Rolling thread for young whippersnappers using old bands names on Spotify etc

Had a few of these pop up in my Release Radar.

Today it’s a new version of The Jam where it appears Weller has discovered autotune https://open.spotify.com/track/4gyd7RVZdudHH4HPV0AzRO?si=A2xbyyPISfC3LU8m3AZlDA

Lotus Eater have dropped the 's' and want to scream your face off

https://open.spotify.com/track/5PF6OkSF8WsqIqjOyfbO0V?si=9dLcu6ihQmGw5Z0U1H4K3w

https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/ar0/7cefb430458ee3aceb8be16cf86ca87d.jpg

good idea! I run across this all the time but of course now I can't think of any examples

Swedish theater troupe Ghost

currently on my release radar is Australian post-punk outfit Total Control, with their new single We Ready ft Go Gettaz [EXPLICIT]

A few months back, my release radar included an unannounced track from Candy. I was certain it was going to be some Soundcloud rapper, and not the hardcore metal band I had recently been enjoying. To my surprise, it was the same band releasing a new single. I let my guard down. Candy showed up again only about two weeks later -- Of course it was the new single from a Soundcloud rapper with the same name. Grr.

*triplet flow* erryone be makin art

https://i.imgur.com/OqSGb2e.jpg

This was the first thing in my “release radar” playlist today!

T.Rex was mentioned in the other Spotify thread but it's the one that came to mind right away.

I saw a new Spazz EP last week.

I heard Boris sold their guitars and bought a sampler, then started rapping in Spanish

then rose again on the Sunday

There's an even worse Gene than Gene.

Got an email about a metalcore band called Kingsmen. If they don't have a cover of "Louie Louie" in their repertoire I'm going to register a complaint.

my latest Release Radar included tracks by the wrong Moebius, the wrong Rainbow, the wrong Boris, the wrong X, and the wrong Bill Evans

There's an even worse Gene than Gene.

― nashwan

but does he still love jezebel

reggae mike love

i'm kind of fond of italian soft-machine-circa-volume-2 worshippers "the winstons" even if they don't ever whip out the amen break

Pulp & Blur team up
https://open.spotify.com/album/0qYeamz5GwVdA8TFHSI3M4?highlight=spotify:track:2kcp3FTQSE0l2jUtBl4bFG

to be fair britpop pulp just a bunch of johnny come latelys recycling the name of these folks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpZCMOp7kNI

Pretty pissed at how many Bisons there are on Spotify. I'm positive my band was the first.

Fresh new trap instrumentals from Rick James

The vaguely post-grunge band Sponge has apparently pivoted to mid-tempo house techno

L.A. punk legends X shocked fans by dabbling in meandering dorm room EDM

How the fuck did I get three of these in one week?

the boring non-punk X is back on today's Release Radar, but I guess we have to let X = X

the latest entries in the reappropriated name sweepstakes are the wrong Peter Green (fair enough), the wrong Baroness (whatever), and the wrong Talk Talk (really?)

I'm sure name duplication often happens with no ill intention, but "Talk Talk" is an especially egregious example of gaming the system

I’m listening to the fake talk talk as we speak

Only one today of note, Chief Shake with Lil’ Mandigo and Yes.

T-Rex mentioned upthread showed up this morning on my release radar, as did The Beat.

good morning, hip hop R.E.M.

the cover art shows the artist's name as "REM$$" but Release Radar shows it as R.E.M.

Sparks and Suicide showed up for me today.

new Pavement

Y tho

https://toolofficial.bandcamp.com/

This week I have the wrong Chic, the wrong Bent and the wrong Cameo

Only tangentially related but there was a time a million years ago when I was in college and got super excited when I saw flyers for a Helium show up all over campus but then like the day before the show the flyers all suddenly read 'Helium Oxygen' and that was a bummer.

Electric Light Orchestra going hiphop. https://open.spotify.com/track/2M4ycWjc3IrkeTrUcNflJP?si=iSakZZNqTl-Eig7MDv9KRw

I guess all these people are banking on streaming services mislabeling their tracks and accidentally paying them out mucho dinero?

Daniel Johnston posthumously returns as generic synthwave

Saint Etienne a couple of weeks ago, Can collaborating with Turkish rapper Metin Ben today.

ehm... “can” is the Turkish word for “soul”, and is also a very common name (given name as well as surname) - very much doubt they were going for the Holger Czukay vote here.

also:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_(band)

Band name:
The band used the names "Inner Space" and "The Can" before finally settling on "CAN". Liebezeit later suggested the back-formation acronym "Communism, Anarchism, Nihilism" for the band's name, after an English music magazine claimed this was the intended meaning.[10] But Mooney had originally suggested the name due to its positive meanings in various languages.[11] For example, in Turkish, a language much heard in Germany, "can" may mean, depending on the context, "life, soul, heart, spirit, beloved and vitality".[12]

Ahh, wasn’t aware of that. Everyday is a school day etc

all good!

bonus lesson:

Can (Turkish: [dʒan]): Turkish and Azerbaijani use is derived from the Persian word Jan (Persian: جان). In Turkish, the name Can is pronounced like the common English name John.

The wrath of Can

Not enthused by the Indonesian(?) Donald Fagen album which showed up today https://open.spotify.com/album/0YAbFhO0Gto3eud9FPmHoU?si=3HIE2FnCSKSFvcn8CrOSdg

this week Genesis debuted some new soundcloud rap

and Scarface returns but now raps entirely in Korean

Electric Light Orchestra back again and Ramones today.

The Ram Ones

R.E.M. have a new single out called "1956" (its sound is quite a departure for them)

Do bands do this with song titles too? I've had the idea kicking around for years to write an album where every song shares a title with one of the most streamed songs of the moment, just to see how many plays I could get out of it. By now someone must have done it.

I get a lot of recommendations for Lulu. "To Sir With Love" it ain't.

Bumper crop today; Human League, Carpenters and Slade. Had to check that Brian Eno was that Brian Eno.

Also Bent

And Earth

Vivaldi should be pissed with youngsters like Micky & Sylvia and Sam Butera trying to muscle in on his Baroque game

https://open.spotify.com/album/4OyFYLfCxxdZBgp6Nhl03j?si=gJGZo3N_SOm5ojSIUPJezA

The phrase "Concerto for Violin and Strings by Vivaldi and Cousin Leroy" is cracking me up extra hard this morning.

thrilled to discover that Electric Wizard released 9 new albums last week

Crumblin' down slow and easy

wrong thread

Lol

John C. Cale and Nico Nico

Ooh, a new album from Underworld. But who’s Aubrey Cunningham and why is it only 10 minutes long?

just saw an ad for a gig "This Is Lorelei". it's not though, is it?

I dig the modern-era Them (punk-tinged Americana/indie-pop from Seattle). Great verse/pre-chorus/chorus sequence on "Can't Call It Mine"
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kfdAogr8l3SD6QuXtagiv?si=570ea4911ddc41f7

Whereas I do not dig the Netherlands's entry in the Wilco sweepstakes, although they are better than the German version from a few years ago that featured brick-walled vocals over chintzy synths (it wasn't a mislabeled Loose Fur outtake, I checked)
https://open.spotify.com/track/7fuUVvca0IZSzur39NW2R5?