The Houston Punk band Mydolls have released a two box CD which features their material from 1978-1986.Consisting of three women and one man, they combined their driving rhythmic sounds with clever and insightful socially aware lyrics infused with feminist observations. This double disc collection features their 1981 3 song 7" EP, 1982 2 song demo, 1982 "Imposter"/"Exorcism" 7", 1983 "Speak Softly, But Carry A Big Stick" 12" EP, 3 song 1983 demo, 1983 track off the "Cottage Cheese From The Lips Of Death" comp LP, 1 song 1984 demo, previously unreleased 3 song 1985/1986 demo, various live cuts from 1981, 1983, and 1984, and an 11 track 1980 demo featuring previouslyunreleased songs along with early versions of songs that were later re recorded. 24 page booklet includes a detailed band history as well as photos and lyrics.

This is a very special interview with Trish Herrera, the creator of the band Mydolls, done for the Burning Flame Blog.

1.Something I'm always curious about is how the bands got their name, so how did you come to the name Mydolls?

TH:Mydolls and Really Red were at an Indian restaurant eating marvelous food and drinking Pim's cups here in Houston and there was a popular band called Heart , so we thought "Hey, how about Ovary? and then some one said "Mydolls" like the pill for menstrual cramps. So there is was, with a different spelling. I heard there is also a house wife band called My Dolls and also a doll for children called My Dolls.

2.What bands or musicians from the era do you keep in touch?

TH: Really Red, Butthole Surfers, Dicks, Culturcide, the Hates, Party Owls, AK47, Gretchen Phillips Meat Joy, Legionnaires Disease many others... We are still family after all these years.

3.Do you play the summer festivals?

TH:No, we don't regularly play any more. As you know we disbanded in 1986 Except for special occasion. We played for Phil Davis, our sound man's funeral/wake and we are planning to play for a 30 year reunion of the local punk club that started here in 1978, The Island/Rock Island.

4.Is your music in any way related to any band that is present today. What new band do you see as the reincarnation of the sound of Mydolls?

TH:We were so all over the map with our sound. I could not pigeon hole any one band into how we sounded. I support new sounds, new creations . This is what we did in the 80's and we want to see more women up front playing music, creating new sounds and saying some thing.

5.What do you consider as the New wave/punk/ post punk anthem?

TH:I think that is different for everyone. For me it is, Let's Have a War, by Fear. It makes fun of idiots who want war. It pertains to the world crisis as it is now. Until war stops, that is my personal anthem.

6.'A World of Her Own' is a record that features old Mydolls song remastered. Who was the record produced by?

TH:The CD came out on May 17, 2008 It is called 'A World of Her Own'. It is on Grand Theft Audio CD includes 2 CDs and a 24 page booklet of all of the songs plus photos, flyers and lyrics 2008 You can buy it at www.bompstore.com or www.soundideadistribution.com

7. Do you also plan to record new material?

TH:We are actually working on a song called Don't Fucking Die for our guitarist, Linda, who suffered breast cancer two years ago and beat it.

8.Are you trying to expose your music to younger fans?

TH:No, but younger fans find us. I think because we are part of what formed the genre "Punk"

9.What do you listen to these days?

TH:Dengue Fever, Radiohead, Kimya Dawson, Irma Thomas (old New Orleans music), ColdPlay, Dixie Chicks, Peter Gabriel (Big Blue Ball is amazing), Joanna Newsome, Holly Go Lightly, Bruce Springsteen's Magic that came out this year, Deathcab for Cutie, sometimes Kirsten Hirsch, or Buena Vista Social Club. I'm all over the map. I love all genres of music.
My two Golden Retrievers listen to classical radio when I am out.

10.What do you miss in today's music?

TH:I miss that people buy music off of the internet and we don't congregate in music stores feeling the wax in our hands any more.

11.What band would you like to see reunited?

TH:The Raincoats

12.Did you listen to the new Bauhaus record released this year?

TH:No, I didn't But I used to love them Bela Lugosi was so cool. I used to love Love and Rockets too.

13.Do you buy music records? What was the last record you bought?

TH:New REM New B-52s., Peter Gabriel's Big Blue Ball. I was having a retro month last month.

14.Finally, your favorite Saturday night and Sunday morning records?

TH:Saturday night, I love Billie Holiday and I love French movies. Sunday morning, I love Blues. We have a great radio station KPFT Pacifica here that has the most fantastic blues show on Sunday morning and I always turn it on.

Here is a descriptive review of Mydolls.

Mydolls' 'World of Her Own' Review

'Modern Guilt' is the title of the eighth studio album by American musician Beck. It will be released on July 8, 2008 (his 38th birthday). The album will fulfill Beck's recording contract with Interscope Records, while outside of North America, the record will be released by XL Recordings.'Modern Guilt' features two contributions by Cat Power and is produced by Danger Mouse.

1.Orphans"(featuring Cat Power)
2.Gamma Ray
3.Chemtrails
4.Modern Guilt
5.Youthless
6.Walls(featuring Cat Power)
7.Replica
8.Soul of a Man
9.Profanity Prayers
10.Volcano

The memorial to the Joy Division frontman was taken from Macclesfield's cemetery. The headstone is visited by thousands of fans every year, paying their respects to the singer who committed suicide in 1980.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the stone's theft as there are no CCTV cameras in the area.

www.nme.com/news/joy-division

'Beautiful Future' is Primal Scream’s ninth studio album and their first for B-Unique. The album was produced by Björn Yttling [Peter, Björn and John] and Paul Epworth (Bloc Party)The first single "Can’t Go Back" was released on July 14th.
The album features guest collaborations from Lovefoxx of CSS, Josh Homme from Queens Of the Stone Age and folk legend Linda Thompson. As you would expect from one of Britain’s most exciting and inventive bands 'Beautiful Future' displays a heady mix of genre crunching taking in Philly soul, dark electro, accelerated rock'n'roll riffs and pure British pop all given that particular Scream edge.

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Watch the video here



1.Beautiful Future
2.Can't Go Back
3.Uptown
4.Glory of Love
5.Suicide Bomb
6.Beautiful Summer
7.Zombie Man
8.I Love to Hurt
9.Over and Over
10 Viva Necro Hex Blues

Lorraine are Ole Gunnar Gundersen (26, vocals), Anders Winsents (26, guitar) and Paal Myran Haaland (25, keyboards, programming). Between them the members’ personal influences range from New Order, Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode to Kasabian, The Smiths and The Stone Roses, so it’s no surprise that Lorraine’s own music sounds like it should come with ‘Your new favourite band’ stamped across every CD.

We’re a bit 1985 and we’re a bit 2020, we keep going back and we keep moving forward. We’re like everything you have heard, and everything you have never heard.–Lorraine

www.lorrainemusic.co.uk
www.myspace.com/lorrainemusic

The first thing you would think about when you hear R.E.M. is Michael Stipe's popular group. Not here! This is actually an (Italian?) group with the same name and a group which only released this single back in 1983 on Xanadu records. The song features great electronica with some vocoder inputs.

So this would be the 50th Instant Hit.
Enjoy it!!

R.E.M.- Computer Communication

'Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust', English: "With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly" is the upcoming fifth full-length studio album by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós, to be released on June 23, 2008.It is the band's first album to feature a track sung in English "All Alright". The first track on the album, "Gobbledigook", premiered on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show in the UK on May 27th, 2008, and is now available for free download from the band's official media website. "Festival" was premiered on Colin Murray's Radio 1 show on June 3rd, 2008.

1.Gobbledigook
2.Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
3.Góðan daginn
4.Við spilum endalaust
5.Festival
6.Með suð í eyrum
7.Ára bátur
8.Illgresi
9.Fljótavík
10.Straumnes
11.All alright

John Foxx is the stage name of an English musician Dennis Leigh. Originally he was the lead singer of the first Ultravox lineup, before starting a solo career in 1979. Primarly associated with synthesizer music, he also pursued a parallel career in graphic design and education.

John Foxx began early to experiment with tape recorders and synthesizers. In 1973 he formed a band that would eventually be called Tiger Lily. The band played frequently around London in the mid seventies. After few name changes Tiger Lily was transformed in Ultravox! with an exclamation mark. Ultravox released three albums with Foxx as the lead singer including 'System of Romance', often regarded as the first synth pop album. In the beginning of 1979 Ultravox was dropped by their record label and the band came to parting of the ways during their tour. John announced his plan to go solo.

“The band thing is a phase – like being in a gang. You can’t really be part of a gang all your life; it begins to feel undignified and it stunts your growth, unless you want to be a teenager forever. Some do. Some don’t. The benefits were the Gestalt - where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, a very powerful experience - and working in a closed society with people who have the same aim”.Foxx for barcodezine.com

After signing to Virgin Records Foxx achieved minor chart success with his first solo single“Underpass”. This single was the third track on Foxx' all-synthetic sounding debut album 'Metamatic', released in the same year. The next LP 'Garden' followed in 1981 and this recording saw a departure of the electronic sound we were used to listen to on 'Metamatic'. 'Garden' was bearing a greater resemblance to Foxx' swansong with Ultravox' 'System of Romance'. The Garden's starting point was in fact a song called "Systems of Romance", written by Foxx for the earlier album but not released at the time. His third solo album 'In Mysterious Ways' was released in1985 and it did not bring any commercial success and neither did it bring any progression in the music of John Foxx. Compared to the career of the new Ultravox, Foxx' career always remained in shadows. After 'In Mysterious Ways', Foxx gave up his public career in pop music. He sold his recording studio and returned to his earlier work as graphic artist, working under his original name.

In the early 90's Foxx made some brief appearances in the music scene by doing some collaborations and writing music for computer games. In 1997 Foxx made a return to the music scene with the simultaneous release of two albums, 'Shifting City' and 'Cathedral Oceans'. 'Shifting City' was a collaboration with Manchester's Louis Gordon, an updated stylistic return to Foxx' Metamatic synth pop sound that also displayed the influence of 1990s underground dance music and the 'triphop' style. 'Cathedral Oceans', on the other hand, was a solo John Foxx record, an ambient return to his Catholic youth and his love of the cathedrals of England and Europe. Its roots included traditional evensong, Gregorian Chant, Brian Eno, Harold Budd, and German band Cluster.

In April 2005 Foxx guested on Finnish DJ Jori Hulkkonen's album 'Dualizm', where he provided vocals for "Dislocated" which Hulkkonen had written especially for him. Two years later, in December 2007, Foxx exhibited some of his photographic works in an exhibition called Cinemascope at the Coningsby Gallery in West London. The works were part of three collections, "Grey Suit Music", "Tiny Colour Movies" and "Cathedral Oceans".

John Foxx- No-One Driving

John Foxx- Like A Miracle

John Foxx- Stars On Fire

More info:

John Foxx Interview
John Foxx Videos
Matamatic, the official site of John Foxx

"The Devil, You + Me" is the sixth studio album by German pop-electronic outfit The Notwist. It was released on 2 May 2008 in Europe and 17 June 2008 in the United States. The album contains eleven 11 tracks and features collaborations with the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra. The first single will be "Where in This World" and a promo video has been released to the media.

1.Good Lies
2.Where in This World
3.Gloomy Planets
4.Alphabet
5.The Devil, You + Me
6.Gravity
7.Sleep
8.On Planet Off
9.Boneless
10.Hands on Us
11.Gone Gone Gone