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

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