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Last week’s contest noticed two of rock’n’roll’s brightest sparks – Greta Van Fleet and The Struts – go head to head in a nail-biting fight for your hearts and votes. Two wonderful tracks, two sides of the Atlantic, dominating the poll involving them. It was a close one particular but in the end it was Greta who triumphed with the Zeppelin-tastic The Falling Sky.
In the meantime The Struts finished just at the rear of in next area, with veterans Sweet coming in 3rd. Congratulations to all a few of them, and to all our shortlisted artists: we assume you are all ace, but there can only be one winner, and that winner this time is the band of brothers from Frankenmuth, Michigan. Here’s the monitor in situation you missed it…
Now, on with this week’s struggle of musical wits, chops and ‘choons. 8 bands, 8 songs, 8 potential winners… get caught in!
Soiled Honey – Will not Get Me Alive
Fresh from their BST set supporting Guns N’ Roses, it is fitting that Filthy Honey’s new track seems like it’s about to turn into Welcome To The Jungle. As with a lot of their new music the imprint of GN’R is quite significantly there (together with a hearty serving of Aerosmith-y bravado), but Will not Consider Me Alive is a full good deal funkier, with a prosperous, dirty tone that retains them sounding basic – without the need of staying exhausted. “Won’t Take Me Away was an instrumental idea I demoed on bass, drums, and guitar at my home studio,” reported guitarist John Notto. “I acquired it to the band, we wrote a new chorus, and it was generally completed that immediately. [Producer] Nick [DiDia] rented some vintage amps and truly assisted me get the raunchy seem and mindset I preferred for the riff.”
Screaming Eagles – Thunder And Lightning
In the year that AC/DC celebrate their 50th anniversary, Northern Ireland’s Screaming Eagles’s newest one feels like an apt addition to our playlists here at Common Rock. Plus it is a total scorcher in its own proper, propelled by the form of driving, catchy-as-f**k riffs, Bon Scott vocals and rib-rumbling bass that’ll shoot your heartrate up ahead of you can say ‘Powerage’. Want more? They’ve got a new album, High Class Rock N Roll, out in Oct. Now we just need someone to adhere ‘em on a tour with Airbourne (that would be a exciting night…).
The Dust Coda – Come The Night time
Just one of the very best music – perhaps the best – from The Dust Coda’s just-introduced album, Loco Paradise, Occur The Evening was penned final calendar year as a tribute to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins. By turns delicate, spine-tingling and absolutely monstrous, it offers you all the band’s components in their most important, brightest forms. Voice, riffs and rhythm, from introspection to total-on raging. If Led Zeppelin’s Ramble On had been revisited with Chris Cornell on the mic, it might have sounded like this. Capture them at in-retailers up and down the place all this week.
Tilly – Finest Break up At any time
Escalating up in a rock-loving household – proper previously mentioned a pub/audio location in Lichfield – Tilly was most likely destined for musical matters. Now 17 and landing in a punchy, poppy position amongst Pink, Avril Lavigne and latter-working day Bring Me The Horizon, she would make an impressively slick, self-confident to start with impression with this debut single. “I struggled for a long time with my identity,” she says. “I knew I was not like other young children at my college. A lot of them would appear at me and feel, ‘She’s weird…’ and that led to me currently being bullied for a whilst. It [Best Breakup Ever] is not just about me it’s about anyone who has experienced a break up of any form that feels like the environment is ending, but it turns out to be the very best thing that could have occurred.”
Royal Republic – Trippin’ The Evening
Royal Republic often convey something extra to the ‘good-time rock’ desk, and this new single is no exception. From the opening caveman ‘huh!’ to the stiletto-stomping defeat and relationship of screamed opening verse, melodic chorus, hard rock fuzz and funky guitar strut, it’s deceptively light, and intelligent in the best way attainable – i.e. without rubbing claimed cleverness in your experience. A pop banger in large apparel. Shiny, sweet and a bit feral. If you’ve liked The Hives’ resurgence of late, and want some extra of the good things (furthermore an acidic twist or two) from Sweden’s other purveyors of extremely-sharp, turbo-party rock’n’roll, glimpse no further more.
Black Stone Cherry – Screamin’ At The Sky
“Much like most BSC songs, the music was prepared initially and it established the tempo,” frontman Chris clarifies, of this pummelling, cathartic blast of fire and experience – full with key-crucial singalong refrain – that opens their upcoming album (also identified as Screamin’ At The Sky, out in September). “We envisioned standing close to a bonfire and just permitting go of every little thing, throwing your problems into the cosmos and allowing them be what they are. It starts off the album off accurately how we wished, appropriate off the bat, in your facial area.” In your face? Mission achieved.
Tempt – Burn up Me Down
Any individual who skipped Def Leppard’s recent stadium operate will most likely obtain some solace in these rising New Yorkers’ model new electrical power ballad. To say it borrows lovingly from that mid-80s superior watermark is an understatement. With heartfelt vocals, twinkly guitar strains refreshing out of Hysteria and major-haired, team-sung choruses, Melt away Me Down couldn’t be far more 80s if it had a upper body-pumping vital change…oh no, hold out, it does. Not tough to think about this going down really perfectly at Madison Square Backyard, when they opened there for Bon Jovi. Find extra on their self-titled album, which is out in August.
Saint Agnes – This Is Not The End
It is normally appealing when a band who excel at uncooked, heavy sounds do some thing stripped again. With the launch of their Bloodsuckers album just all-around the corner, Saint Agnes have carried out just that on this piano-led, bare-bones ode to singer Kitty A Austen’s late mom. A haunting, vulnerable photograph of what remaining broken feels like. “The tune was published and recorded as the pretty last detail on the album at the eleventh hour,” Austen claims. “It’s a tribute to my mother and the depth of my enjoy for her. Then for the online video we recorded a stay piano edition of the track at Rockfield Studios, it was a extremely vulnerable but unique second for us as a band.”