New Music Sunday -- The Flaming Lips Cover of Kylie Minogue


After scouring the NME and The Sunday Times I didn't find anything that really caught my eye this week so I'm bringing my readers a cover song. I saw this at Paste Magazine's site and decided that the world couldn't live without seeing this, The Flaming Lips covering the Kylie Minogue dancehall favorite, "Can't Get You Out of My Head."

Enjoy and hopefully next week I'll find some new music to share. SXSW starts in Austin, TX on March 12, so there will lots of new bands to check out and I'm sure that a couple of them will be featured on New Music Sunday.

New Music Sunday -- Chapel Club



Chapel Club - O Maybe I

Chapel Club | MySpace Music Videos


New Music Sunday is a new feature bringing you new bands that have yet to break in the United States. The first band to be featured is a London based band named Chapel Club. The Sunday Times has tipped them to be the next big thing.

First a little history: on June 4, 1976, the Sex Pistols played the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall and in the audience were a unknown local band named Warsaw (school friends Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook) that was looking for a lead singer, an unemployed music fan named Steven Morrissey, producer Martin Hannett, local television personality Tony Wilson and a host of others who may or may not have actually been there. The promoters said that only 100 people attended the show, but if you comb through the biographies of most punk bands of the late '70's and early '80's you find nearly 1,000 people claiming to have been at the show. The show spawned a second on July 20, 1976 when Ian Curtis, a friend of Bernard Sumner, and Johnny Marr saw what their friends had seen almost two months earlier: raw, unbridled rock music that no one had heard before. The shows were the catalyst for the for the Manchester and the greater punk music scene that is still thriving today. Why is this history lesson important? Had Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook run into Steven Morrissey that night rather than wait for Ian Curtis to be available, the history of music would have been dramatically different and the outcome would have been Chapel Club.

Their first single, "O Maybe I," has the patented Peter Hook bass line that instantly recalls Joy Division and a jangly guitar that evokes Johnny Marr and The Smiths. The lyrics are dark and have the proper amount of despair between the choices of settling down into a quiet existence or putting everything to chance for "a perfect night." If you are a fan of Joy Division and The Smiths, then check out Chapel Club. I look forward to hearing more from them during the coming year.