Here Comes The Flood
@herecomestheflood.com
I write about music. Covering sonic treats since 2004. Excellent taste. O, and I run a rather good website about John Cale.
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Their music is a throwback to 60s garage rock, seasoned with power pop musings and synths from the heyday of New Wave. The band's new album These Men, These Monsters is a blend of fuzzy lo-fi and Technicolor flourishes.
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He's Dead Jim: These Men, These Monsters
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December 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Their music is a throwback to 60s garage rock, seasoned with power pop musings and synths from the heyday of New Wave. The band's new album These Men, These Monsters is a blend of fuzzy lo-fi and Technicolor flourishes.
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Indie rock bands Kicking Bird and Tercel will be sharing the bill @ Wilson Center in Wilmington, NC on January 16. Singer Tracy Shedd, who is also on their label Fort Lowell Records will spin some records, making it a fine night of guitar driven music.
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Kicking Bird & Tercel: double bill in Wilmington, NC
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December 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Indie rock bands Kicking Bird and Tercel will be sharing the bill @ Wilson Center in Wilmington, NC on January 16. Singer Tracy Shedd, who is also on their label Fort Lowell Records will spin some records, making it a fine night of guitar driven music.
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Californian one-man band Ten Cent Club switches between Tom Waits-alike songs about casual violence, a pastoral instrumental and jazzy late night songs on his debut EP Postcards From The Sun.
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Ten Cent Club: Postcards From The Sun EP
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December 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Californian one-man band Ten Cent Club switches between Tom Waits-alike songs about casual violence, a pastoral instrumental and jazzy late night songs on his debut EP Postcards From The Sun.
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Montreal based quartet The Wesleys have unveiled a video for Magic Wand, a track from their Explosive Device EP.
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The Wesleys: "Magic Wand" video
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December 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Montreal based quartet The Wesleys have unveiled a video for Magic Wand, a track from their Explosive Device EP.
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Welsh synth duo Martyrs made a video for snowglobe, a track from their sno-fi ep of which proceeds the will be donated to Cancer Research UK.
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Martyrs: "snowglobe" video
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December 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Welsh synth duo Martyrs made a video for snowglobe, a track from their sno-fi ep of which proceeds the will be donated to Cancer Research UK.
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Johnny Dowd has announced the release of "Live at the Downstairs". His debut album Wrong Side of Memphis gets an expanded reissue on vinyl, which comes with a bonus LP with "the original Johnny Dowd band doing psychedelic versions of the Wrong Side tunes."
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Johnny Dowd: "Live at the Downstairs" + expanded "Wrong Side of Memphis" reissue
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December 24, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Johnny Dowd has announced the release of "Live at the Downstairs". His debut album Wrong Side of Memphis gets an expanded reissue on vinyl, which comes with a bonus LP with "the original Johnny Dowd band doing psychedelic versions of the Wrong Side tunes."
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As per usual the four Phish shows @ New York City's Madison Square Garden (December 28-31) are offered as pay-per-view webcasts in HD or UltraHD 4K.
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Phish: webcasts of New Year's Run @ Madison Square Garden, NYC
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December 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As per usual the four Phish shows @ New York City's Madison Square Garden (December 28-31) are offered as pay-per-view webcasts in HD or UltraHD 4K.
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Leicester based jangle pop act Shopfires upped the ante on the new single We Could Fall Apart, adding orchestral elements to make the hurt of the lyrics a bit more bearable.
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Shopfires: We Could Fall Apart b/w Always In The Wrong Place
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December 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Leicester based jangle pop act Shopfires upped the ante on the new single We Could Fall Apart, adding orchestral elements to make the hurt of the lyrics a bit more bearable.
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These stripped down versions blow the studio versions out of the water, with the urgency of making it work from the get-go.
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Remy van Kesteren: Live at Concertlab (Unplugged)
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December 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
These stripped down versions blow the studio versions out of the water, with the urgency of making it work from the get-go.
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#remyvankesteren #inconcert
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The Melody Chamber have unveiled a video for This Train, a track from their self-titled debut album: "a collection of melodic post-punk songs that will be embraced by fans of The Smiths, The La's and Echo & the Bunnymen."
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The Melody Chamber: "This Train" video
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December 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Melody Chamber have unveiled a video for This Train, a track from their self-titled debut album: "a collection of melodic post-punk songs that will be embraced by fans of The Smiths, The La's and Echo & the Bunnymen."
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French grunge duo Half Dollar Dog are not in a festive mood on their seasonal single Small Town Xmas. They are loud, they are pissed off and they obviously needed some release from the rampant hypocrisy that is part of Christmas.
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Half Dollar Dog: Small Town Xmas
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December 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
French grunge duo Half Dollar Dog are not in a festive mood on their seasonal single Small Town Xmas. They are loud, they are pissed off and they obviously needed some release from the rampant hypocrisy that is part of Christmas.
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#halfdollardog #review
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Multi-instrumentalists Mike Keneally and Marcelo Radulovich take it slow on Friday, the fifth album of their week day album series. Maybe their minds were already engaged with the looming promise of a relaxing weekend for this one.
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Mike Keneally and Marcelo Radulovich: Friday
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December 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Multi-instrumentalists Mike Keneally and Marcelo Radulovich take it slow on Friday, the fifth album of their week day album series. Maybe their minds were already engaged with the looming promise of a relaxing weekend for this one.
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It wasn't hard coming off technical playing and playing the simplistic eighth notes the Ramones were known for. I'd always listened to jazz drummers, and they played with their wrists, fast like that. So I was able to do it right away.
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Words about music (816): Marky Ramone
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December 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
It wasn't hard coming off technical playing and playing the simplistic eighth notes the Ramones were known for. I'd always listened to jazz drummers, and they played with their wrists, fast like that. So I was able to do it right away.
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Thijs Kuijken's indie folk project I am Oak are playing four shows in the UK to promote the new album Time Drifts.
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#iamoak #inconcert #folk
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I am Oak: UK tour dates
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December 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Thijs Kuijken's indie folk project I am Oak are playing four shows in the UK to promote the new album Time Drifts.
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#iamoak #inconcert #folk
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Rock band Florida were so busy making the guitars on their new single University Dropout Blues sound nasty in a 80s post-glam kind of way that they forgot to take care of the vocals which got buried too deep in the mix.
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Florida: University Dropout Blues
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December 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Rock band Florida were so busy making the guitars on their new single University Dropout Blues sound nasty in a 80s post-glam kind of way that they forgot to take care of the vocals which got buried too deep in the mix.
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San Diego based Mike Mills created a kind of "J'accuse" with No ID. People are fucked when they are not able to proof their identity in a world where privacy and basic protection from the powers that be are in serious jeopardy.
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Reduction in Force: No ID
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December 19, 2025 at 6:47 AM
San Diego based Mike Mills created a kind of "J'accuse" with No ID. People are fucked when they are not able to proof their identity in a world where privacy and basic protection from the powers that be are in serious jeopardy.
www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/redu...
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Singer-songwriter Lexytron has made a video for Stone Cold. Work on the song began a couple of years ago during a stay in Sweden, when she had to walk home at night, after all means of transport had ceased to run, and it was -20℃.
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Lexytron: "Stone Cold" video
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December 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Singer-songwriter Lexytron has made a video for Stone Cold. Work on the song began a couple of years ago during a stay in Sweden, when she had to walk home at night, after all means of transport had ceased to run, and it was -20℃.
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#lexytron
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#lexytron
Patti Smith will play a bunch of shows in Europe next year. There is a gap between the shows in Belgium and Ireland, so don't be surprised about an announcement of a bunch of UK dates in the near future.
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Patti Smith: European tour dates
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December 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Patti Smith will play a bunch of shows in Europe next year. There is a gap between the shows in Belgium and Ireland, so don't be surprised about an announcement of a bunch of UK dates in the near future.
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Gemini for all your alternate lifespans and countries of origin. And generic plain wrong portraits as well.
In case football isn't Gemini's forte, I asked it to show me the key Romantic composers. Liszt was a sprightly 775 years old when he died. Puccini lived backwards, dying 334 years before he was born. Verdi and Brahms were Russian.
December 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Gemini for all your alternate lifespans and countries of origin. And generic plain wrong portraits as well.
His guitar is mixed up front, spewing out a by bevvy of licks and jangling chord changes that will haunt guitar teachers as their pupils will be quizzing them to learn.
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The Elbow Patches: Achingly Familiar
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December 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
His guitar is mixed up front, spewing out a by bevvy of licks and jangling chord changes that will haunt guitar teachers as their pupils will be quizzing them to learn.
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@dunbartunes.bsky.social
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@dunbartunes.bsky.social
They have as grown as musicians, not in "the look mom no hands" kind of way, but they dare to make jump cuts, throw in a few bars of full-on 60s cheesy sci-fi TV theme music or turn the blues inside out (and backwards) when the mood strikes them.
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The Wesleys: Explosive Device
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December 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
They have as grown as musicians, not in "the look mom no hands" kind of way, but they dare to make jump cuts, throw in a few bars of full-on 60s cheesy sci-fi TV theme music or turn the blues inside out (and backwards) when the mood strikes them.
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Beat, the supergroup that bring 80s King Crimson to Europe next year, have added a show in Zamek W Ćmielowie in Poland. Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Tony Levin and Danny Carey will be performing @ Stratocastle on July 17.
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Beat: show in Poland added to European tour
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December 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Beat, the supergroup that bring 80s King Crimson to Europe next year, have added a show in Zamek W Ćmielowie in Poland. Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Tony Levin and Danny Carey will be performing @ Stratocastle on July 17.
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A slow song, looking back on the innocent days when they were young and having a ball messing around in the white stuff was all that was needed to have a great day.
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Martyrs: "snow came down" video
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December 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
A slow song, looking back on the innocent days when they were young and having a ball messing around in the white stuff was all that was needed to have a great day.
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Starting on December 28: HCTF's best of 2025.
28-12: 20-16
29-12: 15-11
30-12: 10-6
31-12: 5-1
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28-12: 20-16
29-12: 15-11
30-12: 10-6
31-12: 5-1
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December 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Starting on December 28: HCTF's best of 2025.
28-12: 20-16
29-12: 15-11
30-12: 10-6
31-12: 5-1
#bestof2025 #music #reviews
28-12: 20-16
29-12: 15-11
30-12: 10-6
31-12: 5-1
#bestof2025 #music #reviews
They have released a lot of music, but until now a hit record has failed to materialize. Maybe Ripped Blue Jeans will make a splash, as it ticks all the boxes of high energy punk with a pop twist: upbeat, deceptively simple lyrics and singalong potential.
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Wasting Time: Ripped Blue Jeans
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December 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
They have released a lot of music, but until now a hit record has failed to materialize. Maybe Ripped Blue Jeans will make a splash, as it ticks all the boxes of high energy punk with a pop twist: upbeat, deceptively simple lyrics and singalong potential.
www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/wast...
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