The Weekend Showcase 3.14 edition features 52 songs by artists from 13 countries. To learn more about who's on this playlist, see the link below.

http://therevue.ca/2017/04/15/weekend-showcase-3-14/

Weekend Showcase 3.14

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TRACK 03 Peaking Lights - The Fifth State Of Consciousness

All songs Indra Dunis & Aaron Coyes
Recorded & Produced by Aaron Coyes at Dreamfuzz
Mastered by Sonic Boom at New Atlantis

2017

The Fifth State Of Consciousness

Everytime I See The Light

PEAKING LIGHTS  03  EVERYTIME I SEE THE LIGHT

Half Believing

Hampshire psychedelic shoegaze trio Is Bliss continue to cause a stir with the release of new EP ‘The Honeycomb Explosion’, released 19th May on celebrated label, Club AC30. 

Having received rave reviews for last year’s debut release ‘Velvet Dreams’, produced by Pat Collier (The House of Love, Primal Scream, Swervedriver), the band’s rise has been swift having formed in late 2015. The band were soon signed by acclaimed London based independent record label Club AC30, a label that has a habit of developing artists from the psych/gaze/electronic & dream-pop genres including such acts as Pinkshiunyultrablast, Ringo Deathstarr and Flyying Colours.

With a shared love of Slowdive, Spacemen 3 and Verve, Is Bliss’s first year has seen the band turn heads with their explosive live shows and have supported the likes of Wolf Alice, Telescopes, Nine Black Alps, Mark Gardener and Robin Guthrie in a whirlwind twelve months. The band have also received radio support from the likes of Lauren Laverne, Tom Ravenscroft and Radcliffe & Maconie at BBC Radio 6 Music along with BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. 

Building on the success of the band’s debut, ‘The Honeycomb Explosion’ opens with the soporific ‘Someone’ that echoes The Warlocks before giving way to effervescent guitars and wig-out drums.

‘Alive (Baby Come On)’ hypnotizes and mesmerises in equal measure, providing a heavy dose of visceral sound; a spaced-out sonic groove as Stuart pleads ‘I can’t satisfy your love’, to a backdrop of deafening feedback guitar. 

The dreampop of ‘Into A Dream’ glitters 60s-like with guitars that turn into waterfalls of sitar and full on, psych induced vibrations before the mystical and magical ‘Tomorrow’ is a trip into the unknown conjuring up a drug-induced utopia.

The EP closes with ‘Inner Soul’, a hazy, mind-altering trip with Stuart’s vocals immersed under a wall of reverb and fuzzed-up guitars, his vague poetry only adding to the atmosphere of the EP throughout. 

With a support slot lined up with The Jesus and Mary Chain in April plus more live dates and festivals across the UK and Europe throughout 2017, the band’s heavily anticipated debut long player is pencilled in for release later in the year.

Is Bliss are Jimmy Stuart (vox, guitar), Dean Edwards (bass) and Sam Speakman (drums).

Tour dates:

APRIL
Sat 1st		BOURNEMOUTH		O2 Academy w/Jesus & Mary Chain 
Fri 7th		LONDON		Sebright Arms
Wed 12th	BRIGHTON		Hope & Ruin
Sun 16th		BRISTOL		Crofters Rights (Bristol Psych Festival)
Sat 22nd		SOUTHSEA		Record Store Day
MAY
Wed 17th	LONDON		The Islington w/Flying Colours
Thur 18th	LEICESTER		The Cookie w/Flying Colours
Sat 20th		BRIGHTON		Acid Box, Great Escape Festival w/Flying Colours

The Honeycomb Explosion

Is Bliss - Into A Dream

Rocky Horror

Wy - Bathrooms released worldwide april 12 by Hybris

Spotify: http://po.st/wybathrooms

Preserving their sound, but in a well-groomed manner, the first single "Bathrooms" - from their upcoming album - surely will touch some of your inner areas that you might have forgotten about.

www.facebook.com/wearewy
www.hybr.is

Wy - Bathrooms

In today’s uncertain times, Ceiling Demons’ latest release, March Forward, couldn’t come around at a better time, with its heartfelt lyricism speaking volumes for the power of perseverance.

Since the release of their experimental EP, Belly of the Hopeless – and the standalone split 7", Lost the Way, via singles club Come Play With Me – in late 2016, Ceiling Demons have been crafting a fresh body of work, to be released later in the year via Durham-based DIY label: Win Big Records.

Driven by the warm sound of brass, March Forward marks the transition of the seasons as the death of winter is reborn into spring. The track features on NARC Magazine’s 11th Birthday compilation and sees twin brother duo Psy Ceiling and Dan Demon go through an emotive journey of loss and acceptance. Recognition of our own mortality and inner struggles is interspersed with an uplifting message which, ultimately, offers a sense of hope.

Produced by George Ruston, with guitar from Chris Shaw and live drums by Sam Reed.

March Forward is available digitally on 28th April 2017
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6NtuwAa3Qmb0hKPmKtJIH7

NARC. Compilation #11
https://narcmagazine.bandcamp.com/album/narc-compilation-11

Lyrics:
Rise again to another day,
To another life in another cage
The church bells ring and call your name
Lured into the fire like a moth to a flame.
Catch a light and see the skies ablaze,
We kept it lit during the darkest days.
The winter came and claimed our mates,
But we survived to praise the brave.
Return to Grace,
Cast down our ropes and blades,
The battle is over the top so make a change,
Stand up and be counted for in this game.
Negativity will be slain and replaced with a plus.
This is how we walk and every step is moving us up.
Follow the lights and rise above,
The ceiling cracked with light and love.

Feel this light and love

Heading towards the sound of horns,
We’ve grown so sore from hearts now torn.
Bottled in a storm, this is unlike before
But we march forward.
Born from the barrel of a gun,
Shoot the feeling and the sun.
Who will solider on and who will die young?
Fathers, like their sons but who has the problems?
Are there solutions? Stability then ruined.
There’s a weight upon our chests that also weighs upon our heads.
Mask the stress, smoke cigarettes.
Live today like you are dead
But pay respects to the friends that passed you by and made amends.
A white rose in a flower bed.
Solider on until the end...

March Forward

"On The Level" is from Mac DeMarco's forthcoming album, This Old Dog, out May 5th, 2017, on Captured Tracks. All iTunes pre-orders come with Instrumentals of This Old Dog and instant grat downloads of lead singles, “My Old Man,” “This Old Dog,” and "On the Level."

Pre-Order Digital here: smarturl.it/thisolddog
Pre-Order Physical here: www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/this-old-dog

This Old Dog

Mac DeMarco // On The Level

**aloric // It Doesn't Matter (Official Lyric Video)**: https://youtu.be/hXkJuJ6GPGg

Written, arranged, performed*, recorded, produced, mixed & mastered by aloric. (*except saxophone, by Juliet D. Rondeau)

Press:
"Pure talent; from the vocal ranges to the production and composition...a sublime new track" ~TheRevue

"Provides a haunting isolation which chills to the marrow-bone of the listener" ~EmergingIndieBands

Website: https://aloric.wixsite.com/aloric
Available for download at: http://aloric.bandcamp.com
Merchandise: http://aloric.bigcartel.com
Facebook: facebook.com/aloricband
Twitter: twitter.com/aloricband
YouTube: youtube.com/aloricband
Instagram: instagram.com/aloricband
Contact: aloricband@gmail.com

#MeetKharon

aloric

It Doesn't Matter

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I wore the dress I just bought for you, with the green hat, you thought - you thought was cool.

this night summer was in the air - gin tonic shot our hearts 

It´s a T.. it´s a T..
It´s the light which lights our way so we don´t miss a spot

I cried oceans for you
I cried rivers
they lead to nowhere they just made me shiver

they lead to nowhere

with time, winter came
for restless hearts, there is just pain
I stood on this hill, trying to keep still
I remember I was surprised, cause I´ve found paradise.

I still walk
I keep walking
I still fall 
I still fall -  for you


PROD. BY GEORG RAQUET

OLYMP

Dark Mountain is the first official single from our upcoming autumn album The Directory, set to be released on October 1st 2017.

Check out the music video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWREpoanOoY&t

Music & Lyrics by Silent Runners


DARK MOUNTAIN - LYRICS
And all the brightest minds
Their work amounts to nothing
A fleeting chance for breaking through 

And all the wasted years
A minor change for nothing 
Though you will turn a blind eye

We can’t be fed by fear
We will be left with nothing
The world ain’t ours to run aground

These are words to heed
I know they count for something
Though you will turn a blind eye
Wiped out as we stand by
Wiped out as we stand by
Wiped out as we stand by
Wiped out as we stand by

The Directory

Dark Mountain

Dark Mountain (Single Version)

Saint Etienne - Magpie Eyes

A Love That Don't Diminish

Produced by Clifford John Usher
Photo by Edric Chen

Poison

From POLIÇA's upcoming "Lipstick Stains" / "Still Counts" double single featuring Boys Noize and Spank Rock. Digitally available 4/11/17 with limited Record Store Day 7" on 4/22/17.

"Lipstick Stains" features guest production by Boys Noize
Cover photo by Alexa Horochowski

POLIÇA - "Lipstick Stains" (ft. Boys Noize)

From the self-titled EP, out now via PLAG Records

Written and recorded by DRÆMINGS
Produced and mixed by Thorson
Mastered by John Greenham

Buy on iTunes: bit.ly/DraemEPiTunes
Stream on Spotify: bit.ly/DraemEPSpotify
Vinyl/CD: bit.ly/DraemMerch

More DRÆMINGS:
www.draemings.com 
www.facebook.com/draemings
www.twitter.com/draemings
www.instagram.com/draemings
www.youtube.com/draemingsofficial

DRÆMINGS

Buy on iTunes

Great Escape

JOSEPH OF MERCURY

Find You Inside

SUNNY

Our man has fallen for a lady of the night named Sunny and he thinks he can take care of her, save her from men who puzzle her existence and all the rest of that Roxanne bullshit. However as the song goes on our boy's initial confidence and certitude begins to wane and he can't save himself from the very crime he wants to save her from. His care turns into lust, his lust turns into naivety and his naivety is used in question against her on whether she actually wants to be saved. Questions of love, questions of time; he then looks at his own place in the world. This is Sunny.

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Lyrics:

Put on something different for me
Lying with your mind disarms, but won’t make me leave
Your wondrous eyes tell me the things that you hold so deep 
I’ll tell you where the sun looks better
I can’t believe we’re wasting it
Put on something different for me
Tell your boy I’ll pay the fifteen

I know the games of chance that you play at night
Your fingertips amidst the moonlight
Does a man go make you feel, Sun?
What makes you think you gotta be like that?
Why you on the floor?
I was talking to myself
Ways that I imagine you
Oh I’m such a little boy
Telling you I’m the man 
Makes me stay up late at night

Would you want somebody to love you?
Would you want somebody to dare?
Would you want somebody to hurt you?
Do you even think that you’d care?
Would you want somebody to be the man
Would you want somebody who could tell you how this ends?
Would you pretend?

Take me, take me baby boy
Put on something different for me
I’ll tell you what to do babe, baby
Worry no more, no more

Do you ever feel like you’re the fool?
Pantomiming as your mind disowns you
As you undress yourself in the corner of a hotel room
I’m mumbling words that I could say to you
About where you are in all your dreams
(He likes to tell you it’s real)
Or your curves beneath those midnight seams
(He longs to know what to do)
As the sun shines upon yesterday
(He wonders how he should feel)
I’ve lost myself somewhere in between

Millions of miles above
Visions of days now gone
My baby, are we lost forever or here right now?
Minds unborn or fated somehow?
Am I supposed to bare you my heart
Sure as sun lights up the day?

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'DIY, R&B music infused with Folk, Soul, Rock, Jazz and whatever sound that seems appropriate at the time to tell tales of the human condition. Once a purist of seventies singer-songwriter soul searching, and now a stranger in a dark room writing, producing and making weird noises on a laptop. Formerly the lead man of ‘Wild Rossa And The ’88’, LAPP is now attempting to do a Zayn, form his very own one man wolf pack and see how many fellow weirdos he can find along the way who, hopefully, might dig the tunes as well.'

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SUNNY © - LAPP
Song written, recorded, produced and performed by LAPP
Song mastered by Andy Fernihough in Crash Studios, Liverpool
Bass Guitar: Sam Weston
Saxophone: Luke Ledger

lappxmusic@gmail.com
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SUNNY

Lights Out

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