Elvis Costello & Iggy Pop - No Flag

New Year, pretty quiet with new musical releases so far, so we will stick to 2020 for a while longer.

The English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello released his 31st studio album "Hey Clockface" on 30 October 2020 by Concord Records.

An pretty good release from Mr Costello, a fellow that I do like what his does and somehow he feels a little like the Swedish Thåström in terms that with age he gets better :)

The tune "No Flag" is his impassioned new single from "Hey Clockface", the single arrives accompanied by an animated lyric video which you can check out below.

An according to a statement, the song is fitting for the current frustrations plaguing the world. “No time for this kind of love/No flag waving high above,” Costello sings. “No sign for the dark place that I live/No God for the damn that I don’t give.”

Costello recorded the album in three days with a small jazz combo just before the pandemic, in Helsinki, Finland at Suomenlinnan Studio, which is just a 20-minute ferry ride away from the Finnish capital. “I wanted to go somewhere nobody knew me,” Costello said in a statement. “So, this is ‘The Helsinki Sound.’”

But for today we have a little special, for the canonized rock ‘n’ roll great and masterfully bitchy tune where mr, Costello doesn’t sing the lead vocal. Instead, his fellow quasi-punk hero Iggy Pop sings the song, and he sings it in French, how cool isn't that.

Costello and Pop recently sat down to have a Zoom conversation for Rolling Stone‘s current Musicians On Musicians series. In their conversation, Costello mentions that he meant “No Flag,” the ferociously queasy Hey Clockface single, as an homage to Pop’s old band the Stooges: “That should have been a clue right away. It shared one word and one letter with a famous song of yours "No Fun", but nobody spotted where it was drawing from, because nobody expects me to take a cue from you.”

So enjoy today's tunes for "No Flag"!





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Girls - Die

Girls was an indie rock band from San Francisco, California. The band comprised two key members: Christopher Owens, songwriter and lead singer, and Chet "JR" White, who played bass and produced. Between 2009 - 2012 they released two full-length albums and one EP. In July 2012 Owens announced that he was leaving the band and would continue to record as a solo artist.

Owens was born into the fundamentalist cult Children of God, but absconded at 16 from their community in Slovenia to Amarillo, Texas. It took him years of exploring common technology, hardcore punk and nihilism, among other things, to cope in mainstream society. Upon arriving in San Francisco, Owens met White, a Bay Area native who was raised in Santa Cruz, California. White began recording bands in his parents' garage. Upon meeting, the two developed a strong bond and interest in similar music, as well as a shared background in Punk/Hardcore music. Shortly thereafter Owens and White started recording what was to later be their debut album, titled Album (September 2009).

Father, Son, Holy Ghost is the second and last album, released September 13, 2011. The album was heavily influenced by music from the 1960s and 1970s. Bands that influenced the album's sound included Deep Purple, Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, Beach Boys and Pink Floyd.

Todays tune "Die" is taken from the album "Father, Son, Holy Ghost" and is the hardest song on the album, glorious riffs, howling and slightly vulgar beats, much like I want it. The tune and was influenced by Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well."



Girls live @ Music Box - Hollywood, CA - 12/06/11



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