Now Hear This: Alex Baker on the best new rock, ambient and electro-punk — Kerrang!
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From electro-soul anthems to go-for-the-throat garage rock: here are this week s essential guitar tracks
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The Velveteers Are Dan Auerbach’s Latest Production
The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach’s latest production comes from Colorado band The Velveteers.
“I instantly dug them,” Auerbach said in a statement. “They’re amazing live, and their videos are so creative. And they just sound so powerful. Any time you doubletrack drums on a record, it’s going to sound so heavy. Then you put that together with this baritone guitar player who is so unique, and it’s so bombastic. There’s nothing like them.”
A taster from the upcoming ‘Nightmare Daydream’ album is ‘Charmer and the Snake’.
Singer and guitarist Demi Demitro recalls writing “Charmer And The Snake” with Auerbach and recording it in the first few takes: “It was sort of a synergy moment where we all got in the room together and just started playing.” Pottersmith adds: “It’s about certain types of older guys in music scenes who think they are charming and all that but are just lizards trying to take adv
Musicians lean on creativity, live streams to engage audiences during pandemic
Posted at 3:20 PM, Jan 19, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-19 16:20:33-05
It has been 10 months since most musicians have been able to perform in front of fans. It has also been that long since any of us could see them live, too.
âOur social scene was through playing shows. It was everything to us,â said Adrian Pottersmith, a member of the band The Velveteers.
Prior to March 2020, you could find Pottersmith in a basement or warehouse around Boulder, Colorado performing. Now, he has had to rely on his two bandmates to formulate ideas to connect with their fans.