WILD CITY – Yaritza
Similar artists: Rowland S. Howard, Beast of Bourbon, The Black Angels, Black Lips
Genre: Garage Rock
It doesn’t take a lot to make one feel powerless. No special day is needed to feel strange, out of place, and just a little off the pace of all the people doing better than you. If anything, weakness is the default setting of people throughout history.
That’s why, when something can help to change that, it is, naturally, seen as valuable. If that particular thing can also be easily attained or used to one’s will, that’s even better. There’s no reason why millions wouldn’t flock to it.
There’s a certain sound that, for decades, comes out of garages across the world. It’s a song that involves distorted guitars and a kind of nervous energy that, if not harnessed for the right purposes, could easily become destructive.
WILD CITY’s “Yaritza” is a song that is as much a provocation as being punched in the chest. The guitars here aren’t played so much as used to pin the listeners against the wall. But the song’s purpose is not to intimidate. But, ultimately, just like Howard S. Rowland’s music, it’s meant to get you to confront life’s worst aspects so that it can then free you.
https://wildcity.bandcamp.com/track/yaritza
Tom Meighan – Don’t Give In
Similar artists: Kasabian, Oasis, Richard Ashcroft, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Genre: Pop Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
Everyone seems to love a great comeback story. Maybe that’s why people are so mean and judgemental to rock stars when they do something wrong. Maybe it’s just that they really want to see them try really hard to get back up on their feet.
Tom Meighan certainly seems to think so. For more than a decade, Meighan led a post-Oasis assault on arenas worldwide, fronting a group that built its sound on bold, aggressive post-Britpop singles. But he was later dismissed from Kasabian, because of the kind of bad behavior that his bandmates could not ignore.
Tom Meighan uses “Don’t Give In” to assert his role as a rock n’ roll survivor and to tell longtime fans that, no, he will not ditch the Primal Scream and Oasis chestnuts that he’s been roasting for years. The song is rousing, even hopeful. And, whether fans do start belting this out in arenas around the world, it’s nice to hear Meighan’s voice once again.
