Eighties alt-rock bands Love and Rockets and Jane's Addiction have started a North American tour with concerts on Sunday in San Diego and Tuesday in Inglewood.
Diehard Love and Rockets fans' might be interested in bassist David J's triple album collection Tracks from the Attic out now via Independent Project Records. It was originally part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday 2023 offerings. Available formats now include brown 3LP (numbered), 3CD special edition and supreme deluxe edition LP box set. Order here: indepdentprojectrecords.com
The songs were personally chosen by David J. and include solo acoustic guitar demos recorded on audio cassette between 1984-2004. He made some of the recordings on the road and others at home with only a recorder.
“These recordings were never meant for commercial release,“ said David J. “They were merely a form of notation, quick audio sketches rendered to capture arresting ideas as they came to me. Butterflies caught in a jar, if you will…and now they are set free to fly.”
The demos on cassette have been unheard (aside from the ears of their creator and those of the exclusive members of the Patreon site of the same) for decades.
Track Listing:
1. Punishment by Roses
2. The Dream Collector
3. Blackmail
4. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
5. My Soul Was Still Shouting, ‘MORE!’
6. I Wish Those Spacemen Would Come
7. Badge of Lead (A Western)
8. Small Death Of a Broken Doll
9. She Calls the Morning Cruel
10. Lady Bureaux
11. Is There Anybody There?
12. The Wolf Knows
13. Castles of Limburg
14. If Muzak Be the Junk Food of Love
15. Homo Sapien Blues
16. This Town
17. Vincent In the Flames
18. They’ve Murdered Christ Again
19. Lucky Dog
20. Old Man in the Rain
21. Conspiracy of Shadows
22. The Long Ride Home
23. Cruel Britannia
24. All the Pilgrims
25. It’s Got to Be the Angels
26. I’ll Put Off Thinking About You for Awhile
27. Or Do I Speak Too Soon?
28. Oh No! Not Another Songwriter!
29. Diamonds, Black Eyes and Valentines Blues
30. The Most Beautiful Girls in the World
31. Before the Positive Was Negative
32. At Paradise
33. New Year’s Day
34. Leaning Towards the Falls
35. Dying Embers (Bonus Track – Digital Only)
36. The Rattler (Bonus Track – Digital Only)
37. The Wrecking Ball is Coming Down (Bonus Track – Digital Only)
George Paul
