New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love And Rockets Various Artists on Red Colored Vinyl LP + Bonus Blue Colored 7"!
It’s been nearly a quarter of a century since one of the most celebrated, and influential bands of our generation, Love And Rockets formed. In 1985 Daniel Ash (guitars, saxophone, and vocals), David J (bass and vocals) and Kevin Haskins (drums, synthesizers) departed from being gothic rock icons with the highly coveted Bauhaus and merged sparkling new wave disco dust influenced T. Rex boogie, rockabilly, punk, folk, proto-rave, and psychedelia into one big ball of confusion.
So it’s only natural that eventually similar minded multi-facted artists including both legends such as Frank Black, Flaming Lips, Stephen Perkins (Janes Addiction) Dandy Warhols, and newer buzzworthy acts A Place to Bury Strangers, Snowden, War Tapes, and Blaqk Audio pay their respect to a band whom had influenced their style.
In addition to musicians going on record for New Tales To Tell, supergroups were being formed with Dance-techno meets cabaret-goth on “Yin and Yang And The Flowerpot Man”
provided by Halloween Jack, which includes members of Jane’s Addiction (Stephen Perkins), Guns N’ Roses (Gilby Clarke) and Alice Cooper (Eric Dover). While the other supergroup features Puscifer-MJ Keenan (Maynard from Tool/ A Perfect Circle/Puscifer) along with Thomas Froggatt of She Wants Revenge on Bass and Mark Chaussee-formerly of Marilyn Manson-Danzig & Fight performing “Holiday On The Moon” from the album Express.
Influences appear in every art form on New Tales To Tell. Lending his talent is artist Shepard Fairey, who’s most recent work became more widely known in the 2008 United States Presidential Election, specifically his Barack Obama “HOPE” poster. Shepard designed the cover art for this Tribute album.
“We have been knocked out by the response to this. So many of these interpretations are quite inspired. We should have done it like that! — David J (Love And Rockets)
“The creativity and production that has been put in to these tracks is quite impressive. I feel honored that these artists have taken the time to craft such excellent versions and it’s also really interesting to hear contemporary renderings of these songs.” — Kevin Haskins (Love And Rockets)
New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love And Rockets Track Listing
1. Holiday On The Moon — Puscifer (MJ Keenan)
2. No New Tale To Tell – Blaqk Audio
3. Inside The Outside – The Dandy Warhols
4. Mirror People – Monster Magnet vs Adrian Young (feat. Thomas Froggatt of She Wants Revenge)
5. All In My Mind – Black Francis
6. So Alive – Better Than Ezra
7. An American Dream – Film School
8. The Light – A Place To Bury Strangers
Bonus 7"
1. Kundalini Express – The Flaming Lips
2. Judgment Day – 8mm
3. No Words No More – Snowden
4. Lazy – Chantal Claret vs Adrian Young
