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A Weekly Shot Of Newcomers And Young Guns - hand-picked with love & care by SDEP.com (available on all services).

Fight back the Black Friday shopping spree with a gang of Black Something bands - hand-picked with love & care by SDEP.com (avail. thru https://sdep.biglink.to/BlackFriday).

SDEP.com is 25 years old!
And we're celebrating with a SDEP Essentials Playlist, compiling over a hundred iconic tracks from that time span.
(available on all services)

SDEP.com's Tribute Playlist to the late Charlie Watts - Rest In Peace

19 non Rolling Stones tracks featuring M. Watts on Drums, or as songwriter.

Hear the playlist on Spotify or Deezer

" I just wanna go back to LA...."

HELLUVAH shares new video for "Whisper" (off her latest "Lonely Riots" album)

"Lonely Riots", Helluvah's new album, addresses the matter of relationship break-up, the kind of one that makes you shatter, jump into the void, that makes you want to burn down everything, out of despair, rage, excesses... but that you live alone, inside yourself. Like riots, but alone.
From a musical point of view: BobX, who has been producing her albums since the very beginning, and who plays with Helluvah on stage, suggested to cover a song from The Cure ("A Forest") in concert. It made him want to play dark tracks, with fast tempos, to put guitars as much furious ("Different Now", "Destroy", "Everywhere You Go") as more crystalline ("Whisper").

At the same time, after having written a track in French on the previous record ("La Fête"), released another track in French in the winter of 2019 ("La Côte d'Azur"), Helluvah wanted to keep on exploring this path, from which emerged "Soleil noir" and "Mon cœur est parti à la guerre". But for French penned songs, Helluvah is attracted to a more pop, more electronic form, it's not rock strictly speaking, even if there are loud guitars.
This desire for rock and more pop forms converges with tracks that mix a little bit of both, like "Sex in the club", "I know I know", "Hysterical".

Helluvah has played in a dozen of countries (USA, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Lithuania...), at the Festival Les Femmes S'en Mêlent (Paris), and opened for Shaka Ponk, Ayo, Asa, Moriarty, Ann Pierlé, etc....

Her music has been featured or reviewed on Libération, France Culture, Télérama Sortir, les Inrocks, Tsugi, Radio Nova, Radio Néo, Ferarock radios, Longueur D'Ondes, Têtu, Magic...

"Soleil Noir", second single from Helluvah, off the upcoming "Lonely Riots" album (due Octobre '20).

stream/download available on all services

Tribute Playlist to the Late Little Richard - Rest In Peace

C'est en ce 13 avril, lundi de pâques, ironie du calendrier, que nous observons un sensible ralentissement du nombre de cas confirmés de COVID19 en France.

La courbe tracée d'après les données communiquées par Santé Publique France commence à esquisser la tendance d'une magnifique courbe de Gauss, laissant supposer que nous rapprochons d'un point de bascule à partir duquel nous pourrons voir décroître le nombre de malades du désormais tristement célèbre Coronavirus.

Perspective optimiste, certes, mais qui laisse supposer, si la cloche gaussienne est respectée, que nous ne sommes pas encore au milieu de l'épisode, faute d'en avoir encore atteint le sommet.

De plus, le rassurant ralentissement de la progression n'est pas le résultat d'une intervention providentielle ou divine, mais bien le fruit des efforts de confinement et de respect des gestes barrière.

Aussi, si nous voulons bientôt voir cette courbe emprunter une pente descente, il ne reste qu'un seul et même effort à produire : restez chez vous !

Source des données présentées :

https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/maladies-et-traumatismes/maladies-et-infections-respiratoires/infection-a-coronavirus/articles/infection-au-nouveau-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-covid-19-france-et-monde

Quality Holiday Season Music - hand-picked with love & care by SDEP.com (avail. thru Soundsgood).

New single from Helluvah!

La Côte d'Azur, available now on all services.

SDEP.com's 2019 Yearly Playlist Recap - hand-picked with love & care by SDEP.com (avail. thru Soundsgood).

Fresh tunes for fighting back the September blues - hand-picked with love & care by SDEP.com (avail. thru Soundsgood).

Spacy tunes for getting the most out of July '19 Man on the Moon celebration - hand-picked with love & care by SDEP.com (avail. thru Soundsgood).

Hot tunes for getting the most out of overheated June '19 - hand-picked with love & care by SDEP.com (avail. thru Soundsgood).