Available again on vinyl for the first time since its 1998 release, it’s Swervedriver’s 4th album, 99th Dream!

Soon after its initial release, the band broke up and this classic LP was lost to the ages. Now reissued as a proper double LP, with a bonus 4th side of remixes from Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Lush, etc) 99th Dream is back in print.

99th Dream has been remastered and is being re-released as a limited-edition, ‘coke bottle green’ (available on bandcamp), extended double vinyl LP in a gatefold sleeve with three new Alan Moulder remixes! Also available is a red limited-edition.

The official announcement comes tomorrow, on 11/3/2023, and will be available for pre-order. The release date is expected to be Jan. 19, 2024.

https://swervedriver.bandcamp.com/music

Previously released albums may also be available here:

• deepdiscount
• popmarket

Episode 65 of Melting Pot, first broadcast on Get Radio (www.getradio.co.uk) on September 21st 2023, features an interview with Swervedriver’s Adam Franklin.

They premiere 3 songs that will be released in January 2024.

• Bolts of Melody – “5 x 5” (17:37 mark)
• Shake Appeal – ‘Train Train’ (31:31 mark)
• Swervedriver – ‘Why Say Yeah’ (41:28 mark)

Adam talks about the soon to be released 99th Dream reissue and the upcoming new Bolts of Melody album. Planned release date for both is January 2024.

Adam also reveals that J. Mascis plays a guitar solo on a track on the Bolts of Melody album.

Listen to the whole interview here.

11:40 – Adam Franklin interview (part 1)

17:37 – Bolts of Melody – “5 x 5” (new song premiere)

21:04 – Adam Franklin interview (part 2)

31:31 – Shake Appeal – ‘Train Train’ (exclusive)

34:30 – Adam Franklin interview (part 3)

41:28 – Swervedriver – ‘Why Say Yeah’ (deluxe reissue of 99th dream, exclusive)

44:40 – Adam Franklin interview (part 4)

Our friends over at The Big Takeover are premiering a sample track from Adam Franklin’s upcoming 3rd solo album, ‘I Could Sleep For a Thousand Years’. It has the pace and tone of Adam’s previous work with Swervedriver and is less somber.

http://www.bigtakeover.com/news/world-premiere-yesterday-has-gone-forever-by-adam-franklin-bolts-of-melody

While you’re over there, sign up for the The Big Takeover’s brilliant twice-a-year magazine for $20 for 4 issues. Check out what you’ve been missing by glancing at the back issues.

Fire Zuave
Recommended if you like: Of Montreal, The Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel

Grand Atlantic
This song reminds me of so many bands that I can’t grasp one outright. Brit Rock meets mid-90’s grunge.
Recommended if you like: Swervedriver, Stone Temple Pilots

The Mummers

The Howling Bells
Recommended if you like: The Duke Spirit, The Long Blondes, The Joy Formidable, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Doves

National Skyline
Recommended if you like: Hum, Jeremy Enigk

National Skyline was a band formed in Champaign-Urbana, IL, by Jeff Dimpsey of Hum to perform a 45-minute long song he had written. In 1999, Dimpsey and vocalist/guitarist Jeff Garber (Castor) released their self-titled mini-LP on Parasol Records. A live tour that consisted only of Garber, Blacklist/Compound Red guitarist James Minor, re-worked electronic tracks and a blinding, strobe-heavy light show followed. The band promptly signed to Philadelphia’s File 13, but not before contributing an early demo called “Eurorak” to the Parasol Records’ Sweet Sixteen, Volume 2 compilation. Upon tour’s end, Dimpsey and Garber quickly recorded and released their Exit Now EP. Minor was made an official member, and the three convened later that year to write and record their full-length debut, This = Everything. Garber jumped ship shortly after the record’s release, moving to Los Angeles to join the short lived Year Of The Rabbit.

In 2006, Garber leaked information about a new project on the group’s MySpace account, without involvement from Dimpsey or Minor, including the new track “Pack Up,” and launched the group’s homepage – a Byzantine series of clipart images in a Flash animation ending with the eagle logo and the words “FAUX EVIL.”

In early 2007, Garber posted two new songs and a blog entry on the group’s myspace page indicating that a new National Skyline record would be forthcoming.