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Apple Music really really really wants me to love Drop Nineteens. Every time I’m listening to something ‘gazey and their recommendation algorithm kicks in, nine times out of ten it’s something by the seminal ’90s Boston outfit – either “Kick The Tragedy” or “Winona”, of course. Somehow the software knew that I never listened to […]
To celebrate today’s release of Interplay – Ride’s seventh studio album and third since reuniting – let’s go back to that first reunion tour in 2015, which we fondly call “the fedora era”. the band’s all-classics set from the Best Kept Secret festival at Hilvarenbeek in The Netherlands, professionally shot by 3voor12, just four months […]
A couple of Slowdive items to share as the band wrap their Asian tour in support of everything is alive, and take a breather before hitting the road again later next month for US markets they didn’t cover last Fall. First, a live in-studio with audience show the band recorded in Paris last Fall for […]
Comprised of a pari of married couples, Austin, Texas’ Blushing proudly wear their shoegaze influences on their sleeves and their pedalboards – think a punchier, poppier Lush. They’ve been winning audiences over the course of two records – 2019’s self-title and 2022’s Possessions – and are set to continue doing so with their third album […]
The Cure are re-releasing their 1993 live album Paris today, recorded in October 1992 at Le Zenith at the very edge of the 19th arrondissement . It was their second live record released that year, following Show, but unlike that document there was no accompanying video release, which is a shame because the track list […]
Uchuu Nekoko are a duo from Kanagawa, Japan whose name translates to “Universe Neko”, which should mean “Universe Cat”? Or “Space Cat”? And they could very well be a couple of intergalactic felines named Nemuko Yamanaka and Kano because they’ve opted to keep their identities hidden behind a couple of anime avatars by artist Tomoko […]
We’re two weeks out from the release of Ride’s new album Interplay, which means it’s time for another sneak peak. This time, it’s “Monaco”, which further affirms the new record will be upbeat and synthy and I am here for it. Mark Gardener recently gave an expansive interview to Under The Radar about the coming […]
Here’s one to put on in the background while you do other things – an interview Dean Wareham gave to the Life Of The Record podcast back in 2021 about the making of Luna’s majestic 1995 album Penthouse on the occasion of the album’s 25th anniversary. Well it’s not an interview, really, but 45 minutes […]
Is there a German word for “regrets for missing out on something that you had no idea existed at the time”? Or a Japanese one? Welcome to peak FOMO, a decade-plus ago edition. Specifically, Japanese indie rock legends Kinoko Teikoku and their two Toronto gigs way way way back in May 2014, presented by Next […]
Despite being perfectly timed to do so, I didn’t really participate in the initial wave of hype around the mid-aughts UK post-punk revival, and it remains one of my music blogger regrets because I would come to really love some of those records, not least among them the first Bloc Party record, 2004’s Silent Radar; […]
