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In the west, album anniversaries are typically celebrated with a reissue, certainly, and usually some manner of remaster the benefits of which may or not be audible but which will certainly be used to justify a bump in MSRP of said reissue. Occasionally, there’ll be a full remix of the album by someone with credentials […]
Today, The American Analog Set are putting out For Forever, their first album since 2005’s Set Free. The band essentially ended at the end of that year, after touring obligations were done, but they did reconvene a few times after that for one-off performances. The second-last of those was back in March 2009 in Austin, […]
Of all the new musical discoveries I’ve made this year, one that has remained in heavy rotation is St. Petersburg’s Blankenberge, whom I tried to properly celebrate back in June. They actually weren’t entirely new to me as their 2017 debut Radiogaze was brought to my attention by some genre year-end lists. As I recall, […]
Five or six years ago, my overarching mission in life was to acquire copies of Cocteau Twins’ final two albums – 1993’s Four-Calendar Cafe and 1995’s Milk & Kisses – on vinyl. I always like having some sort of record grail search on the go, even if the days of actually being able to spend […]
As one of their signature songs, finding a decent live video of The Chameleons playing “Swamp Thing” shouldn’t be as hard as it is, not including phone clips taken from their just-completed Deja Vu tour with The Mission over the last couple months; those shows were great and it’s wonderful that Mark and Reg are […]
That I’m posting American Analog Set content in 2023 isn’t entirely bewildering – that Numero Group was turning their reissue sights on the Austin dreampop band’s catalog was well known with a box set set for 2024, and a couple of rarities had already quietly surfaced on streaming services in the last few months. But […]
There’s a lot of good stuff in this just-published interview with Andy Bell in the ’90s issue of Guitar World – it covers his whole career from Ride through Hurricane #1 to Oasis, as well as new Happy Mondays spin-off Mantra of the Cosmos – including this bit on Graham Coxon of Blur encouraging him […]
Up and coming London dreampop duo Deary started the year out right, introducing themselves with a lovely Cocteaus-esque single in “Fairground” and they’re looking to close out 2023 on an equally high note, opening up for one of Slowdive’s London shows and scheduling the release of their debut self-titled EP for November 17. Accompanying the […]
If you’re reading this it’s likely you’ve seen Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 film 24 Hour Party People but if you came out of thinking, “I’d like to see the story of Factory Records but with a lot more talking heads and a lot less Steve Coogan”, BBC4 had your back, albeit five years later. Released in […]
Spiritualized have announced the first release in their second wave of the Spaceman Reissue Series, the first series of which covered their first four studio albums in 2021. Amazing Grace, originally released in 2003, has been remastered and recut, and will be out on January 19 of 2024. It’s also billed as a 20th anniversary […]
