Bloc Party – “Two More Years”

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; […]

DIIV – “Soul-Net”

Brooklyn’s DIIV announced their fourth album Frog In Boiling Water – first since 2019’s Deceiver – last week with the chilled-out dirge “Brown Paper Bag”, but they first previewed the new record way back in October while in the midst of their tour supporting Depeche Mode. They dropped the website soul-net.co, a Geocities-saluting doomscrolling eyesore, […]

Warpaint – “Common Blue”

Happy Valentine’s Day! Warpaint are celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band with this new song, being released as a 7″ – available now – and with an accompanying video that condenses the glitz and glamour of two decades spent on the road spreading gorgeous dreampop across the world down into four minutes. They describe […]

The Cure, live at Primavera Sound, Buenos Aires – November 2023 and São Paolo – December 2023

Last year, The Cure managed the remarkable feat of staging a world tour in support of an album that hadn’t been and still hasn’t been released. It wrapped in South America with an itinerary that included headlining slots at four Primavera Sound festivals, including Buenos Aires, Argentina in late November and São Paolo, Brazil in […]