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When I started up this blog I was afraid it’d turn into a kind of Wire fansite, so obsessed was I with exploring their expansive back catalog. Well I’m no less a fan these days, but they do make up a smaller percentage of my overall listening. But that’s no excuse for having not done […]
I spent Saturday night at a local club well past midnight catching a show – something I hadn’t done in many many years, and which my body is reminding me of why – but I didn’t want to miss the chance to catch local dreampop ascendants Tallies again. I had planned to see them way […]
I’ve yet to go fully down the rabbit hole of Japanese shoegaze and dreampop as it is both vast and deep, but if and when I do, it will probably be Toyko quartet yuragi that leads me there. They won me over with their initial short-players – 2016’s Nightlife EP and 2018’s epic mini-album Still […]
At a casual glance of their discography, you might think that Echo & The Bunnymen‘s cover of Television’s “Friction” was a live staple for the band in the ’80s – it certainly seems to appear on a lot of releases, both official and unofficial. But as it turns out, there seems to be only the […]
Dry Cleaning made their name the old fashioned way with a run of critically acclaimed singles and EPs long before dropping an album, and even they’ve graduated to two critically acclaimed full-lengths, they still love the abbreviated formats. Earlier this week, they announced they were coming out with a new extended play in the Swampy […]
I appreciate how the automatic subtitles for this one on YouTube open with “Pensive post-punk music”. Yes, it is. Happy Valentine’s Day from The Cure! The third single from their 1989 opus Disintegration is probably one of their most famous and beloved, and was maybe the first Cure song I ever heard. It remains one […]
Still Corners have undergone a number of transformations over their fifteen-plus years, from a band to a duo, and shifting from cinematic psychedelica to synth-forward dreampop to dusty Americana. I prefer some phases over others, but as they’re always centred around Tessa Murray’s breathy vocals and Greg Hughes’ atmospheric guitarwork, there’s usually something to fit […]
After well over a decade of well-earned retirement, Siouxsie Sioux has announced her return to the stage this year with a smattering of shows in Europe and the US, her first live appearances since participating in Yoko Ono’s Meltdown fest in 2013. Her last proper tour was in support of her first – and last, […]
I guess bloggers grieve with content dumps. While I’ve been marking the passing of Tom Verlaine by constantly collecting and updating my memorial piece – if you’ve not been since Monday, there’s a lot more good stuff there, including tributes from Patti Smith and Dean Wareham – bootleg Tumblr Doom & Gloom From The Tomb […]
A little break from the gloom of winter and late guitar heroes, courtesy of Montreal trio afternoon bike ride. Built on simple beats, gentle guitars, and sumptuous vocals, they’re an aural daydream made for lying in the grass with headphones on, staring at the clouds. Their second album glossover, follow-up to 2021’s self-titled debut, is […]
