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Whilst cruising The Chameleons’ online store looking for things to buy yesterday, I happened upon this listing for a new release – Elevated Living: Live in Manchester, London, and Barcelona – a new CD/DVD set compiling three of their early live shows which have been kicking around as bootleg and unofficial releases for many years. […]
I don’t really buy into including Velocity Girl in the ’90s American shoegaze scene like, say, Lilys or Drop Nineteens. Partly because I like VG much more than those other acts , and also because they pivoted out of their ‘gazey phase pretty quickly in favour of delicious power-pop on their last two records – […]
It seems a bit perverse that I’ve gone, what, more than nine months writing a blog about post-punk and other things, and have yet to make any real mention of Joy Division, arguably one of if not the biggest and most important band of the genre. And that’s kind of why… I couldn’t imagine what […]
For a band so obsessive about the the sonic minutiae of their recordings – Jason Pierce’s attention to detail in the recording and mixing of Spiritualized’s records is legendary – the state of their vinyl catalog has been pretty dismal. Like most of their ’90s-era peers, their early records got only a cursory vinyl pressing […]
A lot going on right now that precludes putting any longer-type posts together for the moment, so I’ll just drop this bit of aural bliss, the title track from Cocteau Twins‘ 1990 masterwork, Heaven Or Las Vegas. Not a bad place to go if you need to chill out and get lost in Elizabeth Fraser’s […]
Yesterday marked the 30th birthday of Slowdive’s debut full-length, Just For A Day, and in looking for something to post in commemoration of the event – I already posted one of the only videos from the record a few months ago – and in doing so I found this interesting artifact dating back to the […]
Throwing caution to the wind, The Psychedelic Furs will embark on a US tour behind last year’s excellent Made Of Rain in a couple weeks. In normaler times, they’d probably have a Toronto date and in moderately abnormal times, I’d consider trekking to the Buffalo show, but as it stands, I’ll just listen to the […]
A couple doses of Gallic psychedelia courtesy of Melody’s Echo Chamber, circa her 2012 self-titled debut. “Some Time Alone, Alone” was the final single from said record, and the accompanying video followed Melody Prochet as she partook in the attractions at the La Habra Citrus Fair in California. The second clip is from her performance […]
While the correct answer to “when would have a better time for the COVID-19 pandemic to hit North America” is obviously “never”, I would have accepted a week or two later than it did, in mid-March. Because if it had held out a little bit, Wire would have been able to continue their North American […]
If you thought that the couple of new singles Montreal’s Men I Trust rolled out over the past year were going to be a preview of their next album, well that’s not an unreasonable assumption as that’s how these things usually work. But Men I Trust don’t really do things the usual way, so neither […]
