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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 […]
I started playing guitar when I was 17, starting out taking a class in high school where 30 dudes sat around a classroom with cheap acoustic guitars trying to follow the teacher as he ran through the chord changes for “American Pie”. I took to it enough to want to borrow the school’s one electric […]
It didn’t make much/any noise at all, but I was pleased to hear this week that Echo & The Bunnymen were doing vinyl reissues of a couple of their 21st century releases – 2001’s Flowers and 2005’s Siberia – on October 1 courtesy of Demon Records, the first wax pressings of both since the limited […]
I’m not a huge podcast guy, but when an hour-long conversation between Mission Of Burma’s Clint Conley and Roger Miller, and Gang Of Four’s Jon King and Hugo Burnham – hosted by Chavez’s Matt Sweeney – comes on your radar, you stop what you’re doing and listen. It’s part of Matador Records’ Revisionist History series, […]
Four years have passed since New Zealand’s Amelia Murray – aka Fazerdaze – released her debut album Morningside, and just a little over three since she cut the promotional duties for the record short in May 2018, citing mental health and needing to focus on writing new material, and locked her socials down. She resurfaced […]
