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Let’s kick of the last week before Christmas with the lowest-hanging of fruit for the season. In December 1993, just a couple months from releasing their major-label debut Four-Calendar Cafe, Cocteau Twins got into the festive spirit with Snow, a two-song EP comprised of covers of Christmas standards, albeit secular ones. A strange choice from […]
Something I realized as I started to watch this video is that despite hearing this song just shy of a million times, I have never seen the video. Maybe not so surprising considering that Elastica’s self-titled debut came out in 1995, when I was in university with no access to cable TV let alone MuchMusic. […]
DVDs are hardly the most collectible things these days – I wager a lot of people don’t have the technology to even play one if they wanted to – but I’ve finally gotten my hands back on one of my most precious digital video discs after a couple years where I almost wrote it off […]
Recordings of Ride’s show at the Town & Country Club in London has long kicked around as one of the definitive early live documents of the band. Recorded on March 7, 1991 while the band were touring their debut album Nowhere, released the previous October, it was broadcast by the BBC in May 1991 and […]
Okay, a final FINAL footnote to the series of Shearwater posts. When the band rolled into the AV Club studios in March 2016, it actually wasn’t to perform the entirety of Lodger, as they did for eventual release. Their intended contribution to the Undercover series was to do this Bauhaus cover which is actually even […]
After years of being unsure if they were still a going concern, there’s been lots going on with The House Of Love of late – some bad, some good. There’s the North American tour that’s currently in limbo as the pandemic continues put a question mark over everything, there’s the new album A State Of […]
We’ll call this a chaser to my previous two posts detailing Shearwater’s stepping into the Thin White Duke’s shoes for a few years; a series of articles detailing frontman Jonathan Meiburg’s deep fascination with all things David Bowie. First off, an essay/review at Talkhouse from March 2013 about Bowie’s penultimate record, The Next Day wherein […]
This year’s Gang Of Four tribute album The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration Of Gang Of Four is a genuine blast, with an A-list of acts managing to be both reverent and reinventive of the source material. One of the highlights, for me, is Warpaint’s take on the opening track of the band’s second album, […]
The Top is not an especially well-regarded Cure record, but if there’s one positive, it’s that the world tour in support of it yielded this live performance at the Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo in October 1984. It was recorded and released as the Live In Japan VHS tape in 1986, the band’s first live […]
As impressive as a live-to-tape recital of Bowie’s Lodger was, it would be only the preamble to Shearwater’s greatest Bowie tribute. And the irony is that, relative to the modern-day benchmark of every bit of media being free to everyone, everywhere, you can’t hear it. The “what” of it was a series of three concerts […]
