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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 […]
The 30th anniversary of Ride’s debut Nowhere was technically last October, but Autumn 2020 was hardly a time where anyone anywhere felt like celebrating anything. It’s debatable how good things are a year on, but they’re definitely better, so if they want to treat the record’s 31st birthday as a do-over for the 30th, that’s […]
Boston’s Sweeping Promises didn’t really get to capitalize on the enthusiasm for their 2020 debut Hunger For A Way Out because, well, 2020, but they’re coming out of 2021 with something to get excited about – they’ve signed to Sub Pop and marked the occasion with a new song that may or may not appear […]
As a band more frequently placed in the folk-prog end of the indie rock spectrum, Shearwater‘s David Bowie comparisons don’t go much further than Jonathan Meiburg’s astonishing voice. But circa their 2016 record Jet Plane and Oxbow, they took more direct influence from The Thin White Duke. Political art can be such a tricky thing. […]
Terrific news/non-news at the end of last week that Electrelane – who went on hiatus in 2007 after a few albums of critically-acclaimed but generally underappreciated post-punk in the early part of the aughts – were in the early stages of writing new material for the first time in a decade and a half: I […]
There has been a dearth of Magazine content hereabouts lately; this cannot stand. So let’s have a look/listen to the lead single from the band’s third record – 1980’s The Correct Use Of Soap – which was notable for being the last with founding guitarist John McGeoch as well as being produced by the legendary […]
