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I have Sonic Cathedral’s 1991: The Year Shoegaze Broke rolling blog for inspiring this post, because without their March 25 entry, I never would have known that my favourite Ride release actually had an accompanying VHS/Laserdisc release and that all four songs on it had an accompanying video. The EP itself is long out of […]
Like many of their ’90s-era brethren, Swervedriver are a band who know their way around a b-side. Indeed, some of their most fan-favourite cuts don’t even appear on their studio albums, and are hard to lay ears on. And so it was a pretty big deal, if a quietly-announced one, that at the end of […]
It’s not unreasonable to assume that a chart-topping single – even on the UK indie charts – in 1985 would have a video, given it was the MTV era. However if you were to go looking for the clip for “Primitive Painters”, Felt‘s luminous chart-topper from 1985’s Ignite The Seven Cannons, built on Maurice Deebank’s […]
For the third part in my “listen to Lowly” series, I’ll not post another of the advance singles from their latest album, 2019’s Hifalutin. Instead, I’ll share the three gorgeous short films – ‘video’ seems so insufficient – they released to go with it. The Danish band’s third record shed some of the immediacy of […]
It’s quite a thing for a single song to be given credit for creating not just a musical genre, but an entire subculture but these are things that are attributed to Bauhaus’ 1979 debut single, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”, aka the song which begat goth. PopMatters ran a piece on the song’s importance and influence on […]
I’m very disappointed in myself that at almost four months into running this blog, I’ve only had one post dedicated to The Chameleons; after all, my ongoing obsession with the band was one of the factors that made me want to start blogging again. And so, here’s one of the choicest bits of Chameleons content […]
The head of Jason Pierce must be an interesting place to be, on many levels, particularly when it comes to his approach to crafting Spiritualized records. In 2016, Sound On Sound took a deep dive into the band’s landmark 1997 album Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space with a specific focus on the […]
I don’t recall exactly what it was that endeared me to It Hugs Back at first. It might have been the lo-fi fuzzy bounce of the lead single from their 2009 debut album Inside Your Guitar, or the fact that 4AD sent it to me as a 7″ single. Yes, vinyl is a shortcut to […]
I’ve seen and shot a lot of live music photographs, but this photo of Siouxsie & The Banshees on stage in Sweden in 1982, shot by Jill Furmanovsky through John McGeoch’s Yamaha SG 1000, just stopped me in my tracks. Breathtaking. “The live silhouette shot was taken at around 9pm just as the band came […]
Part of the rollout for Mogwai’s latest album As The Love Continues back in February was Stuart Braithwaite, Barry Burns, and band’s account live-tweeting a playthrough of the record on Tim’s Twitter Listening Party the night before the album was certified as their first #1 record in the UK. Not a bad way to celebrate […]
