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So the news is that My Bloody Valentine are back. Not with new material, don’t be silly – those two new records they promised would be done last year are, in fact, not yet recorded, as per the New York Times feature below – but their catalog is back. All their albums are now up […]
While guitar magazines are generally better reading up on artists you already know than discovery, I must thank the UK’s Guitar Magazine for introducing me to New Jersey’s Long Beard via a feature last year that declared Leslie Bear “dream pop’s rising star,” so obviously I had to investigate. The record Guitar was enthusing about […]
The URL for GuitarGeek.com may no longer exist was a meaningful internet entity – it now goes to the YouTube page for some guy who will teach you Led Zeppelin riffs – but in the early days of the web, it was a magical place for guit nerds like myself who were a) unhealthily obsessed […]
Picking up from last month’s “Why Lowly are great” series, a quick look at one of the singles from their 2017 full-length debut Heba. It occurs to me that between this and “Stones In The Water”, I may be misrepresenting the band a bit as these tracks are decidedly more uptempo than much of their […]
As we’ve passed the first anniversary of our ongoing global pandemic, let’s reflect on some of the good things that have come of it – like Tim Burgess’ Tim’s Twitter Listening Parties, which marked its one-year birthday yesterday, accompanied by the news that the online phenomenon will be spawning a book by Burgess come September, […]
I didn’t think this post was going to be as long as it has turned out to be, but I somehow forgot that Catherine Wheel fans are a devoted lot, and so it figures there’d be no shortage of quality versions of the band’s signature song. But that’s cool. This one goes out to my […]
Boston’s Sweeping Promises made a lot of noise with their debut Hunger For A Way Out last Summer, its combination of post-punk nerviness, strong pop hooks, and old-school, lo-fi college rock hitting a lot of peoples’ sweet spot. If you weren’t one of those won over by it, you probably just didn’t hear the record’s […]
I got a promo copy Colossal Youth, the landmark debut album and blueprint for minimalist pop from Cardiff’s Young Marble Giants’, on the occasion of its 2007 release as Colossal Youth & Collected Works and of course, I didn’t listen to it. But I did keep it when many other promos disappeared to who knows […]
Simon was actually more of a folky, Iron & Wine kind of guy but he appreciated all the meats of the musical stew in our household. This mix of three versions of The Cure’s moper – there’s their January 1981 John Peel session, the Faith studio version released in April 1981, and a live version […]
I never use the ‘save’ function in Facebook, so in accidentally doing so this morning I was reminded that I do in fact sometimes use the ‘save’ function in Facebook. And one of the things I saved almost five years ago was this retrospective feature at 4AD by Facing The Other Way author Martin Aston […]
