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Sonic Cathedral turned the UK’s first COVID lockdown into content last year, soliciting quarantine listening selections from dreampop and shoegaze artists for their Isolationism series. Slowdive drummer Simon Scott chose the 1986 collaboration between The Moon and The Melodies between minimalist composer Harold Budd and Cocteau Twins, describing how its soothing blend of ambience and […]
A little more Creation Records content to close out the week, from one of the label’s simultaneously bigger yet under-appreciated acts, The Boo Radleys. Their 1993 opus Giant Steps bridged 1991’s fuzz-drenched Everything’s Alright Forever and the chart-topping sunshine of 1995’s Wake Up!, and is often slotted as either shoegaze or Britpop. Both of which […]
It’s been an unofficial kind of My Bloody Valentine week, what with the band’s catalog returning to streaming services globally and coming back into print, albeit with some confusion around what versions are available in what form and where. Basically, you can’t buy the Domino versions of Isn’t Anything or Loveless – in other words, […]
I can’t say I was too invested in the artistic success of Creation Stories, the film adaptation of Creation Records honcho Alan McGee’s 2013 memoir Creation Stories: Riots, Raves, and Running a Label, but was at least hoping it would be a decent ’90s companion piece of sorts to 24 Hour Party People, Michael Winterbottom’s […]
Quick one for today, taken from the Bills & Aches & Blues compilation that pairs artists from 4AD’s current roster with songs from the label’s past. Obviously pretty much anything the label has ever put out would fall under the mandate of this site, but I’m particularly partial to this one that pairs Daughter frontwoman […]
I confess to being a little disappointed when I realized this full performance from Magazine at Berlin’s Metropol in October 1980, broadcast on the Rockpalast television programme, was after John McGeoch’s departure from the band to join Siouxsie & The Banshees. Though to be fair, his short-term replacement Robin Simon’s post-punk bonafides are pretty impeccable […]
Gonna pivot to some Krautrock today, and a tune which has the distinction of having been released as a single for two different albums, in a sense. The German version “Das Model” was a single from the 1978 album Die Mensch-Maschine, but the English version, “The Model”, was used a b-side to “Computer Love” for […]
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 […]
