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I know preorders can sometimes take a while, and vinyl production is slow in non-pandemic times, but the journey that my copy of Belly’s new rarities compilation Bees took to reach my turntable was a long one, in both space and time. The begin with, although Belly only had two albums in the ’90s, my […]
Throwing caution to the wind, The Psychedelic Furs will embark on a US tour behind last year’s excellent Made Of Rain in a couple weeks. In normaler times, they’d probably have a Toronto date and in moderately abnormal times, I’d consider trekking to the Buffalo show, but as it stands, I’ll just listen to the […]
I’m not a huge podcast guy, but when an hour-long conversation between Mission Of Burma’s Clint Conley and Roger Miller, and Gang Of Four’s Jon King and Hugo Burnham – hosted by Chavez’s Matt Sweeney – comes on your radar, you stop what you’re doing and listen. It’s part of Matador Records’ Revisionist History series, […]
It was Dean Wareham’s birthday a few days ago, so here’s a hug of a tribute to the man. I’m one of those who hold his work with Luna far closer to his heart than the Galaxie 500 records, but suspect I’m in the minority with that. In any case, we’re going with the band’s […]
In honour of the fact that my friends and I are able to go back into a rehearsal space to make noise every few weeks for the first time in over a year and a half, here’s a YouTube rip of an early Magazine bootleg record, BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert. Recorded on November […]
I do love me some melodrama, so the third single from Siouxsie & The Banshees‘ 1988 album Peepshow certainly hit the spot. All slow burn and build and featuring one of Sioux’s best vocal performances, it’s an all-timer. The version recorded at the final stop of the Lollapalooza 1991 tour in Washington state was deemed […]
Pale Saints are a band I started out with backwards from conventional wisdom, finding a copy of their third and final album – 1994’s Slow Buildings – in a pawn shop CD bin in the mid-’90s. It’s not the one most would recommend since by this point, Ian Masters – the band’s founder and vocalist […]
Anywhere’s a valid place to find good music recommendations, but a tip from Steve Coogan portraying the Lord Almighty is not an especially common one. Said scene came towards the end of 24 Hour Party People, Michael Winterbottom’s brilliant 2002 biopic on Factory Records’ Tony Wilson: “Vini Reilly, by the way, is way overdue a […]
New Order’s 1980’s output is nigh-untouchable, but amongst those albums, it’s arguable that 1983’s Power Corruption & Lies is the best of the best, as they stepping out of the shadow of Joy Division and boldly established their own identity. And while there were no singles taken directly from the record – the band somehow […]
In this day and age where everything exists first digitally and basically in perpetuity, rarities aren’t really a thing. But in feeling like posting a Hatchie song, I opted to go for one that only barely exists physically and thus is sort of an inverse rarity. “Adored” was released as part of Adult Swim’s 2018 […]
