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I actually can’t remember if I first heard about John McGeoch’s playing before I actually heard him play, but a couple years ago I fell into a deep rabbit hole of his work and arguably still haven’t emerged. It’s really by following his crazy flanged guitar riffs through the catalogues of Magazine and Siouxsie & […]
It’s generally acknowledged that Ride broke up in 1996, just before the release of their fourth album Tarantula, and that they reunited in 2014 initially for live shows and then for a couple of excellent new records and counting. However, it’s important to note that that wasn’t the first time that Andy, Mark, Loz, and […]
Belly’s debut album Star turns 28 years old today, meaning it’s been 28 years since I was tipped off to the record by a friend whose tastes normally ran to Faith No More than 4AD. But I thank him for the recommendation because Tanya Donelly and company have been one of my favourite bands for […]
One of the greatest <insert term here> ever. No matter what you put in that phrase – “Songs”? “Recordings”? “Title tracks”? “Performances”? – it would be accurate. Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd’s interlocking guitars and alternating solos are just epic and a clinic in awesome. Effusive much? Yes, but I can’t not hear that opening […]
A reminder that anything you see today about the third Monday in January being the saddest day of the year is nonsense created by an advertising cohmpany to promote travel bookings, and that the joke is absolutely on them this year. Or it would be if the company that solicited the campaign was still in […]
“Absolute Beginners” is one of my favourite Bowie songs, and one I fear gets unjustly overlooked in the general “everything after ‘Scary Monsters’ is bad” narrative that gets applied to his ’80s output. I mean, yes, his studio albums of the era aren’t great, but if you get into the singles and soundtrack contributions, there’s […]
