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Here’s one to put on in the background while you do other things – an interview Dean Wareham gave to the Life Of The Record podcast back in 2021 about the making of Luna’s majestic 1995 album Penthouse on the occasion of the album’s 25th anniversary. Well it’s not an interview, really, but 45 minutes […]
After stepping away from music for a long time post-Lush, Miki Berenyi has been making up for lost time. There was the short-lived Lush reunion in 2015, followed by new music with Piroshka in the form of two albums – Brickbat in 2019 and Love Drips and Gathers in 2021. But since embarking on book […]
With the confirmation that the current lineup of The Chameleons is in the studio recording new music, let’s take a quick look back at the release that was supposed to be their fourth album following 1986’s Strange Times. But as is typical in the stories of bands who are doomed to be under-appreciated, fate intervened. […]
There’s anti-marketing, and then there’s what Seoul’s Della Zyr is doing. If you were to stumble across her YouTube channel, you’d find a handful of videos of a young woman playing shoegaze cover songs in her bedroom; excellently done, certainly, but not unusual in 2024. Her Instagram offers somewhat more; it’s only four posts deep, […]
Taking a quick dip today into Magazine’s second album – 1979’s Secondhand Daylight – thanks to a guitar lesson from John McGeoch disciple Adrian from Anyone Can Play Guitar. He took a deep dive into “Rhythm Of Cruelty”, the only single released from the album, which reminded me what a great tune it was and […]
As I mentioned on my main Instagram, I’m ready to be part of the critical re-evaluation of Swervedriver’s 1998 one-time swan song 99th Dream, thanks to its new deluxe reissue which I happened to find at a very decent price and thought, “why not”. I bought the album on CD when it was first released […]
That Ride have been sitting on a finished new album for some time isn’t a secret; it’s been in the can since at least early Fall. But perhaps they wanted to wait until the attention around Slowdive’s new record had crested – at least initially – before raising their hand. In any case, they’re welcoming […]
Our final post for the year comes from Philadelphia, courtesy of Knifeplay and their For The Holidays EP. They’ve been putting out seasonal songs the last few years and have, for 2023, compiled them together along with a haunting Counting Crows cover, selling it digitally and directing all proceeds to the Broad Street Ministry, dedicated […]
Gleaming synth-pop isn’t necessarily the first thing you associate with Christmas music, but Ladytron have elected to wrap up an eventful year – one that saw them release another excellent album in Time’s Arrow as well as lose a founding member in Reuben Wu – with a new holiday tune. They describe it as: Cut […]
It’s the home stretch to the holidays, so it’s about time I get the festive fare I’ve been sitting on out into the world. We’ll start way back in 1991, when Ride, a couple months after the release of their debut album Nowhere, released a single-sided 7″ for sale at a fan club gig in […]
