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Things to read from elsewhere
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Cocteau Twins’ final studio album Milk & Kisses, Spin talked to bassist Simon Raymonde about the making of the record and the band’s final days. I literally traversed the globe looking for one of the 2017 Record Store Day double-disc presses of this record (struck out in […]
I could have sworn the first place I heard The Sound was on the TV or more accurately, on my phone as I watched episodes of downloaded TV on my way to work, don’t @ me) and I assumed that the show was Deadly Class – the one-season comic-book adaptation of an assassin’s school boasting […]
Mogwai‘s 1999 second album Come On Die Young might not have gotten as good reviews as their debut Young Team – and it’s not my favourite of theirs either – it holds a special place in my heart as the first Mogwai record I heard, starting a devotion to their music that has waxed and […]
Sonic Cathedral, keepers and champions of all things ‘gazey, are doing something really cool to mark the 30th anniversary of the year that was a seminal one for the shoegazing scene. I could list some of those moments off, but that is the entire purpose of their mini-rolling blog which is highlighting and reminiscing about […]
