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Things to read from elsewhere
Because I’m that kind of nerd, back in the day (the days in question being the ’90s), I would spend an inordinate amount of time both hunting down back issues of American and British guitar magazines and waiting for new issues of same to come out, mostly hoping for coverage of or better, song transcription […]
Even though Robert Smith is on Twitter, he’s more about retweeting commentary on politics than chatting music (or maybe just avoiding questions on where the next Cure album is) so it fell on founding member and former drummer Lol Tolhurst to offer commentary on their 1982 record Pornography for #TimsTwitterListeningParty last October. The Cure / […]
Not that I’m the sort of person to rank such things but while it’s always been up there, Slowdive’s 1993 masterpiece Souvlaki can make a pretty strong claim to being my favourite record of all-time. And if anyone were to ask “why”, I’d just point them to the opening track even though being the poppiest […]
Listings for a new Chameleons live record have had me a little confused of late, so I finally got around to doing the leg work to understanding what it is. The album is Return Of The Roughnecks – Live at The Ritz Manchester 1, and the description on many of the UK retailers implied that […]
I am the furthest thing there is from a Tim Buckley scholar, but have happily immersed myself in his “Song To The Siren”, which is arguably his most famous tune thanks to the number of times it has been reinterpreted. Thankfully, in 2011 The Guardian published as comprehensive a history of the song as you’re […]
When I first started doing web development many many moons ago, Javascript was that annoying add-on that was super-picky about quotes and semicolons but was necessary for state-of-the-art tricks like rollovers and image swaps. Now, it’s the language that underpins pretty much everything on the web, that which keeps me employed, and more importantly, that […]
30 years in the making, The Psychedelic Furs‘ Made Of Rain was one of two records locked into my 2020 year-end list when I began compiling it at the end of December. This is notable because prior to midway through the year, my Furs diet consisted of very occasional run-throughs of their All Of This […]
Colin Newman and Matt Simms of Wire talked with Guitar Player magazine about their history, gear, and their 2020 album Mind Hive. Because they are guitar players. They speak a common language. Colin Newman and Matt Simms on the Glorious Noise in Wire’s Punk Sound @ Guitar Player
It’s one of my great regrets that I hung up the old blog before Alvvays put out their debut album, preventing me from properly gushing over the best new band to come out of Toronto in forever. I did, however, get to write them up while they were still “Always” and Molly was still brunette, […]
Going back to the #TimsTwitterListeningParty well, and get used to it because there’s been lots of great stuff there. But I shall be judicious. Here, we’ve got Siouxsie & The Banshees’ 1980 record Kaleidoscope with commentary from drummer Budgie. He made his recording debut with the band on this album alongside new guitarist John McGeoch, […]
