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Things to read from elsewhere
As a band more frequently placed in the folk-prog end of the indie rock spectrum, Shearwater‘s David Bowie comparisons don’t go much further than Jonathan Meiburg’s astonishing voice. But circa their 2016 record Jet Plane and Oxbow, they took more direct influence from The Thin White Duke. Political art can be such a tricky thing. […]
There has been a dearth of Magazine content hereabouts lately; this cannot stand. So let’s have a look/listen to the lead single from the band’s third record – 1980’s The Correct Use Of Soap – which was notable for being the last with founding guitarist John McGeoch as well as being produced by the legendary […]
I’d considered photographer Kevin Cummins to be one of the visual documentarians of Britpop, as his recent book While We Were Getting High testified, but I didn’t realize that he was also the man behind most of the iconic photos of Joy Division a decade and a half earlier. But he’s just released a collection […]
I – like everyone – has spilt a lot of digital ink on My Bloody Valentine this year, what with their back catalog finally coming back into print on all mediums in all territories in time for the 30th anniversary of their landmark Loveless. So much so that when the actual birthday of the record […]
I was originally just going to share the one article I’d found on the topic of Roxy Music and the models that graced the covers of almost all their albums, but just a little digging revealed that the topic was a well-covered one. Which makes sense, as the visuals of Roxy Music in the ’70s […]
To mark the end of the Spiritualized Spacemen Reissue Series, which concludes today with the release of the deluxe edition of 2001’s Let It Come Down, here’s a documentary on the making of the record from that year, broadcast on Channel 4 and narrated by Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie.
I’ve been trying to learn to play a few selections from Swervedriver’s back catalog lately and have really come to appreciate how unconventional Adam Franklin’s playing and writing style is. His musical brain is an interesting place to be, and I’ve been living in it and the Swervedriver oeuvre a fair bit of late. So […]
My wife told me of a conversation she had at work recently wherein it came out that one of her co-workers had never read Wuthering Heights, the book, and only knew “Wuthering Heights”, the song, while my wife had read the book but never heard the song. This puzzled me as I had read the […]
As architects of what would become known and loved as “shoegaze”, the specifics of Ride’s musical tools have always been of particular interest to a certain segment of society. So it’s kind of a tragedy that none of the guitar-centric articles from their first go-around seem to exist online… and by “none of”, I mean […]
In retrospect it’s more surprising that I’m even discovering Life Without Buildings now, than that it took me 20-plus years to discover them. Their only record Any Other City came out in 2001, when music discovery tools like Napster were put to work more finding Manic Street Preachers b-sides than hearing stuff completely new to […]
