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Things to read from elsewhere
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 […]
The 2012 self-titled debut from Melody’s Echo Chamber was a sublime collection of psychedelic dreampop made distinctive by Melody Prochet’s Gallic sensibilities. Much was made of the sonic signature of Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, who produced and played on the record, but anyone assuming that it was his project and Prochet just the face/voice grossly […]
I know preorders can sometimes take a while, and vinyl production is slow in non-pandemic times, but the journey that my copy of Belly’s new rarities compilation Bees took to reach my turntable was a long one, in both space and time. The begin with, although Belly only had two albums in the ’90s, my […]
Whilst cruising The Chameleons’ online store looking for things to buy yesterday, I happened upon this listing for a new release – Elevated Living: Live in Manchester, London, and Barcelona – a new CD/DVD set compiling three of their early live shows which have been kicking around as bootleg and unofficial releases for many years. […]
It seems a bit perverse that I’ve gone, what, more than nine months writing a blog about post-punk and other things, and have yet to make any real mention of Joy Division, arguably one of if not the biggest and most important band of the genre. And that’s kind of why… I couldn’t imagine what […]
