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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
Ten years is not a long time, except when it is. If you’re, say, a guy riding into middle age with a little kid it goes by in the blink of an eye but if you’re a four-piece band from Osaka who were foundational in the current Japanese shoegaze scene but have creatively evolved on […]
You could say that Television ended many times in the past 50 years. When they initially split in 1978, just after releasing Adventure, when they reconvened just long enough to release a third self-titled album in 1992 and then disband again in 1993, or when their 2001 reunion lasted long enough to enjoy their now-legendary […]
Today’s selection is frustratingly and literally topical, but hopefully just briefly and temporarily. Collapse release this is a digital standalone single in February 2021 with Yuki Ishikawa of My Dead Girlfriend guesting on vocals. A banger of a track, if there’s an upside to this it’s that I haven’t listened to this song in ages […]
Looking back, I’m surprised it took me so long to get around to sharing Kyoto’s ヨツドメノディ (aka Yotsudomenoddy) because going back and listening to their slim catalog now, particularly their debut 2025 EP 追憶, their brand of emotive, anthemic shoegaze hits so good. The timing of this realization is good, however, because their second EP […]
Spooky season might be over – I’m pulling the fake tombstones and zombie arms out of my lawn today – but it’s always a good time for a live Cure set, particularly when it’s an hour of BBC-shot multi-cam footage. This comes from the August 1984 stop at Barrowland in Glasgow, Scotland while touring The […]
Nagoya’s Blurred City Lights are clearly continuing the run-up to their third record – you don’t get new band photos just for fun – but their second new single of the years isn’t spilling tea just yet. 「Voyage」follows 「月光」, which came out back in April, and continues to showcase a bigger-sounding band than debuted on […]
As I was putting together posts to go along with the Mojave 3 reissues this Summer, I came across this video session that Neil Halstead did for French cinéma-vérité music documentarians La Blogothèque in June 2006 – a performance which isn’t listed on their website anymore, but still lives on their YouTube channel designated as […]
In the before times, when we existed in the actual physical space we lived in and not in the endless screaming void of misinformation and FOMO that we call the internet, we learned about upcoming shows from listings by local promoters in things like alt weekly newspapers or even posters on bulletin boards, light posts, […]
Tokyo’s Hammer Head Shark are gearing up to release a new EP entitled Air next month, but beyond that they haven’t offered up any more information like a track list or precise release date. They’ve released three new songs since their debut full-length 27℃ came out last Summer, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be on […]
Slow Fiction sound like a lotta things; there’s all of shoegaze, post-punk, garage rock in there, but you wouldn’t even think about using one of those as a single descriptive adjective for them when there exists the perfect one – New York. Just like the city they hail from can’t be done justice by any […]
