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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
Tragically, there is a dearth of live Cocteau Twins footage only – certainly no complete shows from Rockpalast or the BBC archives – so while it’s grainy and the audio is not fantastic, this 20-minute clip taken from a Swedish television broadcast of a mini-gig at a small tavern called Lord Nelson in Örebro, Sweden […]
A tremendous loss for music and humanity this weekend, as Mimi Parker of Duluth’s Low passed away from ovarian cancer. My tenure as a fan of Low began around 2001, circa Things We Lost In The Fire and Trust, when the band got just louder and faster to appeal to my rock-tuned ears. And while […]
Even though this is only the second Hallowe’en I’ve been doing this blog, I have not been judicious about keeping content aside for the holiday because I’ve already gone through the lowest of hanging fruit. Thankfully, you don’t have to dig too deep into the Bauhaus catalog to find something suitably spooky and seasonal, so […]
When Ladytron wrapped their Light & Magic 20th anniversary reminiscences by tweeting, “The next message you get from us will be from the future. We promise”, they meant it quite literally. A couple weeks ago, they revealed their plans for their seventh album – Time’s Arrow will be out on January 20 of next year […]
There’s not a wealth of live Catherine Wheel material out there – barely any, really – so stumbling across this complete, almost two hours-long show from New York in the Summer of 2000 feels like a pretty sweet, unexpected gift. Okay, first the downside – it’s from the Wishville tour, the band’s swan song and […]
Like all good, reasonable legacy acts, Echo & The Bunnymen have been doing some archive-diving the last little while and been posting live shows and performances on their YouTube channel (the one that says “Official”, the other one is apparently not official, hence it doesn’t say official). I’ll probably be raiding that for a while […]
Though not one of my favourite Siouxsie & The Banshees singles – it was the lead single and closing track from 1982’s A Kiss In The Dreamhouse – “Slowdive” gets respect for not only being the namesake for one of my favourite bands ever1, but for producing this video which forces Budgie, Steven Severin, and […]
There’s some irony that the second single from The Sundays’ debut album Reading, Writing and Arithmetic is often held as a prototype for dream pop, but actually doesn’t have many of the traits that would become the genre’s calling card. Chorused guitars? Only what you naturally get from David Gavurin’s 12-string acoustic (okay, maybe a […]
Today was always going to be a Cure day with the 30th anniversary reissue of Wish originally scheduled for today, but the street date has been pushed back to November 25, when the vinyl was originally scheduled to come out. But with that also being the Black Friday Record Store Day, and a special picture […]
So about a decade ago there was a big sort of shoegaze/dreampop renaissance and a bunch of new bands showed up with Fender offset guitars and loads of chorus and delay pedals on hand and, for the most part, because I’m a contrary bastard, I had no time for any of it even though – […]
