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A couple weeks ago while bemoaning the hiatus-ing/disbanding of Shirotsume after a final gig in July, I mentioned a second body blow for fans of the poppier end of J-gaze and that’s because on that same day, AprilBlue announced they too would be splitting up following a final show in August. AprilBlue, of course, was […]
I don’t use Spotify or TikTok but apparently Cocteau Twins’ song “Cico Buff” is now the most popular song in their catalog on the former thanks to the latter. In investigating this little bit of trivia, I learned a few other things about the song. One, it was never released as an official single from […]
So both Joy Division and New Order were just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, and the big question around that is if the members of those bands will attend, and if so, how will they interact? Given the public bad blood between Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner over the last two […]
Because I am who I am, I had a bunch of topical posts done and lined up before we even left for our trip to Hong Kong and Japan last month. And of course life being what it is, I forgot about them. Or some of them. Well, one of them. This one was meant […]
I still remember clearly the dagger to the heart in 2004 when Luna announced they were splitting up. They were my favourite band, in a simpler time when people declared such things, and I took the farewell tour as an opportunity to go on my first rock’n’roll road trip. A few days after seeing their […]
I made my first visit to Nagoya, Japan a few weeks ago, but only saw their Shinkanesen station and Legoland Japan, situated on the city’s port lands. There’s no point to this besides to say “hey go look at my holiday pics” but also that if local shoegaze ambassadors Blurred City Lights had released their […]
I appreciate that it seems like new singles from some bands seem like automatic posts – because they basically are – but I’d like to point out that it’s a really exciting time in the genre because there are these new acts who are putting out really great music and taking the sound forward, and […]
Since COVID stopped Wire’s 2020 tour in support of Mind Hive in its tracks, there doesn’t seem to have even been the discussion of the band returning to any kind of ongoing activity. Colin Newman has kept busy with Immersion, Matthew Sims has a new project in Memorials, and Graham Lewis put out his first […]
Just over a year ago in my main IG account, which is largely dedicated to old concert pics, I dug up a shot of the English outfit playing our blogger-assembled SXSW day show in Austin, Texas way back in 2007. At the time they were touring on the back of their 2006 kraut-psych-space-rocking self-titled debut, […]
It’d be an overstatement to say the spirit of Ryuichi Sakamoto has followed me around on this trip – I’ve actually had very little opportunity to listen to music – but it is noteworthy that I saw the seeing sound, hearing time installation featuring his work at Hong Kong’s M+ gallery, and then when record […]
