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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
I haven’t dug into the Rockpalast archives in a while, so here’s one that coincides with my re-immersing myself in the Wire discography (I took a breather for a little while, there). This February, 1979 performance is notable because it was the source for the band’s 2004 live CD/DVD set On The Box 1979. Chronologically, […]
Mogwai wrapped their Spring North American tour in support of As The Love Continues this past weekend, and as a parting gift, they’ve released a new, non-album track along with video. Recording of it began alongside the rest of the Continues material at VADA Studios near Birmingham, England, but wasn’t completed until last month at […]
Spiritualized released their new album Everything Was Beautiful last Friday (though I’ve yet to see the regular edition vinyl in stock anywhere), and whereas the previously-released official videos kind of came across like extended commercials with the album art superimposed over random video imagery – I guess the days of dropping Jason Pierce into a […]
After years of online neglect, The House Of Love have been doing a fine job of making themselves available, if not well-known, to the internet. Besides getting all their albums added to streaming services over the last while, they’ve been putting their videos on the YouTube… even the ones that seem to have been shot […]
Roxy Music – the eponymous debut from Roxy Music turns 50 years old this year, and the occasion is being most correctly honoured with an unexpected reunion tour – see you in the cheap seats at the opening show in September – but today I’m more interested in talking about their last album, Avalon, which […]
Tonight, I’ll be seeing Mogwai for the eighth time, but the first in over five years and the first time touring behind a regular studio album in a decade. That January 2017 show was for their 2016 soundtrack Atomic, which I loved and was thrilled to hear performed front to back, but it’s a different […]
Given that she is basically the patron saint of much of what this site is about, I’d be remiss to not give ink to the return of Cocteau Twins vocalist Elizabeth Fraser to the world of recorded music. Her new project Sun’s Signature is a collaboration with partner and percussionist Damon Reece, whose own resume […]
Chapterhouse have never seemed to have the best timing. Despite being key players in the “Scene That Celebrates Itself”, history has relegated them to also-ran status. Perhaps that’s because after representing a danceable bridge between shoegaze and baggy on their 1991 debut Whirlpool, they pivoted further into dance and psychedelia with 1993’s Blood Music, but […]
I’ve no shame in admitting that I only became a proper Psychedelic Furs fan with 2020’s Made Of Rain and so while they’ve hardly been strangers to local stages since reforming in 2000, I’ve never seen them live. So count me as excited that I will be seeing them when they tour said record through […]
To mark my first show of the year last night, and the third in 28 months, here’s the vid for the title track of Yard Act’s debut album, The Overload. Yeah, that sentence was a mouthful but so are most/all of their songs, with the elevator pitch on the Leeds outfit being “a cross between […]
