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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
In honour of the 29th anniversary of Ride’s Going Blank Again – March 9, 1992 – here’s the video for the second track and the second single from the album and the clip from their live Live At Brixton DVD included as a bonus on the 2012 20th anniversary reissue of the album.
NME premiered the new video from The Psychedelic Furs‘ 2020 album Made Of Rain yesterday. It kind of keeps with the slow rollout of everything around this record – 30 years in the making, release date delayed by three months, first video out seven months ago, but I guess that’s one of the perks of […]
I was genuinely surprised when I went to grab my copy of Guy Chadwick’s 1998 solo album Lazy, Soft & Slow and found that I no longer had it. I’m not sure what I was thinking – it wasn’t heavy rotation, by any means, but his sole musical output in the decade between The House […]
One of my favourite musical finds of the last few years, I would classify Copenhagen’s Lowly as “dreampop”, but reluctantly so. In fact I’ve spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time trying to find the words to justify it, but the right ones elude me… kind of like finding clear meaning in a dream that’s so […]
XTC spent so much of their career as a studio-only entity, it’s easy to forget they were once a formidable live outfit. But thanks to this oft-bootlegged live performance, we have a document of the band at the peak of their on-stage powers – which happened to be right before it all came crashing down. […]
A question of “how did Nick McCabe get those insane sounds on The Verve’s A Storm In Heaven?” on a guitar discussion board I frequent inevitably turned into “Where’s Nick McCabe?”. The answer to the former is reasonably well-documented: an Alesis Quadraverb+ rackmount effects unit was the main secret sauce the utilized for his immense […]
When COVID restrictions in their hometown of Montreal were eased somewhat last Summer, Men I Trust gathered a small film crew, set up their gear in one of their garages and recorded a live set of Oncle Jazz material. The video went up on the YouTubes in July and were compiled as the front half […]
So I’ve been somewhat obsessed with Bernard Butler’s guitar tone since the first Suede record, and thanks to some guitar magazine interview circa then I’ve been convinced since, like, 1994 that his lead tone was the product of some esoteric and expensive ’60s Japanese fuzz pedal and spent no small amount of time over the […]
Books can be written about the mythology around the creation of My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless – and at least one has – but while it’s easy to think of a record as singular and otherworldly as emerging from some extra-dimensional wormhole, it was in fact recorded with conventional audio technology in the late ’80s/early ’90s […]
It’s probably a sign of aging when one’s favourite song from Echo & The Bunnymen’s 1984 opus Ocean Rain transitions from the dramatic and brooding “Killing Moon” to the elegant and elegiac title track. I’m not saying I’m there now, but I’m not saying I’m not. There’s enough love in my heart for both tracks. […]
