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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
While any live band performance television footage from yesteryear is kind of a gift, most of it is pretty low-res, VHS rip quality and while it may be period-correct but not necessarily a lot of fun to watch. So this recently-surfaced high-quality (well, 480p) clip of Ride tearing up British programme The Happening (not to […]
A little more Creation Records content to close out the week, from one of the label’s simultaneously bigger yet under-appreciated acts, The Boo Radleys. Their 1993 opus Giant Steps bridged 1991’s fuzz-drenched Everything’s Alright Forever and the chart-topping sunshine of 1995’s Wake Up!, and is often slotted as either shoegaze or Britpop. Both of which […]
It’s been an unofficial kind of My Bloody Valentine week, what with the band’s catalog returning to streaming services globally and coming back into print, albeit with some confusion around what versions are available in what form and where. Basically, you can’t buy the Domino versions of Isn’t Anything or Loveless – in other words, […]
I confess to being a little disappointed when I realized this full performance from Magazine at Berlin’s Metropol in October 1980, broadcast on the Rockpalast television programme, was after John McGeoch’s departure from the band to join Siouxsie & The Banshees. Though to be fair, his short-term replacement Robin Simon’s post-punk bonafides are pretty impeccable […]
Gonna pivot to some Krautrock today, and a tune which has the distinction of having been released as a single for two different albums, in a sense. The German version “Das Model” was a single from the 1978 album Die Mensch-Maschine, but the English version, “The Model”, was used a b-side to “Computer Love” for […]
Picking up from last month’s “Why Lowly are great” series, a quick look at one of the singles from their 2017 full-length debut Heba. It occurs to me that between this and “Stones In The Water”, I may be misrepresenting the band a bit as these tracks are decidedly more uptempo than much of their […]
I didn’t think this post was going to be as long as it has turned out to be, but I somehow forgot that Catherine Wheel fans are a devoted lot, and so it figures there’d be no shortage of quality versions of the band’s signature song. But that’s cool. This one goes out to my […]
I got a promo copy Colossal Youth, the landmark debut album and blueprint for minimalist pop from Cardiff’s Young Marble Giants’, on the occasion of its 2007 release as Colossal Youth & Collected Works and of course, I didn’t listen to it. But I did keep it when many other promos disappeared to who knows […]
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Cocteau Twins’ final studio album Milk & Kisses, Spin talked to bassist Simon Raymonde about the making of the record and the band’s final days. I literally traversed the globe looking for one of the 2017 Record Store Day double-disc presses of this record (struck out in […]
I could have sworn the first place I heard The Sound was on the TV or more accurately, on my phone as I watched episodes of downloaded TV on my way to work, don’t @ me) and I assumed that the show was Deadly Class – the one-season comic-book adaptation of an assassin’s school boasting […]
