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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
While the correct answer to “when would have a better time for the COVID-19 pandemic to hit North America” is obviously “never”, I would have accepted a week or two later than it did, in mid-March. Because if it had held out a little bit, Wire would have been able to continue their North American […]
If you thought that the couple of new singles Montreal’s Men I Trust rolled out over the past year were going to be a preview of their next album, well that’s not an unreasonable assumption as that’s how these things usually work. But Men I Trust don’t really do things the usual way, so neither […]
I started playing guitar when I was 17, starting out taking a class in high school where 30 dudes sat around a classroom with cheap acoustic guitars trying to follow the teacher as he ran through the chord changes for “American Pie”. I took to it enough to want to borrow the school’s one electric […]
It didn’t make much/any noise at all, but I was pleased to hear this week that Echo & The Bunnymen were doing vinyl reissues of a couple of their 21st century releases – 2001’s Flowers and 2005’s Siberia – on October 1 courtesy of Demon Records, the first wax pressings of both since the limited […]
Or perhaps the title should read, Siouxsie & The Banshees with Bernard Butler, as mathematically, this performance is much more this than that. The date was July 12, 1993, the location London’s Clapham Grand, and the occasion an AIDS benefit concert by Suede. Midway through the set, Brett Anderson excused himself and brought out Siouxsie […]
So Chromatics have split. The messy details – and from the way it was announced, with a statement from three of the four members who are not Johnny Jewel, it is surely messy – will probably come to light at some point but for now, let’s just be sad that an amazing band is no […]
In May 2019 – aka a million years ago – The Cure played a series of shows to mark the 30th anniversary of their landmark album Disintegration at the Sydney Opera House in Australia. It was hinted that there’d be more recitals of the record, but the remainder of their 2019 dates were more conventional […]
It was Dean Wareham’s birthday a few days ago, so here’s a hug of a tribute to the man. I’m one of those who hold his work with Luna far closer to his heart than the Galaxie 500 records, but suspect I’m in the minority with that. In any case, we’re going with the band’s […]
After Slowdive disbanded in 1994, principals Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell, and drummer Ian McCutcheon regrouped almost immediately as Mojave 3, releasing their debut Ask Me Tomorrow in 1995. Quiet, elegant, and sparse, it seemed a flipside to Slowdive’s then-final record Pygmalion, sharing its appreciation for space, though trading its electronic DNA for acoustic. As it […]
Existing as a sort of perfect hybrid of post-punk and dreampop served up with “anthemic” turned to 10, Gothenberg’s Makthaverskan didn’t make any videos for their last full-length, 2017’s III, but did record a wonderfully low-budget two-song session for their label that served the same purpose. They followed up with a two-song 7″ for “Demands” […]
