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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
There’s been better-quality rips of Rockpalast shows, sure, but what this Gang Of Four clip lacks in fidelity, it makes up for in length and pure fire. Documenting the band’s performance from March 1983 at Zeche, in Bochum, West Germany in March 1983 while touring the band’s third record, Songs Of The Free. Clocking in […]
Describing a band as sounding like they were put together in a lab seems like it’s some kind of put-down, but in the case of Malmö’s Echo Ladies, it’s the highest praise. Think of The Radio Dept if they leaned into the fuzziest aspects of Lesser Matters. Their debut self-titled EP and full-length follow-up Pink […]
Anywhere’s a valid place to find good music recommendations, but a tip from Steve Coogan portraying the Lord Almighty is not an especially common one. Said scene came towards the end of 24 Hour Party People, Michael Winterbottom’s brilliant 2002 biopic on Factory Records’ Tony Wilson: “Vini Reilly, by the way, is way overdue a […]
New Order’s 1980’s output is nigh-untouchable, but amongst those albums, it’s arguable that 1983’s Power Corruption & Lies is the best of the best, as they stepping out of the shadow of Joy Division and boldly established their own identity. And while there were no singles taken directly from the record – the band somehow […]
While running this blog has been a great exercise in exploring music through the flat circle of time, I’d be remiss to not acknowledge that we’re currently experiencing a(nother) renaissance in post-punk because, remarkable, artists are finding some aspect of the world to be anxious or angry about. As such, a lot of the bigger, […]
Peruse any list of “essential post-punk bands” and at some point, probably at least halfway down the list, you’ll probably find an entry for Watford’s Sad Lovers & Giants. Find a list for “most overlooked post-punk bands”, and they’ll probably be near the top. Whatever the reasons for their under-appreciatedness, lack of quality is not […]
The losses in the music world over the past year have been immeasurable, but the loss of Andy Gill from Gang Of Four remains one of the bitterest, and a number of projects he was working on at the time of his passing have since become posthumous tributes to one of the most influential musicians […]
In this day and age where everything exists first digitally and basically in perpetuity, rarities aren’t really a thing. But in feeling like posting a Hatchie song, I opted to go for one that only barely exists physically and thus is sort of an inverse rarity. “Adored” was released as part of Adult Swim’s 2018 […]
Conventional wisdom holds that Slowdive’s second album Souvlaki is their masterpiece – certainly it’s my go-to of their catalog – but the critical re-evaluation Pygmalion – their once-but-no-longer swan song – has gotten over the past quarter-century is pretty remarkable. On its initial release in February of 1995, it seemed to be cursed. Drummer Simon […]
Germany’s Rockpalast programme really is the gift that keeps on giving. Their archive of live shows – or more specifically the ones that have made their way onto YouTube and remain there, rights be damned – is an astonishing time capsule that I’ll be happy to mine as long as I’m doing this. Today, a […]
