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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
It’s not unreasonable to assume that a chart-topping single – even on the UK indie charts – in 1985 would have a video, given it was the MTV era. However if you were to go looking for the clip for “Primitive Painters”, Felt‘s luminous chart-topper from 1985’s Ignite The Seven Cannons, built on Maurice Deebank’s […]
For the third part in my “listen to Lowly” series, I’ll not post another of the advance singles from their latest album, 2019’s Hifalutin. Instead, I’ll share the three gorgeous short films – ‘video’ seems so insufficient – they released to go with it. The Danish band’s third record shed some of the immediacy of […]
It’s quite a thing for a single song to be given credit for creating not just a musical genre, but an entire subculture but these are things that are attributed to Bauhaus’ 1979 debut single, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”, aka the song which begat goth. PopMatters ran a piece on the song’s importance and influence on […]
I’m very disappointed in myself that at almost four months into running this blog, I’ve only had one post dedicated to The Chameleons; after all, my ongoing obsession with the band was one of the factors that made me want to start blogging again. And so, here’s one of the choicest bits of Chameleons content […]
I don’t recall exactly what it was that endeared me to It Hugs Back at first. It might have been the lo-fi fuzzy bounce of the lead single from their 2009 debut album Inside Your Guitar, or the fact that 4AD sent it to me as a 7″ single. Yes, vinyl is a shortcut to […]
Thanks to Cocteau Twins Simon Raymonde for taking care of doing all the background on this post, via the band’s Facebook page. It’s also cool to note that in addition to their official website being an active, living archive of everything about the band, their socials are also being kept active by a member of […]
I launched this blog with some Swervedriver content – a shot of Adam Franklin’s pedalboard from their October 2019 show at The Horseshoe – but haven’t actually talked about the band since then, so let’s rectify that, starting with some guitar-centric material since you can’t like Swervedriver and not care about guitars. I actually don’t […]
Which is more classic? This song, the first single from Roxy Music’s final album – 1982’s Avalon – or Bryan Ferry’s leather jacket tux look from the video. Honestly, it’s a coin toss but for our purposes let’s just say it comes up “song” and move on. This “performance” on German television programme Na sowas! […]
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 […]
