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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
Guitar pedal demo videos are a dime a dozen these days, but those by proper musical legends such as Colin Newman of Wire are rather rarer. That’s why this 10-minute video with him exploring the Eventide H9 multi-effects – which he’s used with Wire as well as his Immersion and Githead projects – while discussing […]
The last preview track from English trio Drug Store Romeos’ debut album offered a pretty much on-the-nose job of letting you know what to expect from The world within our bedrooms when it finally came out last Friday: Hazy pop given form by Broadcast-y keyboards and personality by singer Sarah Downie’s wispy vocals, reminiscent of […]
Pale Saints are a band I started out with backwards from conventional wisdom, finding a copy of their third and final album – 1994’s Slow Buildings – in a pawn shop CD bin in the mid-’90s. It’s not the one most would recommend since by this point, Ian Masters – the band’s founder and vocalist […]
Okay, the provenance of this performance is a little misleading as Mogwai were nowhere near KEXP’s Seattle studios in March but extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures and all that. Unable to tour or perform for an audience after releasing one of their best records in February, the band took to streaming performances from a […]
When Tom Verlaine reformed Television in 1992, fourteen years after splitting up, he famously didn’t want to even call the outfit Television, preferring to consider their new work in a fresh context, rather than an extension of the two landmark records he, Richard Lloyd, Billy Fica, and Fred Smith crafted in the late ’70s. And […]
Maybe it was just an assumption on the writer’s part, but that a review of Jehnny Beth and Bobby Gillespie’s new single in The Guardian this weekend referred to her as “former Savages singer” made me kind of sad. Granted, it’s not news that the band is on hiatus – they declared as much at […]
It doesn’t happen often, but I do on occasion go down a synthesizer rabbit hole where I become convinced I need a 3-octave – minimum – analog polysynth in my life. The only thing that stops me from getting some vintage monstrosity freighted to me is the fact that I can see the one synth […]
I didn’t watch the Super Bowl this year (or most years), so I didn’t know Siouxsie & The Banshees had had a moment thanks to The Weeknd. He’d sampled the opening riff of “Happy House” – the first single and lead track from the band’s 1980 album Kaleidoscope – for the title track from his […]
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 […]
