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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
I need to get back to my original intent of dropping quick bits of whatever without lots of commentary, so here’s the video for Lush’s second single, released October 15, 1990, and included in their not-their-first-album-but-generally-regarded-as-their-first-album Gala. I’d actually never seen this vid nor the original single art before putting this post together, so we’ll […]
Nottingham’s Six By Seven hit the scene in the late ’90s with a blend of psych/Kraut/post/punk/prog/space-rock that was timeless yet completely out of step with the musical trends of the times. Their 1998 debut The Things We Make was a study in drone and tension and the 2000 follow-up, The Closer You Get, remains one […]
Not that I’m the sort of person to rank such things but while it’s always been up there, Slowdive’s 1993 masterpiece Souvlaki can make a pretty strong claim to being my favourite record of all-time. And if anyone were to ask “why”, I’d just point them to the opening track even though being the poppiest […]
In those golden days of last Fall when the pandemic seemed to have eased up enough to allow bands to perform audience-less club shows for online consumption, a bunch of up-and-coming Toronto acts recorded a series of covers sets at the Monarch Tavern as Class Of T.O. One of those was up-and-coming psychedelic outfit Mother […]
It’s generally acknowledged that Ride broke up in 1996, just before the release of their fourth album Tarantula, and that they reunited in 2014 initially for live shows and then for a couple of excellent new records and counting. However, it’s important to note that that wasn’t the first time that Andy, Mark, Loz, and […]
Something to get you through the day. A month or so before Slowdive released their 2017 self-titled album, they played a gig at a tiny 600-capacity venue in London to preview the new material. Thankfully the gig was livestreamed and archived and is available to watch and enjoy and be reminded of:a) how great live […]
How successful are Chromatics at creating their own synthetic cinematic film noir world? A simple task like finding one of their freaking videos to post just because I feel like it became a rabbit hole into the Italians Do It Better roster, all their remixes and limited EPs, all their videos, Johnny Jewel’s favoured synthesizers […]
Belly’s debut album Star turns 28 years old today, meaning it’s been 28 years since I was tipped off to the record by a friend whose tastes normally ran to Faith No More than 4AD. But I thank him for the recommendation because Tanya Donelly and company have been one of my favourite bands for […]
30 years in the making, The Psychedelic Furs‘ Made Of Rain was one of two records locked into my 2020 year-end list when I began compiling it at the end of December. This is notable because prior to midway through the year, my Furs diet consisted of very occasional run-throughs of their All Of This […]
One of the greatest <insert term here> ever. No matter what you put in that phrase – “Songs”? “Recordings”? “Title tracks”? “Performances”? – it would be accurate. Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd’s interlocking guitars and alternating solos are just epic and a clinic in awesome. Effusive much? Yes, but I can’t not hear that opening […]
