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Videos, live performances, documentaries. Moving pictures. Talkies.
I got a promo copy Colossal Youth, the landmark debut album and blueprint for minimalist pop from Cardiff’s Young Marble Giants’, on the occasion of its 2007 release as Colossal Youth & Collected Works and of course, I didn’t listen to it. But I did keep it when many other promos disappeared to who knows […]
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Cocteau Twins’ final studio album Milk & Kisses, Spin talked to bassist Simon Raymonde about the making of the record and the band’s final days. I literally traversed the globe looking for one of the 2017 Record Store Day double-disc presses of this record (struck out in […]
I could have sworn the first place I heard The Sound was on the TV or more accurately, on my phone as I watched episodes of downloaded TV on my way to work, don’t @ me) and I assumed that the show was Deadly Class – the one-season comic-book adaptation of an assassin’s school boasting […]
Finding info on indie Japanese bands is not so easy; I had to sift through three bands with the same name (and one anime series) just to make sure I had the right people in the promo photo. But as far as I’ve been able to discern, they’re a four-piece from Shiga prefecture in Japan, […]
It bewildered me that this song was not an official single from Gang Of Four‘s 1979 debut Entertainment!, but according to this piece at 53rd and 3rd, the band refused to allow it to go to radio because it was too accessible. Which was a very Gang Of Four thing to do, and in the […]
While its presence on the YouTubes is a little dubious – it was commercially released on DVD in 2008 – the world is a better place for the ability to watch Talk Talk perform in stunning quality at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in July 11th 1986, circa The Colour Of Spring, and part […]
In honour of the 29th anniversary of Ride’s Going Blank Again – March 9, 1992 – here’s the video for the second track and the second single from the album and the clip from their live Live At Brixton DVD included as a bonus on the 2012 20th anniversary reissue of the album.
NME premiered the new video from The Psychedelic Furs‘ 2020 album Made Of Rain yesterday. It kind of keeps with the slow rollout of everything around this record – 30 years in the making, release date delayed by three months, first video out seven months ago, but I guess that’s one of the perks of […]
I was genuinely surprised when I went to grab my copy of Guy Chadwick’s 1998 solo album Lazy, Soft & Slow and found that I no longer had it. I’m not sure what I was thinking – it wasn’t heavy rotation, by any means, but his sole musical output in the decade between The House […]
One of my favourite musical finds of the last few years, I would classify Copenhagen’s Lowly as “dreampop”, but reluctantly so. In fact I’ve spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time trying to find the words to justify it, but the right ones elude me… kind of like finding clear meaning in a dream that’s so […]
