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10:20 is a curious entry in Wire’s discography, especially since it’s their last release to date of “new” music but actually is a lot of old music, made new again, but not at the same time. This might sound confusing, but is rather par for the course for an act that as much as they’re […]
Another one from the depths of obscurity, but this one doesn’t have the same backstory of discovery that Ozean did… in fact there’s no backstory at all, which makes it more compelling/frustrating. About all that’s known about Baby Formula is on their Bandcamp page, and that they’re from Beijing, China and released their debut self-titled […]
If you’re the sort to have gone on expeditions for new music of the shoegaze/dreampop variety beyond the usual suspects over the past, oh, quarter century or so, you’ve probably heard the name Ozean, probably spoken of in hushed tones (or whatever the equivalent of hushed tones on Usenet boards was). An outfit from the […]
The Marvel Team-Up I didn’t know I needed… in the Spring of 1996, Lush toured the US with Mojave 3 on what they called the Sharing The Pavement tour in Spring of 1996. The pairing made sense from the perspective of them being 4AD labelmates as well as leading lights of shoegaze in past lives, […]
The Durutti Column doesn’t just “turn up” a lot in one’s day to day life so when they do, as this track did in a recent episode of The Bear – awesome show with an awesome soundtrack – a little rabbit holing is in order. Like the rest of the album from whence it comes […]
Still Corners are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their second album Strange Pleasures today with a remastered reissue. It’s a record that marked their pivot from a band crafting retro, cinematic dreampop into a duo exploring more synthesized territory and marked an unwillingness to stay in one stylistic spot for too long, a trait that […]
Time is relative in the world of Slowdive. Yes, it has been six years since their triumphant comeback self-title, but that was 22 years on from Pygmalion and it helps that Slowdive was and remains endlessly re-listenable. But this is not to say that a new record hasn’t been anxiously awaited and as promised by […]
Quite an eventful week last week for fans of My Bloody Valentine, particularly those who sling guitars themselves. No, they didn’t finally release the new music they’ve been promising since… fuck, who even remembers. At least not in the conventional sense… So to begin with, Kevin Shields finally announced he and the legendary guitar manufacturer […]
Not that I should need a lot of prodding, but this recent feature at The Guitar Magazine exhorting the brilliance of Magazine’s 1978 debut album Real Life has me dipping back into those early days of post-punk. The article does a good job looking at the band’s formation, with a post-Buzzcocks Howard Devoto coming together […]
A little retroactive housekeeping today, the day I finally cross The Cure off my live bucket list. I’ve done a couple posts focusing on their Seventeen Seconds classic “A Forest”, but both have some notable content omissions I’m rectifying now. One of my earliest posts was a live clip from 1981 of the band playing […]
