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When I went looking to see if there were any decent, complete Radio Dept shows on the YouTube, I did not expect to find one from Mongolia but hey – the world is a big place. The band were headlining the Playtime Festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia while on tour for their 2016 release Running Out […]
Typically, releasing one of the best records of the year and then touring the world despite a pandemic would be enough to keep a band busy, but somehow London’s Dry Cleaning have also found the time to record the follow-up to last year’s New Long Leg and will release Stumpwork on October 21. According to […]
I spend an inordinate amount of time researching what kind of equipment players who were so skint they played whatever the could find and afford. It’s not healthy. Case in point, the delicious clangy tone that Daniel Ash got on those early Bauhaus records – not some meticulously crafted tone recipe involving sacrificial blood or […]
Considering how well they melded shoegaze, dreampop, krautrock, and electronic influences with an unerring pop sense, School Of Seven Bells should have gotten more love from not just me, but everyone. I mean, I did listen to and enjoy all of their records, but for whatever reason, never became one of my all-timers and whenever […]
What we have here is a fan-remastered video of some of the contents of FACT37, the VHS and/or Betamax released in September 1982, entitled Here Are The Young Men, which collected footage of Joy Division performing a two-night stand at the Apollo Theatre in Manchester while on tour for Unknown Pleasures. Clearly a bootleg source, […]
No I haven’t watched the latest season of Stranger Things yet, but the fact that Kate Bush is having an unexpected pop cultural moment because of a sync has been inescapable this week, though I’m more taken aback by the fact that the iTunes chart is still a thing? Like people are still buying MP3s? […]
While I knew that Lush released “Hypocrite” as the first single from their third record Split – a barnburner of a track, it got radio play in those days when bands like Lush got played on the radio – I did not know that they released a second video and single that same day, May […]
It’ll be five years in September since we last got a full-length from Toronto’s Alvvays, which is kind of crazy – that’s the sort of layoff you expect from veteran artists who’ve settled into a slower pace of working rather than hungry young bands with a strong tailwind of acclaim and adulation behind them, but […]
Depending on who you ask A Spy In The House Of Love, the 1990 release from The House Of Love, is either a compilation of b-sides and rarities – this is what Wikipedia says – or the band’s unofficial third studio album – we’ll call this the Discogs reviews position. Guy Chadwick goes with the […]
Just going to keep carrying on with some Slowdive love because I just got back from seeing them in Madrid at Tomavistas. As I mentioned last week, it’s been about five years since I saw them last and the set list wasn’t too far from what they were playing then, right up until almost the […]
