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The common narrative for the first era of Ride is their early EPs and 1990 debut Nowhere are the hallowed records and shoegaze blueprints, 1992’s Going Blank Again perfecting the balance of noise and pop, but 1996’s Tarantula and their attempts to pivot to Britpop was too late and too bad, putting the band on […]
Wire’s penchant for revisiting and reconstructing old material is a topic I’ve meant to go deeper into for a while, but it’s not happening here or now. Instead, a selection from their latest official release, which is a wide release of a former limited release which was a re-release of a decades-old unofficial release. Not […]
One of the great things about a band with the longevity and prolificness as Cocteau Twins is that even 25 years after they disbanded, there is still more of their music to be discovered. The flip side of that is that finding this new music can be maddening. For example, the song “Crushed”, which appears […]
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 […]
