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It was Dean Wareham’s birthday a few days ago, so here’s a hug of a tribute to the man. I’m one of those who hold his work with Luna far closer to his heart than the Galaxie 500 records, but suspect I’m in the minority with that. In any case, we’re going with the band’s […]
In honour of the fact that my friends and I are able to go back into a rehearsal space to make noise every few weeks for the first time in over a year and a half, here’s a YouTube rip of an early Magazine bootleg record, BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert. Recorded on November […]
After Slowdive disbanded in 1994, principals Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell, and drummer Ian McCutcheon regrouped almost immediately as Mojave 3, releasing their debut Ask Me Tomorrow in 1995. Quiet, elegant, and sparse, it seemed a flipside to Slowdive’s then-final record Pygmalion, sharing its appreciation for space, though trading its electronic DNA for acoustic. As it […]
Existing as a sort of perfect hybrid of post-punk and dreampop served up with “anthemic” turned to 10, Gothenberg’s Makthaverskan didn’t make any videos for their last full-length, 2017’s III, but did record a wonderfully low-budget two-song session for their label that served the same purpose. They followed up with a two-song 7″ for “Demands” […]
I do love me some melodrama, so the third single from Siouxsie & The Banshees‘ 1988 album Peepshow certainly hit the spot. All slow burn and build and featuring one of Sioux’s best vocal performances, it’s an all-timer. The version recorded at the final stop of the Lollapalooza 1991 tour in Washington state was deemed […]
I’ve sampled Killing Joke’s discography at various points in their four-decade career, and for whatever reason the only record of theirs that really does anything for me – so far, at least – is 1985’s Night Time. Not any kind of surprise, I guess, since it was their biggest record and had their most successful […]
Guitar pedal demo videos are a dime a dozen these days, but those by proper musical legends such as Colin Newman of Wire are rather rarer. That’s why this 10-minute video with him exploring the Eventide H9 multi-effects – which he’s used with Wire as well as his Immersion and Githead projects – while discussing […]
The last preview track from English trio Drug Store Romeos’ debut album offered a pretty much on-the-nose job of letting you know what to expect from The world within our bedrooms when it finally came out last Friday: Hazy pop given form by Broadcast-y keyboards and personality by singer Sarah Downie’s wispy vocals, reminiscent of […]
Pale Saints are a band I started out with backwards from conventional wisdom, finding a copy of their third and final album – 1994’s Slow Buildings – in a pawn shop CD bin in the mid-’90s. It’s not the one most would recommend since by this point, Ian Masters – the band’s founder and vocalist […]
Okay, the provenance of this performance is a little misleading as Mogwai were nowhere near KEXP’s Seattle studios in March but extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures and all that. Unable to tour or perform for an audience after releasing one of their best records in February, the band took to streaming performances from a […]
