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Because I’m that kind of nerd, back in the day (the days in question being the ’90s), I would spend an inordinate amount of time both hunting down back issues of American and British guitar magazines and waiting for new issues of same to come out, mostly hoping for coverage of or better, song transcription […]
I was going to use this image on another post but went in another direction with that. But since I had already gone into my photo archives and re-processed it and hey – it’s my blog I can do what I want – I’ll just put it up on its own. This is Jenny Lee […]
I need to get back to my original intent of dropping quick bits of whatever without lots of commentary, so here’s the video for Lush’s second single, released October 15, 1990, and included in their not-their-first-album-but-generally-regarded-as-their-first-album Gala. I’d actually never seen this vid nor the original single art before putting this post together, so we’ll […]
Nottingham’s Six By Seven hit the scene in the late ’90s with a blend of psych/Kraut/post/punk/prog/space-rock that was timeless yet completely out of step with the musical trends of the times. Their 1998 debut The Things We Make was a study in drone and tension and the 2000 follow-up, The Closer You Get, remains one […]
Even though Robert Smith is on Twitter, he’s more about retweeting commentary on politics than chatting music (or maybe just avoiding questions on where the next Cure album is) so it fell on founding member and former drummer Lol Tolhurst to offer commentary on their 1982 record Pornography for #TimsTwitterListeningParty last October. The Cure / […]
Not that I’m the sort of person to rank such things but while it’s always been up there, Slowdive’s 1993 masterpiece Souvlaki can make a pretty strong claim to being my favourite record of all-time. And if anyone were to ask “why”, I’d just point them to the opening track even though being the poppiest […]
In those golden days of last Fall when the pandemic seemed to have eased up enough to allow bands to perform audience-less club shows for online consumption, a bunch of up-and-coming Toronto acts recorded a series of covers sets at the Monarch Tavern as Class Of T.O. One of those was up-and-coming psychedelic outfit Mother […]
I actually can’t remember if I first heard about John McGeoch’s playing before I actually heard him play, but a couple years ago I fell into a deep rabbit hole of his work and arguably still haven’t emerged. It’s really by following his crazy flanged guitar riffs through the catalogues of Magazine and Siouxsie & […]
It’s generally acknowledged that Ride broke up in 1996, just before the release of their fourth album Tarantula, and that they reunited in 2014 initially for live shows and then for a couple of excellent new records and counting. However, it’s important to note that that wasn’t the first time that Andy, Mark, Loz, and […]
Listings for a new Chameleons live record have had me a little confused of late, so I finally got around to doing the leg work to understanding what it is. The album is Return Of The Roughnecks – Live at The Ritz Manchester 1, and the description on many of the UK retailers implied that […]
