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How successful are Chromatics at creating their own synthetic cinematic film noir world? A simple task like finding one of their freaking videos to post just because I feel like it became a rabbit hole into the Italians Do It Better roster, all their remixes and limited EPs, all their videos, Johnny Jewel’s favoured synthesizers […]
Belly’s debut album Star turns 28 years old today, meaning it’s been 28 years since I was tipped off to the record by a friend whose tastes normally ran to Faith No More than 4AD. But I thank him for the recommendation because Tanya Donelly and company have been one of my favourite bands for […]
When I first started doing web development many many moons ago, Javascript was that annoying add-on that was super-picky about quotes and semicolons but was necessary for state-of-the-art tricks like rollovers and image swaps. Now, it’s the language that underpins pretty much everything on the web, that which keeps me employed, and more importantly, that […]
30 years in the making, The Psychedelic Furs‘ Made Of Rain was one of two records locked into my 2020 year-end list when I began compiling it at the end of December. This is notable because prior to midway through the year, my Furs diet consisted of very occasional run-throughs of their All Of This […]
One of the greatest <insert term here> ever. No matter what you put in that phrase – “Songs”? “Recordings”? “Title tracks”? “Performances”? – it would be accurate. Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd’s interlocking guitars and alternating solos are just epic and a clinic in awesome. Effusive much? Yes, but I can’t not hear that opening […]
Colin Newman and Matt Simms of Wire talked with Guitar Player magazine about their history, gear, and their 2020 album Mind Hive. Because they are guitar players. They speak a common language. Colin Newman and Matt Simms on the Glorious Noise in Wire’s Punk Sound @ Guitar Player
It’s one of my great regrets that I hung up the old blog before Alvvays put out their debut album, preventing me from properly gushing over the best new band to come out of Toronto in forever. I did, however, get to write them up while they were still “Always” and Molly was still brunette, […]
Here’s a dumb thing that has plagued me just a little for the last few years. In consolidating all my concert ticket stubs, media passes, and setlists from where they’d been residing in album covers, jewel cases, and file folders, I found a set list that appeared to be from My Bloody Valentine’s show at […]
Going back to the #TimsTwitterListeningParty well, and get used to it because there’s been lots of great stuff there. But I shall be judicious. Here, we’ve got Siouxsie & The Banshees’ 1980 record Kaleidoscope with commentary from drummer Budgie. He made his recording debut with the band on this album alongside new guitarist John McGeoch, […]
Belfast’s Girls Names traded in fairly on-the-nose post-punk – adjectives like “mournful”, “cold”, “dirgey” could equally apply to the vocals, guitars, drums, or synths – but when it clicked it evoked the best of the genre and they were at the top of their game on their 2013 album, The New Life. Their other albums […]
