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I certainly didn’t mean to make this a mini-theme week, but I’m not mad at it. Big news today in the form of the announcement of the fourth instalment of New Order’s “Definitive” reissue series – Brotherhood: The Definitive Edition is out on November 22 and includes nine new tracks not previously included in any […]
This past Saturday’s excellent Peter Hook & The Light show at History, where they kicked off their North American tour featuring recitals of both Joy Division and New Order’s Substance singles compilations. I’d seen Hooky and his crew a couple years ago when they ran through both JD albums and knew that they did a […]
In honour of Ladytron’s piecemeal tour in support of last year’s Time’s Arrow finally making it to Toronto tonight, here’s a look at their breakout single from 2001 debut 604 – if by “breakout”, I mea the first sone of theirs I heard and not any kind of actual chart/commercial success. “Playgirl” appeared as the […]
Japanese dreampop and shoegaze as a scene is hardly dour, but Kyoto’s MoritaSaki In The Pool bring an extra level of fun and whimsy to things without getting too twee or saccharine. That, and their dual boy-girl vocals from Riku Ishihara and Natsumi Heike, is their unique selling proposition and looks to be in full […]
Ride have had a busy year touring their new record Interplay since it dropped at the end of March, so far covering the UK, North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and with another run of UK and US dates coming this Fall – and that’s not covering another North American run at the very start […]
After the initial dissolution of Tokyo Shoegazer in 2013, three of the remaining members opted to continue playing together and formed a new band, CQ, that was less constrained by genre – after all, when you’re called Tokyo Shoegazer, some assumptions on the part of the listener are inevitable. As drummer Hiroshi Sasabuchi told The […]
Sad news from The House Of Love camp; Guy Chadwick took to Facebook last week to announce the passing of guitarist/vocalist Andrea Heukamp. We only just heard the sad news of the passing of Andrea Heukamp who died in 2022. Andrea was in the band at the start until she left to go home to […]
I do like it when my personal Instagram, wherein I share pics from my ever=aging concert photo archives, intersects with this blog because it usually means I can save myself some writing on one end or the other. Case in point – today’s release of Velocity Girl’s UltraCopacetic, which revisits and rejuvenates their 1993 debut […]
Every once in a while I remember that I will be seeing Hammer Head Shark not once but twice in a couple months when they come to town as part of Next Music From Tokyo, and get super-excited. More excited than my single post on the band to date would imply. So to properly increase […]
Following a break to return home to the UK to recharge, The Chameleons kicked off the second leg of their Strange Times North American tour last week, running through next week before breaking again for a final run of US dates in October. I’m particularly looking forward to tomorrow night’s show in Toronto as last […]
