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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 […]
To mark the 30th anniversary of The House Of Love’s self-titled debut and its four millionth re-release (this time a 5-CD set comprising the album, b-sides, demos, the John Peel Sessions already released in 2000, and an era-correct collection of live tracks), Cherry Red Records sat Guy Chadwick and Terry Bickers down on a patio […]
A very young, three-piece Cure perform the Seventeen Seconds classic in Belgium in July 1981.
If you were to tell me I could only have one guitar pedal, first I would say, “no way in hell”, but if pressed, I suspect I’d opt for my ProCo Rat 2. The specifics are lost to the mists of time but I think it’s a late ’80s model that I got it around […]
A reminder that anything you see today about the third Monday in January being the saddest day of the year is nonsense created by an advertising cohmpany to promote travel bookings, and that the joke is absolutely on them this year. Or it would be if the company that solicited the campaign was still in […]
The Sundays’ debut album Reading, Writing & Arithmetic turns 31 years old today, and so I grudgingly salute the bands ability and willingness to remain disappeared completely after wrapping their Static & Silence tour in December 1997. Aside from some Record Store Day releases of their three albums in the last few years that sell […]
There was rightly an outpouring of coverage when legendary graphic designer Vaughan Oliver – responsible for the visual language of 4AD records from its inception through the late ’90s – sadly passed away in December of 2019. Long Live Vinyl was fortunate enough to talk to Oliver about his work in August of 2018.
Even relative to his immensely otherworldly and experimental discography, Brian Eno’s Another Green World stands out as an especially magical record (Fripp!). And I’m not too embarrassed to admit that I was led into exploring Eno’s solo work – particularly the more conventional rock/vocal records of the ’70s – through a movie soundtrack. “The Big […]
