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Boston’s Sweeping Promises made a lot of noise with their debut Hunger For A Way Out last Summer, its combination of post-punk nerviness, strong pop hooks, and old-school, lo-fi college rock hitting a lot of peoples’ sweet spot. If you weren’t one of those won over by it, you probably just didn’t hear the record’s […]
I got a promo copy Colossal Youth, the landmark debut album and blueprint for minimalist pop from Cardiff’s Young Marble Giants’, on the occasion of its 2007 release as Colossal Youth & Collected Works and of course, I didn’t listen to it. But I did keep it when many other promos disappeared to who knows […]
Simon was actually more of a folky, Iron & Wine kind of guy but he appreciated all the meats of the musical stew in our household. This mix of three versions of The Cure’s moper – there’s their January 1981 John Peel session, the Faith studio version released in April 1981, and a live version […]
I never use the ‘save’ function in Facebook, so in accidentally doing so this morning I was reminded that I do in fact sometimes use the ‘save’ function in Facebook. And one of the things I saved almost five years ago was this retrospective feature at 4AD by Facing The Other Way author Martin Aston […]
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Cocteau Twins’ final studio album Milk & Kisses, Spin talked to bassist Simon Raymonde about the making of the record and the band’s final days. I literally traversed the globe looking for one of the 2017 Record Store Day double-disc presses of this record (struck out in […]
I could have sworn the first place I heard The Sound was on the TV or more accurately, on my phone as I watched episodes of downloaded TV on my way to work, don’t @ me) and I assumed that the show was Deadly Class – the one-season comic-book adaptation of an assassin’s school boasting […]
Finding info on indie Japanese bands is not so easy; I had to sift through three bands with the same name (and one anime series) just to make sure I had the right people in the promo photo. But as far as I’ve been able to discern, they’re a four-piece from Shiga prefecture in Japan, […]
It bewildered me that this song was not an official single from Gang Of Four‘s 1979 debut Entertainment!, but according to this piece at 53rd and 3rd, the band refused to allow it to go to radio because it was too accessible. Which was a very Gang Of Four thing to do, and in the […]
While its presence on the YouTubes is a little dubious – it was commercially released on DVD in 2008 – the world is a better place for the ability to watch Talk Talk perform in stunning quality at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in July 11th 1986, circa The Colour Of Spring, and part […]
In honour of the 29th anniversary of Ride’s Going Blank Again – March 9, 1992 – here’s the video for the second track and the second single from the album and the clip from their live Live At Brixton DVD included as a bonus on the 2012 20th anniversary reissue of the album.
