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Even though this is only the second Hallowe’en I’ve been doing this blog, I have not been judicious about keeping content aside for the holiday because I’ve already gone through the lowest of hanging fruit. Thankfully, you don’t have to dig too deep into the Bauhaus catalog to find something suitably spooky and seasonal, so […]
I spend an inordinate amount of time researching what kind of equipment players who were so skint they played whatever the could find and afford. It’s not healthy. Case in point, the delicious clangy tone that Daniel Ash got on those early Bauhaus records – not some meticulously crafted tone recipe involving sacrificial blood or […]
There’s not a lot that counts as “drop everything” news when you’re writing about music that was largely released 20 to 30 years ago, but when one of the progenitors of the genre comes out with a new track for the first time in a decade and a half, it rates. Here, we’re talking about […]
Okay, a final FINAL footnote to the series of Shearwater posts. When the band rolled into the AV Club studios in March 2016, it actually wasn’t to perform the entirety of Lodger, as they did for eventual release. Their intended contribution to the Undercover series was to do this Bauhaus cover which is actually even […]
You can’t have a mini-goth week without a little Bauhaus so here’s a little Bauhaus. Released in April 1983, “She’s In Parties” was the only single from their fourth record Burning From the Inside and the band’s last commercial single overall. The song reached 26 on the UK charts and netted the band a performance […]
It’s quite a thing for a single song to be given credit for creating not just a musical genre, but an entire subculture but these are things that are attributed to Bauhaus’ 1979 debut single, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”, aka the song which begat goth. PopMatters ran a piece on the song’s importance and influence on […]
If all Brian Eno ever was release the solo records he did between 1973 and 1977 – from Here Come The Warm Jets through Before And After Science – his place in the annals of pop music would be assured. But no, he did it in between between founding Roxy Music, inventing ambient music, and […]
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 […]
