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After an eternity of variable length – 16 years since their last studio album, five years since it was recorded, two years since Robert Smith revealed its title, and over a year since the world tour for it concluded, The Cure’s Songs From A Lost World is finally out… or so I’m told, as no […]
I included a typically poor quality version of this live Siouxsie & The Banshees performance in my “Halloween” Halloween post in 2021, but since then some kind soul has remastered the clip of them performing at Warwick University in 1981 for BBC’s Rock Goes To College series such that it’s worth re-sharing, including these notes […]
Catalyzed by the passing of founding guitarist Andy Gill in 2020, Gang Of Four reformed their almost-original lineup in 2022 for a legacy-celebrating world tour to coincide with the 77-81 box set. They have since declared that 2025 will be the year they say farewell, with one more North American tour slated for next year […]
And here we are with taste number two of The Cure’s forthcoming Songs Of A Lost World. “A Fragile Thing” is, as Robert Smith put it in a video interview clip reported on by NME: “It’s the ‘love song’ of the album, but it’s not really a love song in the way that [1989’s] ‘Lovesong’ […]
So here it is, more than 16 years after the last new official single from The Cure, the first taste of their new album Songs Of A Lost World, officially set for release on November 1. Let’s put aside for now the fact that they’ve promised this record for almost two years now and already […]
Thanks again to KEXP for being an unending fount of great content this Fall – this time, it’s The Chameleons who stopped in at the Seattle radio station’s studios during the west coast leg of their Strange Times tour this Summer. The played a generous six-song set with four of the Strange Times album tracks, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Cure have no shortage of greatest hits compilations, but 2001’s Greatest Hits was probably the most comprehensive, what with the band not really having anything you could call a hit after it came out – none of Bloodflowers, The Cure, or 4:13 Dream really tore up the charts. First pressings of Greatest Hits came […]
