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Vini Reilly’s 2023 interview with The Guardian has stayed with me in a way that not a lot of the entertainment media that I consume has. While it’s not unusual for artists to quietly withdraw from releasing new material as they get older, the details of The Durutti Column’s silence – specifically the stroke he […]
So both Joy Division and New Order were just inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, and the big question around that is if the members of those bands will attend, and if so, how will they interact? Given the public bad blood between Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner over the last two […]
Since COVID stopped Wire’s 2020 tour in support of Mind Hive in its tracks, there doesn’t seem to have even been the discussion of the band returning to any kind of ongoing activity. Colin Newman has kept busy with Immersion, Matthew Sims has a new project in Memorials, and Graham Lewis put out his first […]
Just a quick one as I board a very early, very long flight for – three guesses, first two don’t count. “Hong Kong Garden” was Siouxsie & The Banshees’ very first single, released in August 1978, and actually has nothing to do with the titular city-state. It’s named for a Chinese restaurant in London they […]
Probably unfairly to the other two members of the band, I had always framed Fear Of Men as Jessica Weiss’ project so when she began releasing solo music as New German Cinema a few years ago, I wasn’t sure what the differentiation was. The production was a more synthetic as befits someone writing on a […]
We’ve not had much news from Savages in a while, beyond updates of the members’ various solo projects which really just affirm that Savages are continuing to do nothing as a band. So a dispatch this week marking the decade anniversary of their second (and final, to date) record Adore Life was an unexpected treat, […]
This was kinda going to be a holiday post but the holidays got busy, as they do, and I didn’t get around to it in time. But considering that the song – despite a certain bit of window dressing – is not a holiday song, that’s probably okay. “Red Over White” was a Siouxsie & […]
There’s never a bad time to revisit The Sound but a recent feature piece in Uncut is the reasoning for my current listening session. Using the recent uptick in interest in the late Adrian Borland’s outfit – specifically the 2016 documentary Walking In The Opposite Direction, the 2023 biography Destiny Stopped Screaming: The Life and […]
Swedish dream-post-punks Makthaverskan are back with their first new record in four years, and if 2021’s For Alting seemed like they were taking their foot off the gas a little bit get a little more contemplative, new single “Pity Party” certainly implies they’ve had their little think and are ready to go full tilt again. […]
A little research revealed that The Cure’s “Lullaby”, off of 1989’s Disintegration, is considered by many to be the band’s spookiest – or most Hallowe’enie – track. Not what I would have expected, but considering I’ve already posted the other usual suspects – “Burn” and “A Forest” – we’ll go with this for today’s holiday […]
