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I’m kind of hype-averse to the point of self-detriment – Not in a house, not with a mouse, not in a box, not with a fox! – but thought my initial disinterest in the Isle Of Wight’s hottest musical export since I have no idea who else is from the Isle Of Wight was based […]
As a novice to The Fall, I’m not one to suggest entry points into their massive discography but as someone who enjoys pop as much as any or all of the (relatively) weird stuff covered hereabouts, you could do much worse than the 1987 single “Hit The North”. The closing track to their 1988 record […]
I haven’t dug into the Rockpalast archives in a while, so here’s one that coincides with my re-immersing myself in the Wire discography (I took a breather for a little while, there). This February, 1979 performance is notable because it was the source for the band’s 2004 live CD/DVD set On The Box 1979. Chronologically, […]
Anniversary thinkpieces have become one of the cornerstones of media criticism/journalism and while a lot of it is just digital noise, sometimes great records beget great writing. This is not to say that everything written about Television’s 1977 debut album Marquee Moon is brilliant – although the record itself unequivocally is – there has been […]
I’ve no shame in admitting that I only became a proper Psychedelic Furs fan with 2020’s Made Of Rain and so while they’ve hardly been strangers to local stages since reforming in 2000, I’ve never seen them live. So count me as excited that I will be seeing them when they tour said record through […]
To mark my first show of the year last night, and the third in 28 months, here’s the vid for the title track of Yard Act’s debut album, The Overload. Yeah, that sentence was a mouthful but so are most/all of their songs, with the elevator pitch on the Leeds outfit being “a cross between […]
It’s no esoteric bit of trivia that The Cure’s Robert Smith joined Siouxsie & The Banshees in 1983, stepping in on guitar after John McGeoch left in October 1982 following a nervous breakdown just prior to the release of A Kiss In The Dreamhouse. This was the second time he joined the Banshees, having previously […]
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 […]
Saluting of one of the most satisfying combinations of melody and gibberish, “Kidney Bingos”, the single from Wire’s 1988 album A Bell Is A Cup… Until It Is Struck. In a 1988 interview with McGill University radio station CKUT, Colin Newman offered these thoughts on the song: “There’s always been a very strong pop element […]
This year marks the 40th anniversary of XTC’s fifth album, English Settlement, a record that represents the inflection point in the band’s career between the frantic, high-energy post-punk they made their name with to the more orchestrated, pastoral sounds that defined the remainder of their active years. It also marked the final record that the […]
