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As one whose real-time experience with The Cure started with Wish, I still have a number of blind spots with their discography and so coming across this article in Paste about the 35th anniversary of their 1987 concert film The Cure In Orange was quite an eye-opener, as I a) didn’t know it existed and […]
The Jesus and Mary Chain released their landmark debut album Psychocandy way back in November 1985, which means despite putting together a remarkable career and releasing a number of good to great records, Jim and William Reid have been talking about Psychocandy for over 35 years. I went down this particular rabbit hole after seeing […]
I’m not a big podcast guy – I’d generally rather listen to music than listen to people talk – but I do like Song Exploder, even if I frequently forget that it’s around. Their latest episode reminded me they were, however, as well as the fact that I like Franz Ferdinand (though I guess not […]
Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant – a player who manages to be at the same time legendarily influential and criminally underrated – has been keeping himself busy through the pandemic promoting his memoirs Bunnyman: Post-War Kid to Post-Punk Guitarist of Echo and the Bunnymen, which was released in the UK last July and […]
Fact: the first three Wire albums are unimpeachable and if they had stayed broken up after releasing 154 in 1979, their place in music history would still be assured. But they didn’t stay broken up, and it shouldn’t be overlooked that their musical output since reuniting in 1987 is also very, very, very good. Their […]
Let’s kick of the last week before Christmas with the lowest-hanging of fruit for the season. In December 1993, just a couple months from releasing their major-label debut Four-Calendar Cafe, Cocteau Twins got into the festive spirit with Snow, a two-song EP comprised of covers of Christmas standards, albeit secular ones. A strange choice from […]
Something I realized as I started to watch this video is that despite hearing this song just shy of a million times, I have never seen the video. Maybe not so surprising considering that Elastica’s self-titled debut came out in 1995, when I was in university with no access to cable TV let alone MuchMusic. […]
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 […]
This year’s Gang Of Four tribute album The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration Of Gang Of Four is a genuine blast, with an A-list of acts managing to be both reverent and reinventive of the source material. One of the highlights, for me, is Warpaint’s take on the opening track of the band’s second album, […]
The Top is not an especially well-regarded Cure record, but if there’s one positive, it’s that the world tour in support of it yielded this live performance at the Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo in October 1984. It was recorded and released as the Live In Japan VHS tape in 1986, the band’s first live […]
