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Boston’s Sweeping Promises didn’t really get to capitalize on the enthusiasm for their 2020 debut Hunger For A Way Out because, well, 2020, but they’re coming out of 2021 with something to get excited about – they’ve signed to Sub Pop and marked the occasion with a new song that may or may not appear […]
Terrific news/non-news at the end of last week that Electrelane – who went on hiatus in 2007 after a few albums of critically-acclaimed but generally underappreciated post-punk in the early part of the aughts – were in the early stages of writing new material for the first time in a decade and a half: I […]
File this under “obvious” as we go into Hallowe’en weekend with this contribution from Siouxsie & The Banshees. Despite being a standout track on 1981’s Juju – an album full of them – “Halloween” wasn’t a single and as such, there’s no official video to share. Instead, we’ve got audio from the original album: As […]
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 a very busy week but it’s also Hallowe’en week so I’m just going to chuck some classic goth-y material at you to get through the month. We’ll start with The Cure and “Charlotte Sometimes”, a non-album, post-Faith single released in October 1981 and based on a 1969 children’s novel.
Simon Gallup has quit The Cure except no, he hasn’t quit The Cure. It’s unclear if in the months between point A and point B if he actually missed out on any work duties since the band aren’t touring and next album Live From The Moon was supposed to have been almost done since last […]
In retrospect it’s more surprising that I’m even discovering Life Without Buildings now, than that it took me 20-plus years to discover them. Their only record Any Other City came out in 2001, when music discovery tools like Napster were put to work more finding Manic Street Preachers b-sides than hearing stuff completely new to […]
The House Of Love’s 1988 self-titled debut gets all the praise, but I actually prefer their second album – also technically self-titled but colloquially known as Fontana on account of their new label after leaving Creation or “the butterfly album” for the insect gracing the album cover – as I find it sonically richer and […]
Whilst cruising The Chameleons’ online store looking for things to buy yesterday, I happened upon this listing for a new release – Elevated Living: Live in Manchester, London, and Barcelona – a new CD/DVD set compiling three of their early live shows which have been kicking around as bootleg and unofficial releases for many years. […]
It seems a bit perverse that I’ve gone, what, more than nine months writing a blog about post-punk and other things, and have yet to make any real mention of Joy Division, arguably one of if not the biggest and most important band of the genre. And that’s kind of why… I couldn’t imagine what […]
