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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 […]
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 […]
