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In May 2019 – aka a million years ago – The Cure played a series of shows to mark the 30th anniversary of their landmark album Disintegration at the Sydney Opera House in Australia. It was hinted that there’d be more recitals of the record, but the remainder of their 2019 dates were more conventional […]
Existing as a sort of perfect hybrid of post-punk and dreampop served up with “anthemic” turned to 10, Gothenberg’s Makthaverskan didn’t make any videos for their last full-length, 2017’s III, but did record a wonderfully low-budget two-song session for their label that served the same purpose. They followed up with a two-song 7″ for “Demands” […]
I do love me some melodrama, so the third single from Siouxsie & The Banshees‘ 1988 album Peepshow certainly hit the spot. All slow burn and build and featuring one of Sioux’s best vocal performances, it’s an all-timer. The version recorded at the final stop of the Lollapalooza 1991 tour in Washington state was deemed […]
I’ve sampled Killing Joke’s discography at various points in their four-decade career, and for whatever reason the only record of theirs that really does anything for me – so far, at least – is 1985’s Night Time. Not any kind of surprise, I guess, since it was their biggest record and had their most successful […]
When Tom Verlaine reformed Television in 1992, fourteen years after splitting up, he famously didn’t want to even call the outfit Television, preferring to consider their new work in a fresh context, rather than an extension of the two landmark records he, Richard Lloyd, Billy Fica, and Fred Smith crafted in the late ’70s. And […]
Maybe it was just an assumption on the writer’s part, but that a review of Jehnny Beth and Bobby Gillespie’s new single in The Guardian this weekend referred to her as “former Savages singer” made me kind of sad. Granted, it’s not news that the band is on hiatus – they declared as much at […]
I didn’t watch the Super Bowl this year (or most years), so I didn’t know Siouxsie & The Banshees had had a moment thanks to The Weeknd. He’d sampled the opening riff of “Happy House” – the first single and lead track from the band’s 1980 album Kaleidoscope – for the title track from his […]
There’s been better-quality rips of Rockpalast shows, sure, but what this Gang Of Four clip lacks in fidelity, it makes up for in length and pure fire. Documenting the band’s performance from March 1983 at Zeche, in Bochum, West Germany in March 1983 while touring the band’s third record, Songs Of The Free. Clocking in […]
Anywhere’s a valid place to find good music recommendations, but a tip from Steve Coogan portraying the Lord Almighty is not an especially common one. Said scene came towards the end of 24 Hour Party People, Michael Winterbottom’s brilliant 2002 biopic on Factory Records’ Tony Wilson: “Vini Reilly, by the way, is way overdue a […]
I already got into the complexities of Wire’s early 2000s material last month, so let’s just consider this an extended footnote to that piece. But to sum up: after essentially disbanding a second time in 1991 following the release of Manscape and departure of drummer Robert Gotobed – including a short reincarnation as Wir – […]
