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After the initial dissolution of Tokyo Shoegazer in 2013, three of the remaining members opted to continue playing together and formed a new band, CQ, that was less constrained by genre – after all, when you’re called Tokyo Shoegazer, some assumptions on the part of the listener are inevitable. As drummer Hiroshi Sasabuchi told The […]
Following a break to return home to the UK to recharge, The Chameleons kicked off the second leg of their Strange Times North American tour last week, running through next week before breaking again for a final run of US dates in October. I’m particularly looking forward to tomorrow night’s show in Toronto as last […]
The Cure have no shortage of greatest hits compilations, but 2001’s Greatest Hits was probably the most comprehensive, what with the band not really having anything you could call a hit after it came out – none of Bloodflowers, The Cure, or 4:13 Dream really tore up the charts. First pressings of Greatest Hits came […]
Because sometimes, it’s just the right time for some Durutti Column, and that time is now. This here is a quite good live set circa The Return Of/LC – aka at their very best – at a mini-festival in Finland in the Summer of 1981 featuring a number of Factory Records bands, including Vini Reilly […]
Tom Verlaine is not an artist you ever would have thought would seek mainstream success, but the ’80s were a weird time, and even someone outsider as him wasn’t beyond seeing if there was some room on MTV for the likes of him. So 1987’s Flash Light – his fifth post-Television album – produced a […]
I’m old enough to remember seeing the original The Crow in theatres – a cool movie, but not a good movie – and also the ubiquity of the soundtrack, which opened with what I think is now regarded as one of The Cure’s greatest non-album tracks, “Burn”. It’s the 30th anniversary of the film – […]
While fans have been blessed with a steady stream of archival releases, live documents, and reissues it has been almost a quarter-century since there’s been new music from The Chameleons proper: 2021’s Why Call It Anything?, which the band – reunited after after 15 years – managed to write, track, and tour before in-fighting and […]
I’m seeing Echo & The Bunnymen tonight for the first time in about 13 years, part of their Songs To Learn & Sing greatest hits tour, so I’ll just leave this 1983 single from Porcupine right here, along with this piece on the origins and meaning on the song from Far Out which, while it […]
The dearth of quality footage from The Sound is one of the great injustices of the internet age, so on occasions such as this rather than bemoan the low quality of this footage from the band’s performance in Madrid, Spain in 1984 – broadcast on La Edad de Oro – we’ll just be grateful it […]
The Cure are re-releasing their 1993 live album Paris today, recorded in October 1992 at Le Zenith at the very edge of the 19th arrondissement . It was their second live record released that year, following Show, but unlike that document there was no accompanying video release, which is a shame because the track list […]
