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Despite being perfectly timed to do so, I didn’t really participate in the initial wave of hype around the mid-aughts UK post-punk revival, and it remains one of my music blogger regrets because I would come to really love some of those records, not least among them the first Bloc Party record, 2004’s Silent Radar; […]
I’d meant to make some sort of mention of Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker’s passing since he died back in November, but just didn’t get to it until Adrian at Anyone Can Play Guitar posted his own lesson/tribute last month… and even then, it’s taken me weeks to get it done. As one of the […]
Last year, The Cure managed the remarkable feat of staging a world tour in support of an album that hadn’t been and still hasn’t been released. It wrapped in South America with an itinerary that included headlining slots at four Primavera Sound festivals, including Buenos Aires, Argentina in late November and São Paolo, Brazil in […]
There’s not a lot of good video footage from Sad Lovers and Giants out there, either live or promo video, so a complete live show – even if it’s not the original lineup responsible for their best records – is a treat. The audio of the show was originally released in 1999 as La Dolce […]
With the confirmation that the current lineup of The Chameleons is in the studio recording new music, let’s take a quick look back at the release that was supposed to be their fourth album following 1986’s Strange Times. But as is typical in the stories of bands who are doomed to be under-appreciated, fate intervened. […]
Taking a quick dip today into Magazine’s second album – 1979’s Secondhand Daylight – thanks to a guitar lesson from John McGeoch disciple Adrian from Anyone Can Play Guitar. He took a deep dive into “Rhythm Of Cruelty”, the only single released from the album, which reminded me what a great tune it was and […]
Just a quick one for today, in the form of the first complete live show of the year. It’s far from a professional video – no AI remastering here, no sir! – but the audio is surprisingly good and the front-row perspective, handheld handycam quality of the footage offers a compelling fly-on-the-wall quality to the […]
Upon seeing this news item at BrooklynVegan about Felt’s reissuing their 1985 Elizabeth Fraser-featuring, number one single from Ignite The Seven Cannons, particularly the part about the band having never made music videos, I was reminded that I posted about the song a couple years ago and specifically included a video for the song – […]
If Italian trio Be Forest are no longer – a reasonable thing to infer from the fact that their socials have been quiet since 2021 – they leave behind three solid records released over a decade, the most recent of which, 2019’s Knockturne, is as fine an example of icily atmospheric post-punk as you’ll find […]
Like many of their post-punk contemporaries who were not Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen or The Cure, if The Sound were to be described with one adjective, it would be underappreciated. They released five albums from 1980 to 1987, the first three of which – Jeopardy, From The Lion’s Mouth, and All Fall Down […]
