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When I started up this blog I was afraid it’d turn into a kind of Wire fansite, so obsessed was I with exploring their expansive back catalog. Well I’m no less a fan these days, but they do make up a smaller percentage of my overall listening. But that’s no excuse for having not done […]
At a casual glance of their discography, you might think that Echo & The Bunnymen‘s cover of Television’s “Friction” was a live staple for the band in the ’80s – it certainly seems to appear on a lot of releases, both official and unofficial. But as it turns out, there seems to be only the […]
Dry Cleaning made their name the old fashioned way with a run of critically acclaimed singles and EPs long before dropping an album, and even they’ve graduated to two critically acclaimed full-lengths, they still love the abbreviated formats. Earlier this week, they announced they were coming out with a new extended play in the Swampy […]
I appreciate how the automatic subtitles for this one on YouTube open with “Pensive post-punk music”. Yes, it is. Happy Valentine’s Day from The Cure! The third single from their 1989 opus Disintegration is probably one of their most famous and beloved, and was maybe the first Cure song I ever heard. It remains one […]
After well over a decade of well-earned retirement, Siouxsie Sioux has announced her return to the stage this year with a smattering of shows in Europe and the US, her first live appearances since participating in Yoko Ono’s Meltdown fest in 2013. Her last proper tour was in support of her first – and last, […]
I guess bloggers grieve with content dumps. While I’ve been marking the passing of Tom Verlaine by constantly collecting and updating my memorial piece – if you’ve not been since Monday, there’s a lot more good stuff there, including tributes from Patti Smith and Dean Wareham – bootleg Tumblr Doom & Gloom From The Tomb […]
Tom Verlaine has died. Frontman and guitarist of Television, Verlaine – born Tom Miller – was a musician and guitarist whose influence on modern rock music is immeasurable, despite his band always remaining a cult – albeit a large cult – concern. He has certainly been one of my favourite players, alongside bandmate Richard Lloyd, […]
Well this turned into a bit of a time machine/rabbit hole. At the end of last year as part of their ongoing archive exhumations, Echo & The Bunnymen added this clip of Ian McCulloch playing “the greatest song ever written” solo, acoustic, backstage before a show. I was extra-excited to see that this was recorded […]
Electronic pioneer Gary Numan has long-remained one of my musical blindspots, despite his massive influence on so much of what I listen to these days. A suggestion over the holidays from one of my jam buddies that we tackle this arrangement of the classic from Replicas has taken care of that, though, as this version […]
I’m going to close out the week/ring in the holidays with this entirely non-seasonal video session that Dry Cleaning recorded for Bandcamp at their Oakland offices back in September. It was the first leg of their North American tour behind album number two, Stumpwork, even though the record wouldn’t be released for another month after […]
