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Tragically, there is a dearth of live Cocteau Twins footage only – certainly no complete shows from Rockpalast or the BBC archives – so while it’s grainy and the audio is not fantastic, this 20-minute clip taken from a Swedish television broadcast of a mini-gig at a small tavern called Lord Nelson in Örebro, Sweden […]
In between the release of their 2017 masterwork III and last year’s För Allting, Swedish dream-punks Makthaverskan kept pretty quiet, save for the release of a single 7″ in January of 2019 with “Demands”/”Onkel”. It was described at the time by their label as: The A-side is the band in classic form: jangly guitars, memorable […]
Even though this is only the second Hallowe’en I’ve been doing this blog, I have not been judicious about keeping content aside for the holiday because I’ve already gone through the lowest of hanging fruit. Thankfully, you don’t have to dig too deep into the Bauhaus catalog to find something suitably spooky and seasonal, so […]
Like all good, reasonable legacy acts, Echo & The Bunnymen have been doing some archive-diving the last little while and been posting live shows and performances on their YouTube channel (the one that says “Official”, the other one is apparently not official, hence it doesn’t say official). I’ll probably be raiding that for a while […]
Though not one of my favourite Siouxsie & The Banshees singles – it was the lead single and closing track from 1982’s A Kiss In The Dreamhouse – “Slowdive” gets respect for not only being the namesake for one of my favourite bands ever1, but for producing this video which forces Budgie, Steven Severin, and […]
Today was always going to be a Cure day with the 30th anniversary reissue of Wish originally scheduled for today, but the street date has been pushed back to November 25, when the vinyl was originally scheduled to come out. But with that also being the Black Friday Record Store Day, and a special picture […]
A couple of true things about Dundalk, Ireland’s Just Mustard. One, that’s a bad band name. Sorry. Second, while a lot of adjectives apply – shoegaze, goth, electronic, industrial, post-punk – they all combine quite nicely on the band’s second record Heart Under for a decidedly discomfiting – in the best way – listening experience. […]
It’s a bit of an odd thing to end up being the source of news about one of your favourite bands that you’d rather be reading about than writing, but here we are. The Chameleons continue their interesting/frustrating habit of putting out new releases without going to too much trouble to let people know about […]
Much is made of how much music is available on streaming services, but finding stuff there can be a nightmare. But sometimes you stumble across something great, even if you’re just searching for song names to match your toddler son’s favourite ancient statue. There’s plenty of live Television shows out there, mostly from the band’s […]
Object 47 – so named because it was the 47th entry in Wire’s official discography – came at an interesting time in the band’s existence. Coming five years after Send and the Read & Burn EPs heralded their return and relevance in the 21st century, it found the band in unknown territory with founding guitarist […]
