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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 […]
This is a touch redundant if you saw my Instagram yesterday but today, Peter Hook & The Light are releasing a triple-CD set of their July 2022 show at the Apollo O2 in Manchester. That was was the hometown date for their current “Joy Division – A Celebration” tour, which finds Hook and company performing […]
When Interpol’s landmark debut album Turn On The Bright Lights turned 10 back in 2012, the band marked it with a fancy-pants deluxe edition full-court press of interviews and recollections which I helpfully collated and notated last year: But time has munched on we’ve hit another nice round anniversary for a record which has, thankfully, […]
Here’s another complete live set from the good people at Primavera Sound, though this one is plucked more from their inbox than their vaults. It dates back to this past May and the 2022 edition of the festival, and features Dry Cleaning doing their thing in front of throngs of thousands. Anyone looking for a […]
“Temptation” might be one of New Order’s most famous and beloved tracks, but given the song’s twisty history, it’s not unreasonable to ask, “yes, but which ‘Temptation’?”. And there’s actually a very simple answer to that one, but we’ll get to that. The first documented appearance of the song was in the live film Taras […]
It has always perplexed me that The Cure’s most commercially successful record has been out of print on vinyl for 30 years, while the likes of Faith and 17 Seconds seem to get a new release every four or five years. Word was that the remastering of the record had been done for some time, […]
