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Following an astonishing show in Toronto last night in support of their latest Sit Down For Dinner, a look back at Blonde Redhead’s finest moment, at least from my perspective. The New York trio have always been hard to pin down, stylistically, because their uniqueness keeps them from fitting neatly into any pigeonhole – noise? […]
In the west, album anniversaries are typically celebrated with a reissue, certainly, and usually some manner of remaster the benefits of which may or not be audible but which will certainly be used to justify a bump in MSRP of said reissue. Occasionally, there’ll be a full remix of the album by someone with credentials […]
Of all the new musical discoveries I’ve made this year, one that has remained in heavy rotation is St. Petersburg’s Blankenberge, whom I tried to properly celebrate back in June. They actually weren’t entirely new to me as their 2017 debut Radiogaze was brought to my attention by some genre year-end lists. As I recall, […]
Five or six years ago, my overarching mission in life was to acquire copies of Cocteau Twins’ final two albums – 1993’s Four-Calendar Cafe and 1995’s Milk & Kisses – on vinyl. I always like having some sort of record grail search on the go, even if the days of actually being able to spend […]
There’s a lot of good stuff in this just-published interview with Andy Bell in the ’90s issue of Guitar World – it covers his whole career from Ride through Hurricane #1 to Oasis, as well as new Happy Mondays spin-off Mantra of the Cosmos – including this bit on Graham Coxon of Blur encouraging him […]
Up and coming London dreampop duo Deary started the year out right, introducing themselves with a lovely Cocteaus-esque single in “Fairground” and they’re looking to close out 2023 on an equally high note, opening up for one of Slowdive’s London shows and scheduling the release of their debut self-titled EP for November 17. Accompanying the […]
The return of Slowdive is exciting for many, many reasons, but for guitar nerds like me, one of them is a chance to get a look at what wonderful noisemaking toys the band are using now. History has shown, however, that they’re not necessarily the gear hounds that their fans might think. Comparing their setups […]
Posting about San Jose’s ’90s dreampop blip Ozean back in July wasn’t meant to be anything than a “this existed forever ago and is worth a listen”, but it’s turned out to be just a little bit prescient. Archival label Numero Group, who’ve done a terrific job of unearthing and rereleasing everyone’s favourite out-of-print college […]
Slowdive’s everything is alive tour starts tomorrow night right here in Toronto, marking the first time most of the new songs will be translated on stage (“kisses” has been a fixture of their set lists all Summer). This, of course, means that some of the old favourites will be cycled out of rotation, so let’s […]
2016’s Lush reunion certainly started out with the best of intentions. Whereas most of their reunited peers were content to exult in the adoration (and dollars) of touring old material, Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson, and Phil King hit the studio first and were ready with the Blind Spot EP – four new tracks and a […]
