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Conventional wisdom holds that Slowdive’s second album Souvlaki is their masterpiece – certainly it’s my go-to of their catalog – but the critical re-evaluation Pygmalion – their once-but-no-longer swan song – has gotten over the past quarter-century is pretty remarkable. On its initial release in February of 1995, it seemed to be cursed. Drummer Simon […]
Now that My Bloody Valentine’s back catalog is for the most part officially back in print – the Domino-branded reissues of their last three albums came out last week (although my own order is still back-ordered till whenever) and their EPs 1988-1991 has finally made it to streaming services in its entirety, albeit retconned into […]
Kevin Shields doesn’t really seem a Twitter kind of guy, but with the Domino re-release of the remastered reissues My Bloody Valentine’s of Loveless and Isn’t Anything rolling out today, he found his AOL password and along with the rest of band all sharing the @mbvofficial account, got online this week to participate in an […]
While a few low-resolution rips of this Just For A Day video have been online for a while, one kind Slowdive fan with an original VHS tape sent by SBK to media outlets has ripped and posted it in the highest quality possible. Now whether the clip ever got played by anyone, anywhere, back in […]
I have Sonic Cathedral’s 1991: The Year Shoegaze Broke rolling blog for inspiring this post, because without their March 25 entry, I never would have known that my favourite Ride release actually had an accompanying VHS/Laserdisc release and that all four songs on it had an accompanying video. The EP itself is long out of […]
Like many of their ’90s-era brethren, Swervedriver are a band who know their way around a b-side. Indeed, some of their most fan-favourite cuts don’t even appear on their studio albums, and are hard to lay ears on. And so it was a pretty big deal, if a quietly-announced one, that at the end of […]
I launched this blog with some Swervedriver content – a shot of Adam Franklin’s pedalboard from their October 2019 show at The Horseshoe – but haven’t actually talked about the band since then, so let’s rectify that, starting with some guitar-centric material since you can’t like Swervedriver and not care about guitars. I actually don’t […]
While any live band performance television footage from yesteryear is kind of a gift, most of it is pretty low-res, VHS rip quality and while it may be period-correct but not necessarily a lot of fun to watch. So this recently-surfaced high-quality (well, 480p) clip of Ride tearing up British programme The Happening (not to […]
A little more Creation Records content to close out the week, from one of the label’s simultaneously bigger yet under-appreciated acts, The Boo Radleys. Their 1993 opus Giant Steps bridged 1991’s fuzz-drenched Everything’s Alright Forever and the chart-topping sunshine of 1995’s Wake Up!, and is often slotted as either shoegaze or Britpop. Both of which […]
It’s been an unofficial kind of My Bloody Valentine week, what with the band’s catalog returning to streaming services globally and coming back into print, albeit with some confusion around what versions are available in what form and where. Basically, you can’t buy the Domino versions of Isn’t Anything or Loveless – in other words, […]
