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Back catalog reissues from Ride have come over the past years in drips and drabs – Nowhere was re-pressed on wax in 2010 and 2015, Going Blank Again in 2012, and all as limited editions – but today marks the first widely-available, multi-title reissue campaign for the band. The band’s first four EPs – Ride, […]
There’s not a wealth of live Catherine Wheel material out there – barely any, really – so stumbling across this complete, almost two hours-long show from New York in the Summer of 2000 feels like a pretty sweet, unexpected gift. Okay, first the downside – it’s from the Wishville tour, the band’s swan song and […]
So about a decade ago there was a big sort of shoegaze/dreampop renaissance and a bunch of new bands showed up with Fender offset guitars and loads of chorus and delay pedals on hand and, for the most part, because I’m a contrary bastard, I had no time for any of it even though – […]
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 wasn’t a single. It was never played live. It didn’t even sound like anything the band had ever done. And yet by virtue of its stark, dark, beauty acting as a coda for the cosmic grandeur of Souvlaki, “Dagger” became one of Slowdive’s signature songs. A scan of the lyrics invite speculation that it’s […]
Mathematically, Spring 2019 wasn’t that long ago but watching live footage from then now seems like a window into another dimension. Here, for example, we’ve got Hatchie performing at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound in May of that year, still a couple weeks away from releasing her debut album Keepsake. Half the set previews that new record, […]
Swervedriver b-sides have long been things of beauty and held in high regard, and one particular fan-favourite is “Cars Converge On Paris”, originally released in 1993 as a b-side to Mezcal Head single, “Last Train To Satansville”. Never being ones to shy away from the deep cut, the band included the song in the encores […]
Every once in a while I think about would-be supergroup Minor Victories and wonder why I didn’t love their 2016 self-titled debut more than I did. I listened to it a lot on its release, and it certainly hit a lot of sweet spots for me, but didn’t end up having the shelf life I […]
The common narrative for the first era of Ride is their early EPs and 1990 debut Nowhere are the hallowed records and shoegaze blueprints, 1992’s Going Blank Again perfecting the balance of noise and pop, but 1996’s Tarantula and their attempts to pivot to Britpop was too late and too bad, putting the band on […]
One of the great things about a band with the longevity and prolificness as Cocteau Twins is that even 25 years after they disbanded, there is still more of their music to be discovered. The flip side of that is that finding this new music can be maddening. For example, the song “Crushed”, which appears […]
