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Sonic Cathedral, keepers and champions of all things ‘gazey, are doing something really cool to mark the 30th anniversary of the year that was a seminal one for the shoegazing scene. I could list some of those moments off, but that is the entire purpose of their mini-rolling blog which is highlighting and reminiscing about […]
Books can be written about the mythology around the creation of My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless – and at least one has – but while it’s easy to think of a record as singular and otherworldly as emerging from some extra-dimensional wormhole, it was in fact recorded with conventional audio technology in the late ’80s/early ’90s […]
The first single from Cocteau Twins’ masterpiece Heaven Or Las Vegas, released August 27, 1990. Posted for no other reason than it is majestic, or as an excuse to share the fact that their website is very up to date and very thorough with archival material.
I need to get back to my original intent of dropping quick bits of whatever without lots of commentary, so here’s the video for Lush’s second single, released October 15, 1990, and included in their not-their-first-album-but-generally-regarded-as-their-first-album Gala. I’d actually never seen this vid nor the original single art before putting this post together, so we’ll […]
Not that I’m the sort of person to rank such things but while it’s always been up there, Slowdive’s 1993 masterpiece Souvlaki can make a pretty strong claim to being my favourite record of all-time. And if anyone were to ask “why”, I’d just point them to the opening track even though being the poppiest […]
Something to get you through the day. A month or so before Slowdive released their 2017 self-titled album, they played a gig at a tiny 600-capacity venue in London to preview the new material. Thankfully the gig was livestreamed and archived and is available to watch and enjoy and be reminded of:a) how great live […]
Here’s a dumb thing that has plagued me just a little for the last few years. In consolidating all my concert ticket stubs, media passes, and setlists from where they’d been residing in album covers, jewel cases, and file folders, I found a set list that appeared to be from My Bloody Valentine’s show at […]
Emma Anderson of Lush and Sing Sing pens an essay for Sonic Cathedral on discovering The Return Of The Durutti Column, the majestic debut album from Vini Reilly and company.
Started by Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, #TimsTwitterListeningParty has been a balm for these times, inviting artists and fans to participate in a real-time commentary via Twitter as they listen to a given record start to finish. And thankfully, they’re all archived. Here’s Andy Bell and Loz Colbert of […]
I was very excited when Pitchfork released this video some five years ago, but assumed it was a short “explainer”-type video and didn’t bother watching it after bookmarking. Turns out it’s almost an hour-long, slickly-produced proper documentary of maybe my favourite all-time album*. So that was an unexpected treat. * for right now, anyways
