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I can’t say I was too invested in the artistic success of Creation Stories, the film adaptation of Creation Records honcho Alan McGee’s 2013 memoir Creation Stories: Riots, Raves, and Running a Label, but was at least hoping it would be a decent ’90s companion piece of sorts to 24 Hour Party People, Michael Winterbottom’s […]
The URL for GuitarGeek.com may no longer exist was a meaningful internet entity – it now goes to the YouTube page for some guy who will teach you Led Zeppelin riffs – but in the early days of the web, it was a magical place for guit nerds like myself who were a) unhealthily obsessed […]
As we’ve passed the first anniversary of our ongoing global pandemic, let’s reflect on some of the good things that have come of it – like Tim Burgess’ Tim’s Twitter Listening Parties, which marked its one-year birthday yesterday, accompanied by the news that the online phenomenon will be spawning a book by Burgess come September, […]
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 […]
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
