Medical journal Lancet Psychiatry ran a Mark E. Smith obituary.
Read MoreMonth: February 2018
King Trigger: The River (1982).
Today’s one-hit wonder.
Read MoreLinks: The grunge gold rush, the Lester Bangs play, headphone jacks, Chandra, the first Velvets gig.
A pile of writing.
Read MorePerfume: Cosmic Explorer (2016).
Hear some pop trash you haven’t heard played to death!
Read MoreLinks: The Shakin’ Stevens game, Quincy Jones, death of the CD, Spotify songwriter credits, Snub TV.
Now I’m trying to imagine an ’80s Quincy Jones game.
Read MoreReviews: Dboy, Distant Stars, Cherry Heaven (2017, 2018).
Doing it yourself with trashy rock’n’roll, minimal synth and shoegazy indie.
Read MoreThe Chameleons, Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 2018-01-12
It was a good-sized crowd on the night with a surprising and pleasingly diverse audience, ranging from young post-punk revivalists who were born around the start of this century to those elder folk who had been there from the original days, now more than thirty-five years in the past.
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