Indie – Rocknerd

Dave Graney and Clare Moore, Gabriel Moreno — Betsey Trotwood, Thu 12 Oct 2017.

13 October, 201722 October, 2017 Indie, Live, Post-Punk 1

In the 2010s, post-punks will tour forever.

Reviews: Nosound, Porn, Stellarscope (2016, 2017).

28 September, 20173 October, 2017 Indie, Metal, Prog, Record 0

Prog, metal and shoegaze from the inbox.

King Snake Roost: Things That Play Themselves (1988). Vale Charlie Tolnay.

19 September, 201720 September, 2017 Indie, Record, Rock 3

Charlie Tolnay died a few days ago. Here’s a career rundown and a long bit from a 1990 Party Fears about my very favourite record of his. The correct hideous racket from freaks.

Links: Pat Mills/2000AD, fund The Quietus, shoegaze in Asia, MRI rockin’ beats.

14 September, 2017 Esoterica, Indie, Links, Writing 0

And me on BBC Newsnight! (Not about music.)

Reviews: Little Love and The Friendly Vibes, Alvvays (2017).

9 September, 2017 Indie, Pop, Punk, Record 1

A couple of indie pop guitar pieces.

Reviews: Magana, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Nina (2016, 2017).

3 September, 201722 September, 2017 Indie, Pop, Record 1

Some indie pop and synthpop, and yes the new OMD album’s a good one.

Reviews: Marsy, HYTS, Dreams Are Like Water (2017).

20 August, 201720 August, 2017 Dance, Goth, Indie, Pop, Record 0

Time to go out looking for interesting new things.

Seeming: Sol (2017).

4 August, 20175 August, 2017 Goth, Indie, Industrial, Record 0

A song-oriented post-industrial album from three years’ close obsession.

Video: Go-Betweens, techno in six steps, a pop hit in four minutes.

13 May, 201713 May, 2017 Indie, Musician, Television 0

Some telly to finish your day.

Alixandrea Corvyn, Amongst Animals, Near Death Experience, Tangerinecat — Dublin Castle, Camden, Thu 4 May 2017.

5 May, 201710 May, 2017 Esoterica, Goth, Indie, Live, Rock 1

I automatically staked out my life-long spot at stage right, leaning on the PA. I grabbed this spot in 1985 and shall not relinquish it.

Vortex zine #2 is up.

9 April, 2017 Indie, Writing 0

From the bowels of time, Vortex, Perth, December 1986.

Reviews: Cherry Heaven, Rainboy (2017).

7 April, 20177 April, 2017 Dance, Indie, Record 0

A couple of atmospheric pop collections.

1986-87 Perth fanzine Vortex scanned and up on the Party Fears page.

11 March, 201712 March, 2017 Indie, Writing 1

From the bowels of time, we bring you Vortex magazine, Perth 1986-1987.

Reviews: 5TimesZero, Post War Glamour Girls, Vassals (2017).

8 March, 201730 April, 2017 Indie, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Punk, Record, Rock 0

Record reviews at last! Synthpop, shouty post-punk and grungy ’90s guitar pop. Some good stuff coming out over the next month.

Reviews: Venus + Mars, Carla dal Forno, The Black Veils (2016, 2017).

9 February, 20179 February, 2017 Esoterica, Indie, Pop, Post-Punk, Punk, Record 0

Vaporwave, ethereal post-punk pop and jangly punk-pop.

Reviews: Quimper, Chrysta Bell and David Lynch, Black Tape for a Blue Girl (2016, 2017).

7 February, 201712 February, 2017 Esoterica, Goth, Indie, Pop, Record 0

Yes, that David Lynch. He does music too.

Reviews: Mehdi-T, Mlale (2017).

31 January, 2017 Dance, Indie, Record 1

The accessible and the inaccessible.

Synthpop reviews: Cloud Spell, Cavendish Laboratory, Seaofsin (2017).

25 January, 201725 January, 2017 Goth, Indie, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Minimal synth dreampop, extended instrumental noodling and EBM dancefloor.

Links: Slowdive return, GRIDI, Tetris on a Launchpad, BitTorrent Inc.

13 January, 201713 January, 2017 Indie, Links, mp3, Musician 0

But Lauren won’t budge; she likes what she likes, and Spotify understands that.

Links: Selling yourself as a streaming artist, vacuum tubes, indie conspiracy theories.

11 January, 201711 January, 2017 Indie, Industry, Live, Musician 0

BOTTOM VIEW: Basing diagram, JEDEC 9A.

Reviews: The Pineapple Thief, Trance To The Sun, Scandinavia (2016).

8 January, 201729 March, 2017 Goth, Indie, Pop, Prog, Punk, Record 0

Let’s get the guitars out again.

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. How to hip-sing!

25 December, 2016 Indie 0

“Yup, all $9.24 from monetization is going towards the wedding. There will be ice sculptures.”

The Celibate Rifles: Merry Xmas Blues (1983).

24 December, 201625 December, 2016 Indie, Record, Rock 0

Then give ’em all the turkey and tell ’em to get stuffed.

Reviews: Soviet Soviet, Fossey, Nórdika (2016).

11 December, 201611 December, 2016 Indie, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Shoegazy post-punk, synth pop and futurepop.

Reviews: Pass-Ages, Embrace The Crisis, Tombaugh Regio (2016).

7 December, 20167 December, 2016 Indie, Pop, Record 0

Synth-based indie pop, with some stomping jangle too.

Ganser: relentlessness by guitar.

5 December, 2016 Indie, Post-Punk, Record, Rock 0

Taut indie guitar rock, sparse but weighty; machine music by a guitar band with the proper relentlessness.

Flying Nun revival and reissues, Roger Shepherd autobio.

24 November, 201626 November, 2016 Indie, Record 0

Roger Shepherd, founder of Flying Nun Records, is now embarking upon a reissue programme. And has written an autobiography.

Reviews: Karlo, Moon Mask, Aseasita (2016).

21 November, 201622 November, 2016 Indie, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Today, some pop and some electroclash.

Synthpop: Mlale, Clintongore, Digital Logic (2016).

11 November, 201611 November, 2016 Indie, Pop, Record 0

Some super-accessible pop, some more experimentally-leaning synthpop and more Digital Logic vaporwave.

Blue Plutos: Moon Language (2016).

29 October, 201629 October, 2016 Indie, Record 0

The sort of guitar jangle pop that was our bread and butter in the late ’80s.