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Category: Pop

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Records: Rhys Fulber, Poppy (2021).

2 November, 20214 November, 2021 Industrial, Pop, Record, Rock 0

Old industrial musician from way back makes a new album during lockdown; android pop star turns grunge rocker.

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21 Faces: Red Hearts (1985).

3 September, 20217 September, 2021 Indie, Pop, Record 1

Well, this is an obscurity I never expected to hear online.

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Records: Slow Down Molasses (2021), Shriekback (1989).

8 July, 202112 July, 2021 Dance, Indie, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Also: the Terminator comedy dick puppet remix technique.

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The Hummingbirds: loveBUZZ (1989).

1 May, 202112 July, 2021 Indie, Pop, Record 2

loveBUZZ is classic indie pop, and few are disappointed. But the story behind rooArt is a great saga.

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Links: Spreading the take at the top, custom ringtones, the Human League.

19 September, 202025 September, 2020 Industry, Pop 0

The black hit of space.

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Tears for Fears, Rule The World: Greatest Hits (2017)

9 September, 20199 September, 2019 Pop, Record 0

This eighteen-month late review of Tears for Fears latest compilation, released in November 2017, absolutely has to be done, for reasons of aesthetic duty if nothing else.

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The Cure, Disintegration 30 Years Anniversary, Sydney Opera House, May 2019

9 September, 20199 September, 2019 Live, Pop, Post-Punk 0

Disintegration’s popularity is absolutely deserving of a 30th anniversary and real credit is given to the band for having the courage and principle to have the entire show live-streamed and added to YouTube.

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Records: The Be Positives, Boy Harsher (2019).

3 July, 20193 July, 2019 Pop, Record, Rock 0

Some new pre-punk pop-rock, and a remixed favourite.

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Links from the past month: post-punk, pop and piracy

16 October, 201816 October, 2018 Industry, Links, mp3, Pop, Post-Punk 0

I’ve moved house! And oh my goodness, the backlog …

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Links: BitTorrent “web” client, the women of Rolling Stone, Deerful how-to, “Despacito” on kazoo.

17 September, 2018 Indie, mp3, Musician, Pop, Rocknerd, Writing 0

I can kazoo this on my own.

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Owen Kentauros brings you the 1980s on ukulele, in Japanese.

13 September, 201813 September, 2018 Esoterica, Pop 1

1980s New Wave on ukulele and occasional kazoo, on a grainy old webcam in 4:3. Bow to the viewer, play.

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Records: The Rolling Stones, Deerful, Benjamin Shaw (2016, 2018).

7 September, 20181 June, 2019 Esoterica, Indie, Pop, Record, Rock 0

A party that everyone’s been looking forward to for weeks. They seem to be having a wonderful time.

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The Twinkles: We Come Along (2018).

4 September, 20185 September, 2018 Pop, Punk, Record 0

A 10 song album that is everything you’ve been looking for if you’re sad that The Vandals haven’t had a full length release since 2004.

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Links: Spotify metadata, VU meters, songwriting camps, Disney defends fair use, the history of Smash Hits.

20 August, 2018 Audio, mp3, Musician, Pop, Writing, Your rights 0

Twenty deadly diseases.

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Links: Why the Rolling Stones suck, “fake artists,” ’80s remixes of current pop, ABBA, Philip Glass and S-Express, YouTube Music.

6 August, 20185 September, 2018 Dance, Links, mp3, Pop, Rock 2

The Rolling Stones piece certainly answers for me the question “why could I never get into this stuff?”

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Reviews: Marsy, Dot Dash (2018).

28 July, 201828 July, 2018 Pop, Punk, Record 0

Yeah, putting a Bandcamp embed into reviews is clearly the right thing.

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Richard Syrett on Theodor Adorno, the Beatles, conspiracy theorists and … me.

6 June, 20186 June, 2018 Esoterica, Opinion, Pop, Radio, Rock 0

Did you know that Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote all the Beatles songs? I sure didn’t! In fact, I still don’t.

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Mark Rye: Inside Looking Out: More Rock’n’Roll tales from inside the British music business (2017).

6 May, 20186 May, 2018 Pop, Rock, Writing 0

First-hand tales from the people down in the engine room.

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Links: Spotify windowing, Spotify and The Pirate Bay, industry shows piracy correlating with music industry success, Section 26.

14 April, 201815 April, 2018 Industry, mp3, Pop, Post-Punk, Your rights 0

The record industry is being blustering idiots about piracy again.

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Links: NME goes out of print, write about music anyway, Qwant music search, how to write a hit in 2018.

18 March, 2018 Links, Media, Pop, Writing 0

Choreography about architecture.

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The Frozen Autumn: The Fellow Traveler (2017).

14 March, 2018 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Are you into synthpop? Do you believe in heaven above, do you believe in love?

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Links: Andrew Hickey “Monkee Music,” Paul Morley and Propaganda, Kim Deal, YouTube finances, Bananarama and the legal system.

4 March, 20187 September, 2021 Dance, Indie, Links, Pop 1

There are many legal inaccuracies and errors that Bananarama fall into here. I think it’s important that we address them.

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King Trigger: The River (1982).

19 February, 201819 February, 2018 Pop, Record, Writing 4

Today’s one-hit wonder.

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Perfume: Cosmic Explorer (2016).

10 February, 201810 February, 2018 Pop, Record 0

Hear some pop trash you haven’t heard played to death!

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Links: Rasa Didzpetris Davies genius of The Kinks, Milli Vanilli, Arthur Baker, Children of Satoshi.

30 January, 201831 January, 2018 Dance, Links, Pop, R'n'B, Rock 0

Planet Rock. Nicht halt. Raza DIdzpetris is why the Kinks were that good.

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Reviews: Fires, Second Still (2017), Duran Duran (1979).

21 January, 201821 January, 2018 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Industrialised synthwave, goth and a pop demo from the mists of time.

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Links: Dick O’Dell/Y Records, DX-7 presets, Mony Mony, going algorithm-free, Hypebot.

7 January, 20188 January, 2018 Musician, Pop, Post-Punk, Writing 0

Into the hot.

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Video: Slits documentary, The Suspects (pre-Dream Syndicate), The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices.

31 December, 2017 Links, Pop, Post-Punk, Punk 0

Happy new year, probably!

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Reviews: The Glass Eyes, Elektrostaub, Stolen Apple (2016, 2017).

16 December, 201718 December, 2017 Industrial, Pop, Record, Rock 0

Two indie rock, one industrial bleep.

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Links: “Rasputin”, DIY Spotify payola, Thriller, Tommy Keene.

6 December, 2017 Dance, Indie, mp3, Pop, Rocknerd 0

Please forgive my neglect, I love you really.

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