Post-Punk – Rocknerd

Robert Görl and Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft: Nur Noch Einer (2021).

24 December, 202324 December, 2023 Industrial, Post-Punk, Record 0

Görl pulled out a pile of old DAF tapes for inspiration, wrote new words, and released one final DAF album.

House Of All: House Of All (2023).

23 December, 202323 December, 2023 Post-Punk, Record 0

Collecting old ex-members of the Fall into a band sounds like a good idea.

The complete Fall Peel Sessions playlist.

6 March, 20236 March, 2023 Post-Punk, Record 0

Is it worth your time? Of course it bloody is.

Robert Brokenmouth: Nick Cave: The Birthday Party and Other Epic Adventures (1996).

16 September, 202114 December, 2021 Post-Punk, Rock, Writing 0

In fairness, as the big bloke with the long hair and the leather jacket, if I were the police I’d have stopped me.

S:Bahn: Queen of Diamonds (2021).

10 August, 2021 Post-Punk, Record 0

It’s all a rhythm instrument, dry and direct.

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.

Maximum Joy: Spotify, new album “Peace” out shortly.

15 February, 202018 February, 2020 Post-Punk 0

Nice to just have a band occur to you and discover they’re alive and well and doing things.

Valedictions, Andy Gill

2 February, 20202 February, 2020 Post-Punk 1

Elder statesman, co-founder, and guitarist and vocalist of post-punk legends Gang of Four, Andy Gill, died on 1 February, aged 64.

Gang of Four, Croxton Bandroom, November 2019

10 November, 20198 December, 2020 Live, Post-Punk 0

After being a music reviewer for over 30 years, and being a Gang of Four fan for a similar period, it is about time I owned an electric guitar.

So I picked up Andy Gill’s from the Gang of Four concert last night.

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.

Records: Gang of Four, Lindy Vision (2019).

27 April, 201927 April, 2019 Post-Punk, Record 0

Andy Gill’s Gang of One turns out to be a good band making good records. And new Lindy Vision is always a delight.

Links: Mark E. Smith, keeping Nazis out of punk, have you heard about Napster?

26 April, 2019 Dance, Industry, Links, mp3, Post-Punk 0

Suspended in gaffer.

Boy Harsher: Careful (2019).

3 February, 20193 February, 2019 Goth, Industrial, Post-Punk, Record 0

Darkwave disco. I’ve been hanging out for this one, and I’m thoroughly delighted. You will be too.

Gary Numan: Savage (Songs from A Broken World) (2017).

7 January, 20198 January, 2019 Goth, Industrial, Post-Punk, Record 1

For those most familiar with the classic synth-pop Gary Numan, this will be quite different. For those who have followed Numan in the past thirty years this is not a surprise.

The The, October 5 2018, Melbourne

1 January, 20191 January, 2019 Live, Post-Punk 0

A long concert, though more amiable than epic.

Christmas links: 500 Songs bonus podcast, Lindy Vision.

25 December, 201825 December, 2018 Links, Post-Punk, Writing 0

Give yourself what you deserve today — both of these.

Links: Bauhaus, WFMU Free Music Archive saved, post-punk indie labels, Pete Shelley’s XL-1 videos, Boy Harsher.

21 December, 2018 Esoterica, Goth, Industrial, Links, Post-Punk, Punk 0

What’s important to understand about entertainment from the 60s or 70s or 80s is that the entire audience is lead-poisoned, poisoning their kids with lead, pumping drugs cut with industrial solvents bought outside their kids’ schools, which are also poisoning the kids with lead.

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 …

Links: EBM is trendy, managing the Rolling Stones, Swiss modernist post punk, egregious YouTube content filtering.

3 September, 20185 September, 2018 Dance, Industrial, Post-Punk, Rock, Your rights 0

Post-punk albums in the style of 1960s Penguin nonfiction paperbacks.

Links: World In Motion, pirates, kids listen to Swans, Irmin Schmidt.

17 June, 2018 Dance, Links, Post-Punk, Prog, Your rights 0

“If there’s one group who can capture the spirit of bitter infighting that typifies being in a World Cup squad …”

rosewater: Love Bomb, rosewater AKA (2018).

15 June, 201815 June, 2018 Post-Punk, Punk, Record 0

Both little works have great songs on them but Love Bomb is mind-blowingly perfect. Clark and Brooke’s voices and guitars blend into a sweet, grungy, fun sound.

Gary Miller: Anarcho-Punk Albums: The Band’s Story behind Anarchist Punk Music (2018).

29 April, 20186 May, 2018 Post-Punk, Punk, Writing 0

A document of anarchopunk of the late 1970s and early 1980. It’s short, but it’s cheap and a great read.

The Cascades: Diamonds and Rust (2017).

23 April, 201824 April, 2018 Goth, Post-Punk, Record 0

While the rest of the world moves, changes, shifts, reshapes itself, and discovers irony you can always return to the comforting refuge of goth rock.

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.

Reviews: Cloud, LisaWars (2017, 2018).

11 March, 201811 March, 2018 Indie, Post-Punk, Record 0

Cinematic indie pop and some NDW revival.

Links: Peter Saville, pirates buy streaming, Bandcamp users buy music, vinyl demand, Mark E. Smith, Kam Franklin.

25 February, 2018 Links, mp3, Post-Punk, Record 0

Medical journal Lancet Psychiatry ran a Mark E. Smith obituary.

Links: The grunge gold rush, the Lester Bangs play, headphone jacks, Chandra, the first Velvets gig.

17 February, 2018 Audio, Links, Post-Punk, Rock, Writing 0

A pile of writing.

The Chameleons, Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 2018-01-12

1 February, 20181 February, 2018 Live, Post-Punk 0

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.