Post-Punk – Page 2

Last week after “Dynasty” I had crows feet under my eyes. Paid two days for getting high. Mark E. Smith is dead.

25 January, 201825 January, 2018 Opinion, Post-Punk 2

Sounds like MiG 20 crack, huh? Over! Over!

Reviews: Phase Fatale, Christian Fitness (2017).

15 January, 201815 January, 2018 Dance, Industrial, Post-Punk, Punk, Record 0

Industrial and 2017 punk.

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.

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!

Links: Origin of scenes, problems with muzak, pirate’s Raspberry Pi, John Cale, Unknown Pleasures.

12 December, 20179 September, 2018 Industry, Links, mp3, Post-Punk, Writing 4

Neoreaction a Basilisk is finally out!

Links: Black post-punk, plagiarism, contextualising music, John Lurie’s Marvin Pontiac.

2 December, 2017 Goth, Industry, Jazz, Links, Post-Punk, Writing 0

More fun in the big world.

Links: Sgt. Pepper, Raincoats, Severed Heads on DAWs, Tommy Keene RIP.

25 November, 2017 Industrial, Links, Musician, Pop, Post-Punk 0

These are places that are gone.

Links: Sex Pistols, Peter Hook, Martin Hannett, Lee Ranaldo, how music feels, Taylor Swift.

8 November, 20178 November, 2017 Esoterica, Links, Pop, Post-Punk, Punk, Writing, Your rights 0

The scourge of music bloggers shall be dealt with.

Links: Women’s pop canon, YouTube extortions, photographers win, Put Blood In The Music.

29 October, 201729 October, 2017 Links, Post-Punk, Punk, Writing, Your rights 0

t h e r e s a m a y p o r w a v e

Reviews: Boy Harsher, Vittorio Di Mango, David Carretta (2016, 2017).

26 October, 201728 October, 2017 Dance, Industrial, Post-Punk, Record 0

From the grey area between techno and industrial.

Links: TR-808 in Wikipedia, the Nick Cave graphic novel, punk podcast, Big Muff.

25 October, 2017 Links, Musician, Post-Punk, Punk 0

And Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards.

Peter Hook & The Light — The Corner, Melbourne, Sat 14 Oct 2017.

22 October, 201722 October, 2017 Live, Post-Punk 0

The last of a series of concerts, this one performing Unknown Pleasures and Closer.

Lindy Vision: Jute (2017).

21 October, 201721 October, 2017 Post-Punk, Record 0

More blatantly an electronified Interpol than the previous, better recorded and a delight that fully measured up to my anticipations.

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.

Links: Devo “Satisfaction”, failed electronic instruments, subgenres of electronic music.

26 September, 2017 Esoterica, Links, Musician, Post-Punk, Writing 0

It’s all about the bleep, even with guitar, bass and drums.

Links: Constance Demby, UK copyright trolls’ multiple extortions, The Return of the Giant Slits.

21 September, 201721 September, 2017 Esoterica, Links, Post-Punk, Your rights 0

Seriously, check out the space bass.

Punk rock links: Lester Bangs, Dennis and Lois, Montréal, Russia.

15 August, 201717 August, 2017 Links, Post-Punk, Punk, Theatre, Writing 0

This is your future if you live your life right.

Links: Bandcamp Friday deal, Post-Punk.com, Soundcloud as dot-com disaster.

1 August, 2017 Links, Media, mp3, Post-Punk, Record 0

Some news that’s actually timely and urgent!

Links: Closed Circuits compilation, Devo vs William S. Burroughs, Go-Betweens documentary.

22 June, 2017 Links, Post-Punk, Writing 0

More artistic pursuits today.

Links: Disney piracy hoax, New Order and Sunkist, wear yer earplugs, more Rocknerd in Hypebot.

25 May, 201725 May, 2017 Audio, Film, Links, Post-Punk, Rocknerd 0

♪ How does it feel
When a new day has begun
When you’re drinking in the sunshine
Rocknerd is the one ♫

Reviews: Hidden By Ivy, The Trapezoids, Miserable (2016, 2017).

28 March, 201729 March, 2017 Metal, Post-Punk, Prog, Record 0

Complicated acoustic progressive sounds, and a bit of cheap synth.

The Fall: Perverted By Language (1983).

18 March, 20179 May, 2018 Post-Punk, Record 0

“There was a time when I asked Mark if he’d heard that ‘Under Pressure’ song that Bowie did with Queen and he just said, ‘Yeah! They ripped that bass-line off “An Older Lover” on Slates. ‘” — Brix Smith

Synthpop reviews: The Past Made Us One, Endanger, Pomigato (2017).

10 March, 201710 March, 2017 Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Minimal synth, EBM and Korean indie synth.

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: Traitrs, Vanguard (2016, 2017).

21 February, 201722 February, 2017 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Angsty guitar post-punk and angsty EBM half way to Hi-NRG.

Reviews: Artefact, Ritual Howls, La Orden (2016, 2017).

15 February, 201715 February, 2017 Goth, Post-Punk, Punk, Record, Rock 0

Guitar post-punk in black and grey.

Quando Quango: Pigs and Battleships (1985).

14 February, 20171 May, 2017 Dance, Post-Punk, Record 0

A vastly underappreciated post-punk album of the female and funky variety, by a band substantially responsible for what became acid house as we know it.