Post-Punk – Page 3

Musician links, George Michael on Joy Division.

30 December, 20161 January, 2017 Links, Musician, Post-Punk, Television 0

How to read sheet music, a chord progression arpeggiator and George Michael versus Morrissey and Tony Blackburn.

Songs for “oh God can I hit Amazon in time” week.

18 December, 201618 December, 2016 Post-Punk, Punk 0

BY THE CORROSIVE SPERM OF BAAL I SHALL RIP THY INTESTINES BODILY FROM THY CORPULENT BOURGEOISIE ABDOMEN WITH MY OWN CLAWS AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.

Your day’s video selection: goats, bats, Mel Brooks and Hitler.

13 December, 201613 December, 2016 Classical, Film, Links, Post-Punk 0

A Christmas choir, Mick Harvey, Ken Russell and apposite commentary.

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.

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.

Reviews: Tetrolugosi, Makoto Kino, A.D. Mana, Foretaste (2016).

4 December, 20164 December, 2016 Goth, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

sp00py theremin and keyboard, found sound loop atmospheric pop and some industrial bleep.

The Pop Group: Y (1979), For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (1980).

1 December, 20165 December, 2016 Post-Punk, Record 0

The Pop Group are a singularity of post-punk awesomeness. Here, have their first two albums.

Links: Jon Langford and the Sisters of Mercy, J. G. Ballard’s house, your headphones are listening.

28 November, 201629 November, 2016 Goth, Links, Post-Punk, Writing, Your rights 0

Jon Langford’s time as a part-time g*th, J. G. Ballard’s house is for sale again and your headphones can be used to spy on you.

A selection of early ’80s mopey post-punk aesthetic.

23 November, 20161 April, 2017 Post-Punk, Record 0

Selections from the early post-punk record collection. A Certain Ratio, C Cat Trance, Crispy Ambulance, Magazine, Section 25, Cabaret Voltaire. The aesthetic.

Gary Clail’s Tackhead Sound System: Tackhead Tape Time (1987).

18 November, 201614 May, 2018 Live, Post-Punk, R'n'B, Record 5

“Hard Left” remains chilling and apposite. The fascists and quasi-fascists haven’t changed in thirty years.

Links: The Pop Group, the Birthday Party, Plastic Bertrand, Düsseldorf.

4 November, 20165 November, 2016 Industrial, Post-Punk, Punk, Record, Writing 0

A new Pop Group album (and it’s good!), the last Birthday Party record, the truth about Plastic Bertrand and a book about Düsseldorf.

Hip-hop and post-punk synthpop: Ich habe der fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn blues.

30 October, 201625 February, 2019 Opinion, Pop, Post-Punk, R'n'B 0

I don’t often see it noted just what was happening with early hip-hop and English and European synthpop in and from the post-punk era. Hip-hop histories gloss over it, and the reconstructed histories of techno somehow jump straight from about 1988 back to Kraftwerk, as if all that stuff from 1978 to 1984 never happened.

J. G. Ballard and music. How to write the entire New Wave into being.

25 October, 201627 September, 2023 Industrial, Opinion, Post-Punk, Punk, Writing 0

Post-punk’s favourite writer, who didn’t listen to music himself. It’s all about the imagery.

Reviews: Crack Cloud, Night Trap, Ivy Fae (2016).

22 October, 201622 October, 2016 Goth, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Angular post-punk, synthpop and witch house with songs.

Reviews: Frustration, Logic + Olivia, Beborn Beton, Disjecta Membra (2016).

16 October, 201620 January, 2017 Goth, Industrial, Post-Punk, Punk, Record 0

Back to the goth, industrial and punky post-punk, latest works from bands who’ve been around a while.

A note on A. C. Temple.

15 October, 201616 October, 2016 Indie, Post-Punk, Rock 0

Who else remembers late ’80s Blast First band A. C. Temple?

Reviews: Black Arcade, Atlantic A.M., Bootblacks (2016).

11 October, 2016 Goth, Post-Punk, Punk, Record 1

Minimal synth darkwave with a fondness for Gary Numan, punky new-wave power pop and melodic post-punk with high bass.

How to discuss rock music, with German Fall fans.

10 October, 201623 October, 2017 Post-Punk, Writing 0

German Fall fans in a round-table discussion. Be sure to watch to the end.

Reviews: Magana, Night Club, Cybercide, Brandenburg (2006, 2016).

9 October, 201610 October, 2016 Dance, Indie, Industrial, Post-Punk, Record 0

Acoustic songwriter guitar rock, new wave disco, pounding futurepop EBM and Russian post-punk revival.

Lost post-punk classics: That time A Certain Ratio were hanging out with Grace Jones.

8 October, 20167 September, 2018 Dance, Post-Punk, R'n'B 3

Back in the day, A Certain Ratio were regarded by the outside world as post-punk no-hopers. So it was a surprise when Grace Jones, fresh off a hit with Warm Leatherette, took an interest in them …

New Order, BBC Basement Studios “Saturday Live”, 25 August 1984.

6 October, 2016 Post-Punk 0

New Order live in the studio for the BBC, simulcast on Radio One and BBC Two. Watch for Bernard missing his cue. And his terrible shorts, of course. And Hooky’s famed “gay sperm” bass cabinet.

Post-punk links: More secret histories.

26 September, 2016 Links, Post-Punk, Punk 0

Michel Duval and various Crépuscule bands, Mark Reeder, Dominatrix, the non-white and non-male nature of punk and post-punk, the Fall and what to do with ex-punk survivor’s guilt.

Rowland S. Howard and his albatross, “Shivers”. (And more.)

24 September, 201623 October, 2018 Opinion, Post-Punk 1

Rowland S. Howard plays his albatross “Shivers” on ABC TV Studio 22, 25 November 1999. The band is Rowland with Brian Hooper on bass, Mick Harvey on drums and Edward Clayton Jones on keyboard. And a lot more stuff.

Hey, ho! Let’s go! Punk rock links.

23 September, 201624 September, 2016 Indie, Links, Post-Punk, Punk, Writing 0

Pavarotti’s “Blitzkrieg Bop”, Kill Your Pet Puppy retrospective, a contemporary punk novel, Manchester punk history, Czechoslovak punk history, Scottish post-punk history and a children’s picture book on punk. The secret histories.

Reviews: Arsia Line, The Primary Colors, Lindy Vision (2016).

20 September, 201621 October, 2017 Goth, Indie, Post-Punk, Rock 0

Black Native angular post-punk, psychedelic garage and some straight-up witch house.

Post-punk: Belgrado, Radar Eyes, Rakta (2016).

11 September, 2016 Goth, Post-Punk, Record 0

Post-punk rock bands that aren’t quite g*th but are certainly leaning in that direction.

All guitars: No Sister, Dot Dash, Susan, Strange Passage (2016).

8 September, 2016 Indie, Pop, Post-Punk, Punk, Record 0

Post-hardcore indie rock, punk pop, power punk pop and jangle punk.

Pel Mel have a live album and a best-of coming out.

7 September, 201618 March, 2017 Indie, Post-Punk, Record 0

Pel Mel were an Australian post-punk indie-pop band who formed in Newcastle in 1979 and split in 1984. Like so many old post-punk bands, they’ve reformed in recent years, and have a collection and a live album out soon.