Music For A New Society was written and recorded over a few weeks in 1982. Cale basically pulled out handfuls of his guts and shoved them into the piano and the vocal mic as hard as he could. It’s a perfectly captured moment, and one of the best things Cale ever did.
The 2016 rerecording is … completely different.
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A cheering selection, from old and new bands.
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Then give ’em all the turkey and tell ’em to get stuffed.
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Essays on aesthetics.
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Taut indie guitar rock, sparse but weighty; machine music by a guitar band with the proper relentlessness.
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’90s style industrial, early ’70s style songwriting, two dance non-reviews.
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Audio snake oil, London still the centre of the universe, Summer in Paradise.
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A beautiful and apposite William S. Burroughs reading, and some classic rock faff.
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Pre-grunge-style indie rock, EBM synthpop and disorienting synthesizer-guitar landscapes.
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Who else remembers late ’80s Blast First band A. C. Temple?
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One of the finest conspiracy theories in popular culture is the claim that Theodor Adorno, a main figure in the Frankfurt School of “cultural Marxism” fame, secretly wrote all the Beatles’ songs.
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The trouble with the Beatles is not that they aren’t mindbogglingly important (they are) or indeed actually good (they are), it’s that you can’t get away from them even in 2016. They are actually so famous and so important that it’s almost impossible in the present day to understand how and why.
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Black Native angular post-punk, psychedelic garage and some straight-up witch house.
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The Beatles’ Live At The Hollywood Bowl recovered, Prince Buster obituary, Freddie Mercury aged 12, Nietzsche the composer.
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While I’m busy faffing with the new theme …
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“doom heavy stoner metal band”, the press release bluntly announces.
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Just rereading the Dave Graney interview I did in late 1992 for Party Fears. This was when no fucker cared about Dave Graney, after his indie hipness fronting the Moodists in the 1980s and his artier cowboy rock’n’roll in the late ’80s and early ’90s.
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It was mid-1986, at the Red Parrot in Perth (name and logo blatantly nicked from the New York club of the same name) in Perth. I was nineteen and had been going out to see bands and drinking in earnest for six months. The Cramps had played (the Canterbury Court Friday 22 August 1986 show, I think) and went there for after-show drinks.
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“Formed by two frustrated drummers” tells you about sixty percent of what you need to know. The rest is descended (through similarly-influenced ’80s indie rock, then the stuff that was left after grunge imploded) from the heavier ’60s psychedelic rock, rather than prog.
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“Last Words” (2014), is the debut EP for young Fremantle independent rock band, Muzzle, with three-piece Daniel Panizza on bass, Daniel Prince on drums,
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Courtesy of our friends at The Dwarf your author had the opportunity to see the legendary Radio Birdman as long as finger was put
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How we’ve paid for music from 1983 to today, in one gif. Revealed: The Type of Music That Makes You Feel Most Powerful Spoiler:
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Pete Farnan of Boom Crash Opera writes about playing A Day On The Green, to the most irony-free audience possible. “The Hunters and Collectors
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I’ve been digging up the lost unpublished fragments of Party Fears. Here’s an interview with Dave Graney in late 1992, when nobody cared and
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The ABC in its infinite wisdom has started broadcasting its first run of the BBC’s Seven Ages Of Rock in the Silly Season, with
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Royal Mail has issued a stamp set that commemorates ten classic rock album covers ranging from The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed to Coldplay’s
Read MoreWe’ve all poked fun at him over the years, but one of Rock’n’Roll’s veterans with a big heart, Ronnie James Dio is battling the
Read More“What kind of music do you like?” Fuck. Who can answer a question like that? I HAVE FUCKING THOUSANDS OF ALBUMS, MOTHERFUCKER. IF YOU
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From The Guardian: 1970s rock stars with their parents. “Life photographer John Olson’s extraordinary pictures of the biggest rock stars of the 1970s at
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