Two indie rock, one industrial bleep.
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Two indie rock, one industrial bleep.
Read MoreLetters to the Editor, Financial Times, 2 October 2017.
Read MoreUnd Sisters gegen Nazis.
Read MoreCharlie Tolnay died a few days ago. Here’s a career rundown and a long bit from a 1990 Party Fears about my very favourite record of his. The correct hideous racket from freaks.
Read MoreAnd the Blockchain Robot!
Read MoreDRM bad, classic rock vastly better.
Read More“But thanks julian lennon for stopping me from becoming a supervillain hellbent on destroying the entire nation of britain for good.”
Read MoreToday is all about the listening, now that I can listen to things again.
Read MoreA pretty chill selection on the joy of art. And some schadenfreude for Kim Dotcom.
Read MoreI automatically staked out my life-long spot at stage right, leaning on the PA. I grabbed this spot in 1985 and shall not relinquish it.
Read MoreFolky songwriter guitar rock that’s excessively fond of Neil Young and knows it.
Read MoreNever interrupt the music industry when it is making a mistake.
Read MoreFurther on previous stories. Reach out and punch face.
Read MoreRecord reviews at last! Synthpop, shouty post-punk and grungy ’90s guitar pop. Some good stuff coming out over the next month.
Read MoreGuitar post-punk in black and grey.
Read MoreMusic 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.
Read MoreA cheering selection, from old and new bands.
Read MoreThen give ’em all the turkey and tell ’em to get stuffed.
Read MoreEssays on aesthetics.
Read MoreTaut indie guitar rock, sparse but weighty; machine music by a guitar band with the proper relentlessness.
Read More’90s style industrial, early ’70s style songwriting, two dance non-reviews.
Read MoreAudio snake oil, London still the centre of the universe, Summer in Paradise.
Read MoreA beautiful and apposite William S. Burroughs reading, and some classic rock faff.
Read MorePre-grunge-style indie rock, EBM synthpop and disorienting synthesizer-guitar landscapes.
Read MoreWho else remembers late ’80s Blast First band A. C. Temple?
Read MoreOne 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreBlack Native angular post-punk, psychedelic garage and some straight-up witch house.
Read MoreThe Beatles’ Live At The Hollywood Bowl recovered, Prince Buster obituary, Freddie Mercury aged 12, Nietzsche the composer.
Read MoreWhile I’m busy faffing with the new theme …
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