It was pure serendipity that I found myself on the other side of the planet from my usual home at the same time that 65daysofstatic graced Barcelona to promote their new soundtrack album, No Man’s Sky. The venue, Razzmatazz, has a good reputation and deservedly so. It’s rough and ready, but sensibly designed allowing for generous audio and viewing spaces, good ventilation, and even reasonable drink prices.
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What do you do with ten black bath bombs? Plus a goth dance howto. And proof that cyberpunk is real.
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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.
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The sort of guitar jangle pop that was our bread and butter in the late ’80s.
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It was 35 years ago today, Sergeant Adorno taught the band that HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC.
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Music goes with chicken, retrospective on a scrappy punk band and how to be so foolish as to go out with a musician.
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So I use the Bandcamp new arrivals as a radio, so what, so should you. Jangly guitar indie, goth-industrial dance and some straight-up vaporwave.
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Post-punk’s favourite writer, who didn’t listen to music himself. It’s all about the imagery.
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Pre-grunge-style indie rock, EBM synthpop and disorienting synthesizer-guitar landscapes.
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Scurvy recording trickery, scurvier buzzword-compliant scams and Dépèche Mode so too has the accents in.
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Angular post-punk, synthpop and witch house with songs.
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The ultimate in merchandising, reviving an old gadget, Dylan as writer, me as writer.
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A retrospective on Rocknerd’s 2013 one-hit wonder “Culture is not about aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law.” What musicians are now faced with.
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Andrew Hickey reminisces on “Jaded” by The National Pep, from the EP Love Punks Want To Make You Cry.
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Thanks to Paul Haesler for tipping me off to this inspiring work after he saw the Polka Floyd video yesterday.
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Don’t whinge or povertysplain, worse music industry players, Psychic TV’s film Kickstarter and a reworking that works too well.
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Back to the goth, industrial and punky post-punk, latest works from bands who’ve been around a while.
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Who else remembers late ’80s Blast First band A. C. Temple?
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The vocal on “Moon Maps” is so gorgeous, and the chiptune actually makes this even clearer than on the excellent original. The first chiptune record I’ve ever had a minute for, let alone three.
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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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It’s been another busy day with Blockchains in. Have some links.
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Minimal synth darkwave with a fondness for Gary Numan, punky new-wave power pop and melodic post-punk with high bass.
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German Fall fans in a round-table discussion. Be sure to watch to the end.
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Acoustic songwriter guitar rock, new wave disco, pounding futurepop EBM and Russian post-punk revival.
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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 …
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Soundscapes with songs, indie pop with synth and guitar, and industrial gone synthpop. Three excellent finds today.
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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.
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Today at work I’ve been busy discussing the horror of Blockchain. So have some interesting webpages that are completely not about that in any manner.
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Spray’s first album Living In Neon from 2002, with a disc of new tracks, additional remixes, alternate versions and compilation appearances. What Abba would have done had they been just that bit crankier.
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Shazam makes a profit but not from records, the record industry goes back to trying to sue the Internet out of existence, the record industry thinks a YouTube employee is really working for them for free, Spotify and Soundcloud will prove that 2+2=1.
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