Musicians who have a casual attitude to the continued use of their eyes may want to look over this advertising image and see if they can spot a single thing right about it.
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Valedictions, Klaus Schulze
We should reasonably expect that sizeable books will be released in the near future which in themselves will only provide a summary.
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Records: P.H.O.B.O.S. (2021), The Birthday Massacre (2022).
Is this thing on? Have a couple of records.
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Five slabs of listening from 2021.
Two are actually from this year!
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Records: Rhys Fulber, Poppy (2021).
Old industrial musician from way back makes a new album during lockdown; android pop star turns grunge rocker.
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Arkady Rose: Nocturne (2021).
It’s blatant advertising time now, with the new CD from Arkady Rose of this parish just released today!
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B-Side #14, early 1986: Wet Taxis, Porcelain Bus, Feedtime, Ups & Downs, Mick Harvey/Bad Seeds, John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong.
This is the last of the B-Side for the moment. I have a few scraps of other stuff to put up …
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B-Side #13, December 1985: Deniz Tek, Ku Klux Frankenstein, Ed Kuepper/Laughing Clowns, Huxton Creepers, X, Happy Hate Me Nots, Beach Nuts, Louis Tillett, Itchy Rat
And a four-page cartoon in the middle.
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Ministry: Moral Hygiene (2021).
Frankly, I’m most surprised Al Jourgensen is still alive. Good luck to him.
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Twitter roundup.
I’ve had these long enough, now you can have them too and I can close some tabs.
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Robert Brokenmouth: Nick Cave: The Birthday Party and Other Epic Adventures (1996).
In fairness, as the big bloke with the long hair and the leather jacket, if I were the police I’d have stopped me.
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B-Side #12, late 1985: Scientists, The Eastern Dark, The Stems, Deniz Tek, Behind The Magnolia Curtain, Mark Ferrie, Reactor Records.
More procrastination on other things!
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B-Side #11, June 1985: Tex Perkins, The Shindiggers, Decline of the Reptiles, Eugene Chadbourne, 21 Faces, The Celibate Rifles, Harem Scarem.
I basically commend all of this coverage.
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21 Faces: Red Hearts (1985).
Well, this is an obscurity I never expected to hear online.
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B-Side #10, April 1985: James Baker Experience, Triffids, Lipstick Killers, Saints, Tactics, New York garage psych roundup.
Remember when you could get this sort of goodness for a dollar?
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B-Side 4½, June–July 1984: Celibate Rifles, True West, J.F.K. and the Cuban Crisis, Clinton Walker on The Next Thing
B-Side was the Australian indie rock fanzine of the time. Just slabs of text about good bands and records. I straight-up lifted its format for Party Fears.
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S:Bahn: Queen of Diamonds (2021).
It’s all a rhythm instrument, dry and direct.
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Vortex #6, Dec 1987–Jan 1988: Kryptonics, Kim Salmon, Stems, Stolen Picassos, Errol H. Tout, Bacen Asagai, Cremator, Scarlets, Die Monster Die, And An A, 10,000 Maniacs, White Cross, The Cult
And that about wraps it up for Vortex!
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Vortex #5, August 1987: Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio, Go-Betweens, Stolen Picassos, Gay Marvins, Martha’s Vineyard, Weddings Parties Anything, Chad’s Tree, Concrete Blonde
I’m on a roll here, or I’m procrastinating like hell on other things.
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Vortex #4, May–June 1987: Palisades, Scientists, The Cult, Sparklers, Reels, New Order, Matt Johnson/The The, Errol H. Tout, The Clash.
I said previously I’d have the rest of Vortex up by the end of 2020, no worries. This proved incorrect.
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Snog: Lullabies for the Lithium Age (2020).
Snog have embodied the virtue of consistency for the past thirty years.
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Various Artists: From the River to the Sea (2021).
Jamie Halliday had stopped doing Audio Antihero, but has revived the label for this compilation.
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Records: Slow Down Molasses (2021), Shriekback (1989).
Also: the Terminator comedy dick puppet remix technique.
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Severed Heads: get the late-period albums while you can.
Art is ephemeral. The text changes out from under you. Particularly when the text is a Severed Heads album.
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Daniel Sloss, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, May 4th, 2021
Daniel Sloss is certainly deserving of the credits that are lauded in his direction.
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The Hummingbirds: loveBUZZ (1989).
loveBUZZ is classic indie pop, and few are disappointed. But the story behind rooArt is a great saga.
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Solar Fake: Enjoy Dystopia; Masked (2021).
A pretty good slab of extruded Solar Fake product.
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Records: Throat (2018, 2020); Microlaxx (2021).
Less Nirvana and more Fugazi, and no fashionability whatsoever. “The kind of rock that was 20 years past its expiration date.”
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Records: Statiqbloom, AC/DC (2020).
A good new thing and an old new thing.
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Links: Spreading the take at the top, custom ringtones, the Human League.
The black hit of space.
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