Possibly one of the most iconic progressive house bands of the 1990s, Underworld’s appearance at Sydney’s Vivid light and sound festival was exceptionally appropriate.
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Vale Damien Lovelock, 1954-2019 — the last Celibate Rifles show, 19 May 2018.
The Celibate Rifles’ official Facebook posted a link to what turned out to be their last gig — Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 19 May 2018. Here’s the complete video.
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Martin Rev on “Suicide” by Suicide.
Dangerous Minds interviews Martin Rev, going through the recording process for the first Suicide album.
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Record non-reviews: Cloud, Even As We Speak, Frog (2017, 2019).
Trying to write sensible things to describe music is way too much like work. Here are things from the pile that I’ve been enjoying. Press the play buttons and make up some adjectives yourself.
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Records: Nero Bellum, Am I Dead Yet?, O.R.k. (2019).
Mary Byker being precisely the right amount of too clever for his own good is a pleasing surprise when clearing down the review pile.
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Records: Cortez (2018), Statiqbloom, various goths (2019).
The review pile is full of alternative buttrock industrial.
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Records: The Be Positives, Boy Harsher (2019).
Some new pre-punk pop-rock, and a remixed favourite.
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Get the 500 Songs bonus podcasts, they’re great.
“Fuck, suck and fight/ Till the beginning of broad daylight …”
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019).
It’s a fun film if you don’t bother trying to make sense of it. And it has lots of explosions.
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Severed Heads: If I’ve Told You Once I’ve Told You A 1,000 Times (1987).
From the cellulose nitrate days of music video.
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Records: Gang of Four, Lindy Vision (2019).
Andy Gill’s Gang of One turns out to be a good band making good records. And new Lindy Vision is always a delight.
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Links: Mark E. Smith, keeping Nazis out of punk, have you heard about Napster?
Suspended in gaffer.
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Cryptorave: Arpanet, M.E.S.H., Amnesia Scanner — Romantso, Athens, Saturday 16 February 2019
Excessive quantities of pseudish babble wrapped around a surprisingly good live techno gig.
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Boy Harsher: Careful (2019).
Darkwave disco. I’ve been hanging out for this one, and I’m thoroughly delighted. You will be too.
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Gary Numan: Savage (Songs from A Broken World) (2017).
For those most familiar with the classic synth-pop Gary Numan, this will be quite different. For those who have followed Numan in the past thirty years this is not a surprise.
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Mono: Nowhere Now Here (2019).
Tell you what I love about Steve Albini recordings: the drums.
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The The, October 5 2018, Melbourne
A long concert, though more amiable than epic.
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Christmas links: 500 Songs bonus podcast, Lindy Vision.
Give yourself what you deserve today — both of these.
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Links: Bauhaus, WFMU Free Music Archive saved, post-punk indie labels, Pete Shelley’s XL-1 videos, Boy Harsher.
What’s important to understand about entertainment from the 60s or 70s or 80s is that the entire audience is lead-poisoned, poisoning their kids with lead, pumping drugs cut with industrial solvents bought outside their kids’ schools, which are also poisoning the kids with lead.
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Records: Nora Roy, Laibach (2018).
An indie singer-songwriter and the return of an old favourite with a slab of excellence.
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Records: Frog, Keen On Keys, Metal Disco (2018).
Metal Disco is today’s pleasant surprise winner.
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Links: Threatin’s faked tour, WFMU archive closing, Winamp 5.8, streaming as the last format.
The Threatin story is this week’s winner.
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Andrew Hickey: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs. Subscribe to this podcast now.
I want you to go right now to 500songs.com and download every episode. And if you follow podcasts, you need to subscribe to this one. Every record nerd needs this.
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Records: Dew, Irk, Transmaniacon featuring Lydia Lunch and Maya Berlin (2018).
Dew and Irk are both remarkable finds and produce the correct horrible racket, though the loved one compared Irk to a sack of hammers falling down stairs.
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Records: Nosound, Trash Deity, a Cabaret Voltaire tribute (2018).
Popular US industrial music has always tended less Throbbing Gristle and more alternative buttrock.
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Links from the past month: post-punk, pop and piracy
I’ve moved house! And oh my goodness, the backlog …
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Blue Man Group, 20 July 2018, Berlin.
The BMG themselves in this particular incarnation are Martin Marion, Kuba Piezchalksia, and Stefan Ruh, supported by the band of Jan Burkamp, Tim Neuhaus, and Nils Westermann.
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Links: BitTorrent “web” client, the women of Rolling Stone, Deerful how-to, “Despacito” on kazoo.
I can kazoo this on my own.
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Owen Kentauros brings you the 1980s on ukulele, in Japanese.
1980s New Wave on ukulele and occasional kazoo, on a grainy old webcam in 4:3. Bow to the viewer, play.
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I ran the Perth indie record charts, from 1989 to 1991. Corruption! Manipulation! Propaganda!
An excuse to get Perth bands into a published record chart, so they’d get some publicity and could use it in their marketing. And to propagandise Australian indie to the masses. Includes THE HITS OF 1989!
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