The last time I saw Placebo was the Kerrang Big Day Out at the Milton Keynes Bowl in 1999, when Metallica headlined. I crewed that one.
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The last time I saw Placebo was the Kerrang Big Day Out at the Milton Keynes Bowl in 1999, when Metallica headlined. I crewed that one.
Read MoreIt was never going to be easy to live up to that earthshattering series of singles, but I should not be thinking “yes, yes, get on with it.”
Read MoreFor all the talentless fucks who are absolute in their certainty that the way out is the way through.
Read MoreOne for those who understand that Arc is the best Neil Young live album.
Read MoreGörl pulled out a pile of old DAF tapes for inspiration, wrote new words, and released one final DAF album.
Read MoreCollecting old ex-members of the Fall into a band sounds like a good idea.
Read MoreIt is difficult to overstate just how much better everything would be for everyone except the parasites if software patents were abolished.
Read MoreAt least Songtradr, unlike Epic, is in the same business.
Read MoreLenbrook does have considerable experience straddling the fine line between “very good sound equipment” and “green marker pen on your speaker wires.”
Read MoreThese were not very bright guys, and things kept failing to get out of hand.
Read MoreIt was twenty-three years ago, but the pain remains fresh.
Read MoreThe vocals waft, but they waft on top of a beat and you can dance to it.
Read MoreThere were eight whole records to listen to. Eight!
Read More“If there’s one thing Spray are excellent at, it’s our drum fills. If there’s one thing we should be remembered for, I’d like it to be the drum fills.”
Read MoreTales from 1986, when I was nineteen and just embarking on making my youth suitably dissolute.
Read MoreOh no! Where will I pay well over the odds for a 13-bit FLAC now?
Read MoreI hadn’t expected listening to the hit parade to feed me an album review.
Read MoreIs it worth your time? Of course it bloody is.
Read MoreMore fun than deep, but it’s pretty good and I enjoyed it.
Read MoreIt made friends with me within the first three chords of “Blockbuster.”
Read MorePunk rock in early hardcore style through industrial electronics.
Read MoreA nicely varied EP from a veteran of the New Zealand goth scene.
Read MoreSigns is an extremely pleasant listen.
Read MoreEventually indie folk rockers make it clear which Beatle they modeled their approach on.
Read MoreGuess it’s been a while since I touched the dusty old boxes of CDs — I only just found out that CD database FreeDB shut down some time in early 2020.
Read MoreSomething to listen to while tending your greenhouse full of carnivorous and/or poisonous plants.
Read MoreA fun listen if you know who Marsh and Ware are, and it gives you a good idea of how they were thinking.
Read MoreYasutaka Nakata‘s much-anticipated synthwave masterpiece.
Read MoreNineteen years isn’t a bad run, for a baby band that blew up and then fell apart several times along the way.
Read MoreI like to put an R.E.M. mix on while I’m baking. But only the ones that include Man on the Moon.
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