A 22 year-old Kurt Cobain, finishing up his first album and already thinking about his second, is taking notes...
I can't find any references suggesting Cobain liked or had even heard Hugo Largo. But given his enthusiasm for adjacent bands including REM and the Raincoats, it would make sense
Dantronix
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"dantronix in the house" - inspired aliasing!
Listening to this when it came out really rammed home the hardcore / Brit
B-boy connection for me.
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“*Writing aloud* is not expressive; it leaves expression to the pheno-text,
to the regular code of communication; it belongs to the geno-text, to
signifi...
do the hokey cokey (hell / heaven)
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Of the three, Arthur Brown is perhaps the least hokey
It must have been genuinely alarming for parents and middle-of-the-roaders
to see this witc...
rehaunted graffiti (the hypnagogic revival)
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Even before I heard a note of the *Cindy Lee* album, the aroma I'd picked
up was that it was like a flashback to the late 2000s - the peak of hipster
vi...
Silverfish
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An interesting piece at the *Quietus* by *Keith Kahn-Harris* about
*Silverfish* as a great lost band from a great lost mini-era.
I remember them fondly a...
Futuromania - out today!
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The UK edition of Futuromania is out today on White Rabbit ! Via select
record stores, comes with a limited edition freezine of bonus pieces! Check
out thi...
four favorite riffs
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Not actually my four absolute favorite riffs (Lord alone knows where I'd
start with that) but four *of* my favorite riffs, commented on for The
Wire's *G...
angel delights
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https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs
*Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica!
Another vintage release, with a vi...
A 22 year-old Kurt Cobain, finishing up his first album and already thinking about his second, is taking notes...
ReplyDeleteI can't find any references suggesting Cobain liked or had even heard Hugo Largo. But given his enthusiasm for adjacent bands including REM and the Raincoats, it would make sense
A real shame that the Hugo Largo albums are out of print and not on streaming services. They deserve to be remembered.
ReplyDeleteThere is a pretty good 1987 show on YouTube, recorded in Hoboken NJ. The cover of Wanted Dead or Alive is fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L79hrhVeGK0
I agree - one of the great lost bands of that era.
Deleteremember the Bon Jovi cover from their live shows - always a treat