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RIP J. Saul Kane - Well, it had to be this one I posted, didn't it? That macabre sing-song sample - "*did you ever think / when the hearse goes by / that some day you a...1 day ago
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New Wavest (#3 of ??) - *Clock DVA *- a name one associates with industrial music. Well, they were actually on *Industrial Records*, weren't they? Put out a cassette via them...4 days ago
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RIP Shel Talmy - One of the odd things about the social media era is becoming "friends" with musical legends and cult figures that you've never met. Musicians you've inte...5 days ago
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Futuromania in Rough Trade's Books of the Year! - "A collection of compelling essays analysing the technological evolutions which have defined pop and electronic music and how this history intersects. Fr...1 week ago
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Dream on - Last week, I found it very hard to get down to the work I was supposed to be doing. Writing about music felt trivial, absurd. That feeling has passed - fo...1 week ago
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anti-theatricality + politics (the finale?) - *A wise person once said: “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” Donald Trump is a clown. Let’s preve...2 weeks ago
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RIP Lillian F. Schwartz (1927 - 2024) - *"Resident artist and consultant at Bell Laboratories (New Jersey).... during the 70s and 80s Schwartz developed a catalogue of visionar...5 weeks ago
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haunty ha-ha, haunty peculiar - Sometime ago, *Vic Reeves* posted this on Twitter - if I remember right, it's artwork for a tour poster that was nev...1 month ago
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50 Favorite Songs - (for an Italian publication, 2009) The Eyes -- "When the Night Falls" The Beatles -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" John's Children -- "A Midsummer ...2 months ago
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angel delights - 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...2 years ago
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Lovely piece, and spot-on about Slint’s lasting reputation and influence. It’s let down only by the rote in-group signaling about “dance music” and rap. The contradictory facets of Albini’s public persona are perplexing: he is capable of both tremendous intelligence and sensitivity, and the crassest adolescent posturing. Chuck Eddy has a great paragraph on ‘Songs About F***ing’, where he says that on ‘Tiny, King of the Jews’ Albini seems to break through into real insight about the bleak corner he has painted himself into. And then he breaks up Big Black and starts a new band called Rapeman.
ReplyDeleteHe is now one of the best follows on Twitter: consistently thoughtful and genuinely witty. Who would have thought it?
yes he has matured nicely.
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