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nuddy horror attack (noo wave edition) - Pin-up of the thickly thatched Jimmy Pursey, at a female reader's request, duly answered by the equal-opportunity musical newspaper*...1 day ago
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before deejays were cool (slight return) - why is this 1971 advertisement from the era before deejays were cool? it's not the fashion - the sideburns, the superwide tie. tha...1 day ago
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anti-theatricality and politics: the Showdown - That Trump is something like the apotheosis of the dysfunction of the American system does not mean that he is the end of the story. He may well be the b...1 day ago
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Still In A Dream is Rough Trade's #2 Book of the Year! - Full list here Congratulations to the #1, Melissa Auf der Maur and all the other authors given the nod, including several of my list-mates at White Rabbit...1 day ago
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"The future is here" (RIP Juan Atkins) - (1985) *Techno revolution* *And fast technology* *Enter a computer*...3 days ago
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RENEGADE ACADEMIA: Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (1999, unpublished feature) - So let me tell you how I came to write this piece: the only profile of *ccru* - *Cybernetic Culture **Research Unit *- written during the group's lifeti...3 weeks ago
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The Old Musical Express - *New Musical Express *on the 1983 reissue of *Charlie Gillett*'s 1971 book *The Sound of the City. * Reviewer *Paul Du Noyer* notes that "*in...5 weeks ago
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Sándor Reisenbüchler - Barbárok ideje / A Era dos Bárbaros, 1970 - Also known as *The Age of the Barbarians* "By any measure, *Sándor Reisenbüchler* is one of the most consequential film artists to emerge from post-...1 month ago
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faves of the 2010s - (Tracks not full lengths) Ke$ha – “We R Who We R” Ke$ha - “Backstabber” Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, "Round and Round" Rangers – “Golden Triangles”...6 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...4 years ago
I always love seeing these pieces. That sense of possibility: "There's this new band called The Clash. They could be big!"
ReplyDeleteThe Sounds writers did pretty well, on the old wave as well as the new. Sources suggesting Fleetwood Mac's new album could be a good one...
Interesting to see "new wave" being deployed already by January 1977: I had always thought of it as the marketing term used a year or two later to tidy up the Punk revolution.
And that is future novelist Tim Lott making the case for Cado Belle, isn't it? Not a terrible pick: although they never made it big, Maggie Reilly sounds great on those Mike Oldfield hits.
New Wave was a term used quite early I think. Malcolm McLaren preferred it to punk, possibly because he was a Francophile and a cineaste, so it reminded him of the Nouvelle Vague. Seymour Stein was another one pushing for 'New Wave'.
DeleteIs this the first example of the sanitised, orthodox and asinine take on The Clash, that American-dominated opinion which holds The Clash to be a superior rock band which achieved their full potential when they ditched all that punk claptrap (see also: the championing of Elvis Costello as punk's saving grace)? I find that the American heralding of the virtues of musical slickness and professionalism flosses my helmet red-raw.
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