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A History of Hardcore (the Other Hardcore) - This looks like a good read - a history of gabber and all its 21st Century extensions and mutations by Resident Advisor's *Holly Dicker*. https://vel...9 hours ago
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rock stars in the nuddy and the near-nuddy (slight unsightly return's not so slight unsightly return) - What was it with *Sounds*'s fixation on showing rock stars in the nuddy? A hairy man, Halford - except on his head. Ooh another ...10 hours ago
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Dexys as glam (slight return) (secret thesis: slight return's slight return's slight return) - Came across this snippet from *Kevin Rowland*'s The Q & A in *The Guradian* a few weeks back (Kev promoting his memoir *Bless Me Father*): *I...3 days ago
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Oneohtrix Point Never - *Oneohtrix Point Never* *Village Voice, July 6, 2010* *by Simon Reynolds* Daniel Lopatin, the young man behind the spacey and spacious mindscapes of O...1 week ago
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questionnaire pour Libération (2020) - *What is the first record you bought in your youth with your own money ?* Ian Dury and the Blockheads, *Do It Yourself*, 1979 *Your favorite way for li...1 week ago
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Anti-Retro (Foucault else to do) - Historians of retro concur that the first time "retro" was used in its current way was in France in the early '70s, with the phrase *mode rétro* - the re...1 week ago
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Art and the Future: A History/Prophecy of the Collaboration Between Science, Technology and Art - I do like this kind of book that attempts to sum up a moment in cultural time, especially when the author is also rash enough to predict ...2 weeks ago
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ran through the jungle (of modern music) - Fun piece by Kieran Press-Reynolds looking at oblique strategies for digging up weird music, with a hierarchy of engagements mode from basic to ultra-obsc...3 weeks 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
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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