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Sunday, March 13, 2011
consider it a kind of preface or foreword for the anthology of great rockwrite this blog sort of is and isn't--a piece about changes in pop criticism during the 25 years since I started doing it
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"A nutty Puritanism still flourishes in the arts, not just in the
schoolteachers’ approach of wanting art to be “worthwhile,” but in the
higher reaches ...
nuddy horror attack (noo wave edition)
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Pin-up of the thickly thatched Jimmy Pursey, at a female reader's request,
duly answered by the equal-opportunity musical newspaper*...
before deejays were cool (slight return)
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why is this 1971 advertisement from the era before deejays were cool?
it's not the fashion - the sideburns, the superwide tie.
tha...
The Old Musical Express
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*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...
faves of the 2010s
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(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”...
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...