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
Stormin' (the Bachelard series 1 of ?)
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"It seems that the immense void, in suddenly discovering an action, becomes
a particularly clear image of cosmic anger. We could say that the raging ...
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Art as conjuror of the dead.— Art also fulfils the task of preservation and
even of brightening up extinguished and faded memories; when it
accomplishes ...
lost in the schaffel
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Minimal house was in such a rut by the early 2000s they tried to juice it
up with some glammish boogie swing in the form of the "schaffel" fad
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Hinterlands of Memory
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Here's an interesting book - a specifically Canadian perspective on
hauntology, exploring the nexus of nationality, landscape and memory in
the 1970s...
Naffrofuturist (slight return)
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Around this time, *Sounds* actually had a Futurists Chart in their charts
page. Initially it was compiled by Stevo of Some Bizzare f...
"jumping iz not a crime"
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Kieran Press-Reynolds with a guest piece at Shawn Reynaldo's First Floor,
while the main man takes a vacation. It's a report on "the holy hell of
cursed j...
Mashupmanship ("lameness on the horizon")
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*LAMENESS ON THE HORIZON*
*(from 2001, Unfaves, off the old website A White Brit Rave Aesthete
Thinks Aloud)*
I was enjoying the Avalanches show at SOB...
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