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sugared hiccups (UK rock 'n' roll 1 of ??) - "He didn't have much of a voice either, he was all nose and tonsil, a poor man's Buddy Holly. What he did have, though was... a certain persistent odd...2 days ago
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anti-theatricality + politics (one more for the road) - On the ever darkening bronzer *The more extreme he becomes politically, the more theatrical his public persona must be. The dictator persona is full of o...2 days ago
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Scroll on - A little souvenir of a terrible year... something I wrote about doomscrolling for *Sasha Frere-Jones's* end-of-year writer-buddies round-up, looking bac...2 days ago
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Project Future - Interesting post by *Derek Walmsley* at *Slow Motion* blog, based on his research for liner notes for a new *Soul Jazz* compilation: *Electro Throwdown:...1 week ago
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It's Different For Girls (Auto-Tune) - Following on from the "my kind of rap" post with its coda about Auto-Tune and ad libs. Here's something that's been puzzling me for a while... Q: Why ha...1 week ago
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It's not the economy, stupid - Just over two weeks to go now... How strange it feels to be waiting, in hideous suspense, to see if you're going to be living in a flawed but functioning...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...3 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...5 weeks 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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- David Stubbs - King Crimson - Melody Maker - Janua...
- Paul Mathur - Belgian Techno Anthems - Melody Make...
- Kodwo Eshun - Club Trax columns - 1993 - The Wire
- Steve Albini - Slint - Spiderland - Melody Maker -...
- David Stubbs - Morrissey: Viva Hate - Melody Make...
- Roy Hollingworth - New York Dolls - Melody Maker -...
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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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