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avant intro - just the first 15 seconds of this Play for Today from 1970 and again Another brief avant-y intro And one more time for this much more relaxed, nos...1 hour ago
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RIP Tony McPhee - This is my fave Groundhogs tune - when I first heard it, something about its wiry angularity reminded me of, well, Wire. Then years later I read somewhere ...19 hours ago
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Weimar n'B: The Weeknd - *in cerebration of The Idol - nasty, silly drama series starring and built around / built to the creepy specifications of The Weeknd, a show precision-sk...1 day ago
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Shadowplay - Probably if you are reading this blog, you've already heard the news that the entire *Moving Shadow* back catalogue, or near enough, suddenly materialise...1 day ago
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All the Old Dudes - The news that* Ian Hunter* just turned 84 reminded me of one of my fave facty surprises when doing *S+A*, which is learning that when the Mottma...2 days ago
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fave theorists - *Roland Barthes*, *The Pleasure of the Text* is probably my favoritest. A joy to read, broken up in nice little aphoristic short sections, a mind rearra...1 week ago
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The Rift of Retro - pinpointed! - Trying to pinpoint the Rift of Retro, the date kept shifting back. Initial thought was circa 1983-84, when postpunk's forward drive entropized and left-...1 week ago
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Kenneth Anger - Eaux D'Artifice (1953) - "When they get around to unpicking the tangled threads that connect The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Psychic TV, somewhere at the web's centre will ...2 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...8 months ago
These are fantastic. He’s someone else I wish had written more books. Even just a new edition of More Brilliant Than the Sun would be nice: I lost my copy and it’s currently selling for $350 on EBay. A while back Amazon had it for $1000!
ReplyDeleteA Verso reissue of More Brilliant Than the Sun is supposed to have been coming out every year for about the last five or six years. I prematurely announced it at least 3 times on Blissblog! I wonder what is holding it up...
ReplyDeleteIf I have spare time I may put the rest of the club licks columns up, he did them most months for a bunch of years. Great commentary that should be out there for people to enjoy.
Then there are the all pieces he did for iD and The Wire etc.