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!
A 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...
If 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.
anti-theatricality in rock (slightest of returns)
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Spencer Dryden on the Jefferson Airplane's stage act, 1968: “It’s
disorganized. We never know what’s going to happen. It’s different every
time. We have...
Science fiction and music
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Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded, by
Jason Heller
4columns, June 2018
By Simon Reynolds
Strange Stars starts with...
A Number of Names, A Trove of Titles
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Talking about futuromania, about phases when the chase to get to tomorrow
ahead of the pack is the fiercest... oooh that first half of the '90s.
Looking...
Archive Fever
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Looking up an old tutor of mine who had impressed me, to see if his spoor
of publications was distinguished in the field, I came across a lengthy
t...
Not Feeliesing It Really
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*The Feelies / Died Pretty*
*ULU, London*
*Melody Maker, November 29 1986*
*The Feelies*
*The Good Earth*
*Melody Maker, Sept...
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I like the way he reprimands himself for not having bought his pale blue
pegs from the right shop - “should have been from Lord John or Take Six”.
The mo...
WHEN MATTS MAKE BOOKS
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This is quite a long-running series, now! Not talking about the When Mates
Make Books posts, of which there are countless, but specifically When Matts
Make...
fave raves
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I'm not sure what the logic was exactly but as tie-in to Shock and Awe, *iD*
asked me to list my seven favorite / life-changing clubs /
nights-out-danci...
RIP David Lynch
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"Six Men Getting Sick" was Lynch's first exploration into film, made during
his second year of study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in
Phi...
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...
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.