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Robert Wyatt - *A tribute to Robert Wyatt, written and recorded for remote participation in a 2025 birthday celebration for the Great Man, organized by Sukhdev Sandhu ...5 days ago
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Boards of Canada - Inferno (a Hauntology Parish Newsletter Special Issue) - I have been worried that the brothers’s new effort has not received the amount of attention it deserves. So to boost its profile a bit, here is a little...1 week ago
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Secret thesis (style bible slight return) - Some of this 1984-85 *iD i*magery is genuinely cool, really chic e.g. this one below Or just fun But some of it is a ...1 week ago
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A Wombat’s Anus - So I was feeling like it was time to read a *Margaret Atwood* and I fancied *Oryx and Crake,* having been intrigued by a chapter on it in *Mark Fisher*’...1 week ago
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Of Instagrammatology - Had Instagram for ages and ages but never got into looking at it regularly until quite recently.... the algorithm quickly learned to serve me up dance m...1 week ago
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Musicophilia - "What trifles constitute happiness! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music life would be a mistake. The German imagines even God as a songster." "I would ...1 week ago
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1976: The Arse End of Old Wave (the New Wave barely in sight) - Feels like any week now it ought to be kicking off in terms of Punk Fiftieth Anniversary coverage. Magazine retrospectives, TV programs, exhibitions, boo...1 week ago
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LESS THAN TWO WEEKS UNTIL STILL IN A DREAM IS OUT!! Details of UK Tour, media appearances, 50 Lost Treasures zine, translations, advance praise... - Check out my Instagram Instagram.com/simonreynoldswriter/ for the latest news about Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-...4 weeks ago
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faves of the 2010s - (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”...1 month ago
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Visual Music - a lecture, by me - *Visual Music - a talk at the Tate Modern, July 27 2018* *Presented by 4:3 as part of the Uniqlo Tate Late series* There is a subset of experimental ani...1 month 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...3 years ago
I always love seeing these pieces. That sense of possibility: "There's this new band called The Clash. They could be big!"
ReplyDeleteThe Sounds writers did pretty well, on the old wave as well as the new. Sources suggesting Fleetwood Mac's new album could be a good one...
Interesting to see "new wave" being deployed already by January 1977: I had always thought of it as the marketing term used a year or two later to tidy up the Punk revolution.
And that is future novelist Tim Lott making the case for Cado Belle, isn't it? Not a terrible pick: although they never made it big, Maggie Reilly sounds great on those Mike Oldfield hits.
New Wave was a term used quite early I think. Malcolm McLaren preferred it to punk, possibly because he was a Francophile and a cineaste, so it reminded him of the Nouvelle Vague. Seymour Stein was another one pushing for 'New Wave'.
DeleteIs this the first example of the sanitised, orthodox and asinine take on The Clash, that American-dominated opinion which holds The Clash to be a superior rock band which achieved their full potential when they ditched all that punk claptrap (see also: the championing of Elvis Costello as punk's saving grace)? I find that the American heralding of the virtues of musical slickness and professionalism flosses my helmet red-raw.
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