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those not-horny horns (slight not-return) - Listening to this perfect little tune - a favorite from 2step garage days - I noticed how the whole track is propelled along by horn fanfares. I'm ass...17 hours ago
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reading matters / music that stutters - Chal Ravens has written a lovely in-depth review of Still In A Dream at London Review of BooksThere's even an LRB playlist so you can listen as you readKie...2 days ago
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Tellus a story - Death Is Not The End takes avant-garde LPs originally released by a New York artist-owned label and reissues them as cassettes.... *Earth Libraries* tak...2 days ago
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RIP Tim Curry - A glam icon obviously for his *Frank N Furter* in *The Rocky Horror Picture Show*, a movie much darker and more interesting than I had first imagined and...2 days ago
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Hauntology Parish Newsletter - Late Summer Edition: Belbury Poly, Fil OK, Jamie Sexton, Brutalist Ghost Stories, Hauntology and Spectrality Group, Moon Wiring Club, Lawrence English, Regina Collage, Jabu, Space Afrika, Conflux Coldwell, Luke Haines, Realm of Dusk, Ekoplekz - August is the deadest month. And somehow, even though you've been here so many times before, you're never prepared for the way that each wee...3 days ago
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A Telex from yesterday's future - An example of what I call "the rhetorics of temporality" - the way critics compulsively position and reposition things they like, or are...1 week ago
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Michel Gondry - Snowbound (1993) - Peak pop video? Probably not (some of the most expensive promos were made during the late '90s, the Hype Williams era - e.g. Busta and Janet's astoun...1 week 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”...4 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...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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