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ardkive fever - the eternal returns - Brand-new anachronism from* Z-Neo* Fault-less - very-nearly-convincing as time travel The artwork by one AROE is very in the wildstyle of DJ Trax early ...6 days ago
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Do Anything You Wanna Do - One of those groups who are let down a little by their front man's appearance - not that he isn't "charismatic", he certainly commands the stage.... ...1 week ago
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RIP Ken Downie a.k.a. The Black Dog - Big shout to *Matthew Ingram* the Mighty Woebot whose tape of the early Black Dog EPs introduced me to their most magickal musik phase. Here is Matt's love...1 week ago
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living in the ethereal world - And I am an ethereal boy... My faves of 1987 in the Melody Maker end-of-year Xmas edition2 weeks ago
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The Future Is Behind Us - Specifically the future of cinema - *specifically* specifically 3D movies, as reported in this Atlantic piece . How funny that it should happen *again *...2 weeks ago
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the sound of the suburbs - Really happy to have the opportunity to write about one of my favorite albums of the 21st Century so far: Suburban Tours by Rangers. For Pitchfork's Sunday...3 weeks ago
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Hauntology Parish Newsletter Yuletide Edition: Ghost Box 20th; Moon Wiring Club; Lo Five; Oneohtrix Point Never; Jean-Michel Jarre, Bernie Parmegiani, Ms. Jean Schwarz, Kilkenny Electroacoustic Lab - Sweeping up the mince pie crumbs and taking down the tinsel, while feeling one-sherry-too-many green-about-the-gills - that's yours truly the d...4 weeks ago
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Circle of Light (1972) - Anthony Roland / Pamela Bone / Delia Derbyshire +Elsa Stansfield. - Would dearly like to see the whole of this film, based on Pamela Bone's amazing photographs Now did not know this Arena docu-drama existed - they d...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...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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