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Spam Risk / Scam Risk - Dear Simon Reynolds, My name is ___________________ and I work with the programming team at BBC Radio 4, a nationally recognized Hot Adult Contemporar...11 hours ago
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Pure Inspiration - Well, I may not have provoked a musician to pen a retaliation tune (unlike my own flesh and blood, who recently joined a select pantheon of irritant crit...22 hours ago
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Presentemanía - In November last year, Kieran and I joined Argentine critics *Pablo Schanton* and *Antonia Kon* to discuss music writing and music's future as part o...2 days ago
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Absolutely *fascinating* current affairs programme from 1972 looking at advice columnists - Dr Stephen Black talks to Marjorie Proops of the *Daily Mir...3 days ago
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Letter to a Young Music Critic - The easy answer: if you want your writing to be more passionate, write about things you feel passionate about Otherwise it can feel a bit forced If you ...5 days ago
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Still In A Dream: UK events, media appearances + articles, Fifty Lost Treasures zine, translations, Rough Trade offer, and more - LATEST: Me talking Dream @ Word In Your Ear podcast w/ Mark Ellen + Dave HepworthLATEST: Me talking Dream at Paul McDermott's To Here Knows When podcast.^^...1 week ago
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Fuck Art, Let's Dance / Fuck Dance, Let's Art - *(a talk I gave at Harvard in 2012 at a conference on Art + Rock) * “When 'art' walks through the door, it's got 15 suitcases full of very smelly washi...1 week ago
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secret thesis (slight unsightly return) - Is that bended knee meant to suggest an enormous deformed erection? Not a good look - in both the clothing/coiff...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”...3 weeks 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...4 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...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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