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P is for Paladin.... and also for Picador - *Paladin* - second only to *Picador* as a publisher's name to set the arty-intellectual bibliophile's heart a flutter... Rad...2 hours ago
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who's a pretty boy then - One moderately intriguing counterfactual in rock history is what would have happened if *John McKay* and Kenny Morris had not quit the ...1 day ago
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Footberk - *Jan Błaszczak* tells me about a Polish musician who has come up with a mad twist on footwork: *Piotr Gwadera*, recording as* Gary Gwadera, *combines the...4 days ago
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Booker Contra The Future - Christopher Booker's *The Neophiliacs: A Study of the Revolution in English life in the Fifties and Sixties * was published in 1969....4 days ago
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RIP Geoff Nicholson - Well, if the last few weeks in LA have not been traumatizing enough - and then we've had the hideousness of the inauguration and unfolding horror of the...4 weeks ago
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The Final Countdown - Bandying the word "apocalypse" feels a little off after the local events of last week, but here is Kieran-Press Reynolds on The TikTokalypse - a Pitchfork ...4 weeks ago
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RIP David Lynch - "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...4 weeks ago
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Hauntology Parish Newsletter - Christmas Edition: Moon Wiring Club; Dismal 1970s - Stonecirclesampler + Travis Elborough; Sophie Sleigh-Johnson's Code Damp; William Burns's Ghost of An Idea; Mart Avi + Ajukaja - *S**eason'**s greetings from "a person of gravitas and insight, who says their prayers, and is sensitive to the potential of mission as 'parish-shaped'"...2 months ago
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50 Favorite Songs - (for an Italian publication, 2009) The Eyes -- "When the Night Falls" The Beatles -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" John's Children -- "A Midsummer ...5 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...2 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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