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anti-theatricality in rock (slightest of returns) - Spencer Dryden on the Jefferson Airplane's stage act, 1968: “It’s disorganized. We never know what’s going to happen. It’s different every time. We have...2 days ago
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Science fiction and music - Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded, by Jason Heller 4columns, June 2018 By Simon Reynolds Strange Stars starts with...2 days ago
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A Number of Names, A Trove of Titles - Talking about futuromania, about phases when the chase to get to tomorrow ahead of the pack is the fiercest... oooh that first half of the '90s. Looking...2 days ago
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Archive Fever - Looking up an old tutor of mine who had impressed me, to see if his spoor of publications was distinguished in the field, I came across a lengthy t...1 week ago
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Not Feeliesing It Really - *The Feelies / Died Pretty* *ULU, London* *Melody Maker, November 29 1986* *The Feelies* *The Good Earth* *Melody Maker, Sept...1 week ago
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WHEN MATTS MAKE BOOKS - This is quite a long-running series, now! Not talking about the When Mates Make Books posts, of which there are countless, but specifically When Matts Make...1 week ago
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fave raves - I'm not sure what the logic was exactly but as tie-in to Shock and Awe, *iD* asked me to list my seven favorite / life-changing clubs / nights-out-danci...2 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...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...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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