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Nichola Bruce / Michael Coulson / Laurie Anderson - Arena: The Human Face (1991) - Worth watching for the quaint-yet-eerie morphing and other early-digital FX. And the information about the human face through history and across ...1 day ago
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Of Instagrammatology (slight return) (the eternal returns of....) (unOriginal Mix) - My Instagram keep throwing up reels of *Charlotte de Witte*, who apparently is one of the biggest deejays in the world. I thought I'd check out her stu...4 days ago
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Mixmag - 15 Recent Dance Music Books You Should Read This Summer - Thanks to Gemma Ross for including *Futuromania* in the *Mixmag *list of summer reading for dance music fiends - the full list is h...6 days ago
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CRIzy about those Space Guitars and Synthesised Voices! - *Luke Owen* from *Death Is Not The End* has launched into a run of releases reissuing electronic music put out by *CRI * - Composers Recordings, Inc., o...1 week ago
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RIP Raoul Vaneigem - *Raoul Vaneigem *is one of those thinkers whose thinkige had a *massive* effect on me for a while - and then dropped away almost completely as other in...1 week ago
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Still In A Dream - readers reactions, upcoming events (plus reviews, interviews, translation news etc) - Nearly two months since publication date, Still is still going strongBut please buy it from anywhere else but the Evil Empire - ideally from a booksho...1 week ago
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The Trap Internationale - *The Face *is no more - *again*. Which is sad. But they've also taken down their website, leaving no trace of pieces written in its second incarnation. ...1 week ago
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The Fame Monsters - Strangely no mention of the Blondely Ambitious one in this piece about ambition in pop and "a certain monstrousness" of the popstar personality. Publishe...2 weeks ago
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Epigoners (Honorable and Less Honorable) (not-so-slight return) - In the comments to the previous post about *Robyn Hitchcock* and his epigonic attempt to perpetuate 1967... *Phil Knight* mentioned that there was quite...2 weeks 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 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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