Category: Reviews

Books, music, international literary movements.

  • Straitjacket Fits supported My Bloody Valentine on their tour of Australia in – help me somebody – was it 1993? and, in the words of one reviewer, “wiped the floor” with the grandparents of shoegazing. You may think I’m coming out of left field with this one but having recently listened to Flying Nun’s excellent…

  • I don’t think My Bloody Valentine ever put out a song or album with the word ‘whatever’ in the title but I should be wrong. My Bloody Valentine are the ultimate Whatever Band. If you’re talking nano, they don’t even register. They’re so early 1990s the NME website doesn’t list any of their records for…

  • Editor: Greg M. Smith Publisher: New York: NYU Press, 1999 Review Published: May 2003 Original source: Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies