Tag: Music
“Shoegaze(r)” is more than an early-1990s English pop music genre. Come with me and explore the late 1980s and early 1990s on DDN-808AM … where shuffly beats, baggy trousers and fey looks are provided, plus complimentary NME.
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Les Fauves: “Marijuana is God’s Currency”
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4 min read
“Marijuana Is God’s Currency” hints at an alternative history of the Fauves, in which the band broke up after the failure of The Young Need Discipline.
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Les Fauves: “Dogs Are the Best People” Hater
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3 min read
By 1996 the Fauves had finally become huge in the eyes and ears of the general listening public.
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Les Fauves: “Everybody’s Getting a 3-piece Together”
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4 min read
“Everybody’s Getting a 3-piece Together” sums up a playful side of the Fauves’ music that was strangely absent from their recorded outputs at the time.
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Les Fauves: Dress Ups!
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3 min read
Check out this podcast if you’re into early-1990s OzRock nostalgia!
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Fauves are the best people!
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3 min read
Check out this podcast if you’re into early-1990s OzRock nostalgia!
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Preoccupations @ Petit Bain, Paris
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13 min read
A story at the interface between Australian cricket and Canadian doom rock.
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My Bloody Valentine, ‘Soon’ and the ideal song length
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13 min read
Just how long is seven minutes, anyway?
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Oasis’ Definitely Maybe and the end of indie
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11 min read
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …
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We need to talk about Chris de Burgh’s lyrics.
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Preoccupations: ‘Disarray’ (Toronto, 2018)
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5 min read
My thoughts on hearing but not seeing Preoccupations play live in Toronto in April 2018.
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I remember Australian music in the 1980s
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8 min read
This post started out as a Facebook ‘7-day music challenge’ but as part of my Rejuvenaissance (and in memory of Wa Wa Nee’s Paul Gray) I’m reposting it here, with bonus b-sides. Big thanks to Yarn Akova for inspiring me to do this!
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Netflix series request: ‘You’re Killing Me’
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4 min read
You’re Killing Me, a gritty, eight-part murder mystery based on the true story of US indie rock band Pavement, and the band’s deadly feud with Mark E. Smith of The Fall, should really be streaming now on Netflix.
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Eurovision 2015: Ah, Vienna!
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5 min read
Having watched the 2015 Eurovision final in its entirety, I would agree with the general observation that the entrants this time around were mostly lacking in the somewhat indescribable pizazz that is compulsory if you want to win.
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You may recall that I’ve embarked on a massive project involving an analysis of the early Chris de Burgh albums—and specifically his lyrics. Given the scope of this project, my progress is slow, but steady. However, inevitably, choosing a new WordPress theme (in my case, the wonderful Lovecraft theme by Anders Norén) involves going through…
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“Out of petrol”: Kraftwerk på Cirkus
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9 min read
After taking an eternity to write my review of Animal Collective live in concert, I’ve decided to turn over a new leaf and get snappy. So, without further ado, some words and pictures from last week’s Kraftwerk gig at Cirkus in Stockholm.