The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gigs aside, for Kevin Shields to make his comeback not with the third My Bloody Valentine album he's promised for 17 years but a reissue of the last one, remastered to little purpose, is only fitting.
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Listening Post's continuing look at the resurgence of so-called shoegaze wouldn't be complete without a chat with the man behind the aural soundscapes of Slowdive, which formed in 1989 and signed shortly thereafter to the scene-making label Creation. Sharing space...
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
"Shoegaze is a dumb term made up by clueless NME idiots," argues Mogwai's Stuart Brathwaite, a My Bloody Valentine fan as well as a friend of its architect Kevin Shields. "It's pretty demeaning as well. If someone called us shoegazers,...
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
in post Take some salt and sugar and rub it in your eyes: "Candleland (The Second Coming)" by Ian McCulloch from Timedoor .
Minipundit (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Music dorks like myself like lists, and so naturally I appreciated it when the AV Club's Steve Hyden decided to make a list of his favorite albums from each year he's been alive (if and when I get paid to...
The Yellow Stereo (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
“List your favorite record from every year you’ve been alive.” While catching up on my blog reading after the uneventful holiday weekend (lots of sleeping happened, if you’re curious), I happened to come across an interesting list-making idea on a couple of blogs. Typically, you would see this kind of thing on someone’s livejournal or something [...]
Idolator (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
1979: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Rust Never Sleeps 1980: The Feelies, Crazy Rhythms 1981: Kix, Kix 1982: The Fall, Hex Enduction Hour 1983: Kix, Cool Kids 1984: The Replacements, Let It Be 1985: Cocteau Twins, The Pink Opaque 1986: The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead 1987: Prince, Sign 'O' The Times 1988: Half Japanese, Charmed Life 1989: Ice-T, The Iceberg/Freedom Of Speech...Just Watch What You Say 1990:...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Review: Following the lush soft-focus of their fourth album, Seventh Tree, the stage set confirmed that this is a wispier Goldfrapp than the leather-clad glam diva of yore.
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Japanese neurologist Dr. Takuro Endo has made a nice career out of knocking people out. Recently, he tried it on a mass scale in Tokyo, in a show called "Dreams Kaimin." The result? A partial snooze. According to The Times,...
Discobelle.net (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Patrick North (from SLU fame) hooked us up with this gem. SALEM will be the debut on his brand new label Acephale The record is due to be finished up in a few weeks and it’s pretty much already sold out. The sound is kind of hard to describe but here is Patricks attempt: “there [...]
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Camera Obscura frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell shares her top five musical moments
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
In June 1991, David Lynch concluded his paradigmatic television series Twin Peaks with a destablizing finale. A challenging 1992 prequel film came next and then...nothing. Until now. Sorta. From shoegaze reunions and documentaries to the forthcoming September release of Dresdon...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Last week's dive into the surreal proved unexpectedly instructive. For a start, it turns out that hyperbole and linguistic sloppiness are more permissible in everyday speech than they are when asking people to recommend songs on a specific topic. Who...
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Music blogging network MOG has added lyrics to millions of songs on its website, as part of a deal with Gracenote. Oddly, copy-and-pasting has been disabled, but the site provides accurate lyrics and isn't addled by the pop-ups and other...
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
In the pre-SXSW installment of the Outsiders, I posted "Invisible" by Grouper, aka Liz Harris. The song came from her then unreleased Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill , which finally arrived yesterday and is a stunner. Harris's past collections -- Way Their Crept and Wide -- were noisier than this new one and she's upped her vocals in the mix. You might think a bit of fellow Oregon resident (and shop...
