Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Old men playing rock, is usually pretty much the personification of embarrassing self delusion. But if people will happily mock the likes of Mick Jagger, for rocking his skinny white ass past his pensioning off age, why are some quite...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
'Telstar', the film about the life of legendary producer Joe Meek, is to premiere at London Film Festival this October.
Billboard (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Influential U.K. post-punk band Magazine is reforming for two shows next February in its home country, its first in 28 years.
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Frequently name checked by some of the most gifted musicians of recent years including Radiohead, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, U2 and Maximo Park - Devoto co-formed Buzzcocks with Pete Shelley after the pair had seen the Sex Pistols in early 1976 and promoted the now legendary Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall gigs.
shipwrecked and comatose (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
i had this whole post written on how i had seen the video for pete shelley's "homosapien" over the weekend and it sounded just like "north american scum" by lcd soundsystem and i was going to post the two videos to see if you guys agreed with me. but just in case i googled it first and it turns out im far from the first person to notice this. so never mind. er... ah.... um..... it is still in the 90s...
Merry Swankster (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Pete Shelley - "Homosapien"
Radio Clash Podcast (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Let's go back to the 1980's; where the hair was crap, the jobs were piss poor, gadgets silly and the music was not bad. The TDK AR90s were far better y'know (72Mb, 90 mins) South Central - Kerosene (Big Black Cover from Buffet Libre - Rewind) Pete Shelley - Homosapien Dalek I Love You - Holiday In Disneyland Liquid Liquid - [...]
Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Barry Adamson, a composer and performing artist that got his start in bands like Magazine, Pete Shelley, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and the Birthday Party. In what some considered to be a strange move, he left the world of rock and roll and studied film at NYU, where he ultimately composed his first solo album Moss Side Story, a movie soundtrack without a movie. His score for the little known film...
Radio Clash Podcast (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Sun? What sun? Summer you say? What's that? Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to Berlin I go ( 41Mb, 53mins) Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook Weezer - Pork And Beans Celebrity Murder Party - Sabotage_The_reaper World Famous Audio Hacker - Never Win Against The Wall Bo Diddley - You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover Soyuzmultfilm - Chunga Changa Ivor Cutler - [...]
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
I never really liked Edwyn Collins. I liked the way he looked and he always seemed pretty cool in interviews... but I just could get into his tunes. No matter, this news is still great and you should read it...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Edwyn Collins has called up an impressive list of artists, actors, musicians and authors to design the sleeve of his new single new single 'Home Again'.
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Sam Taylor-Wood's new short film, about the electricity of first love, went down a storm at both rainy Hay and sunny Cannes - are you looking forward to seeing it?
Culture Bully (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Never heard of The Cops? You will. The Seattle punk/garage band is a rising star in a small but burgeoning revival taking place across the country; mixing political ethos with deadly guitar thrashing, the band's goal seems to be to start a worldwide revolution. After signing up for his militia, Culture Bully's [...]
The Herald (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
After 24 Hour Party People and Anton Corbijn's superb Control, cinemagoers must be close to bagging a collective PhD in the life and times of the titular Manchester band. When placed beside its dramatic predecessors Grant Gee’s documentary is a fairly hum-drum business, but the story of Joy Division is one that can bear retelling.
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Your birthday today: You are an ardent reader and strive to improve yourself generally. You are sensitive and when happy, are extremely exuberant; and when unhappy, depressed. You are affectionate and require a deep and understanding love, which you will reciprocate. You have nobody written into the book (you bipolar bookworm!), so perhaps you will consider the exuberant company of these birthday notables...
