The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
This week’s installment of Review Revue is a bit more modest than last week’s, but my fingers are still tired from all that typing! Yesterday, I stumbled across some CDs in the KEXP library by an artist named Tanita Tikaram. I was first exposed to her music via her cover of “Loving You” [...]
Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
Part two in a series. There’s a rising tide on the rivers of blood But if the answer isn’t violence, neither is your silence - Pop Will Eat Itself, “Ich Bin Ein Auslander” When all is said and done, nothing communicates the racism and knee-buckling stupidity of all-too-wide swaths of our nation quite like video. So if you don’t trust me to tell the truth about these folks, maybe you’ll trust their...
Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Part one in a series. Listen to the victim, abused by the system The basis is racist, you know that we must face this In 1991 Pop Will Eat Itself produced one of the most damning comments on racism in society in the history of popular music. “Ich Bin Ein Auslander” was specifically aimed at anti-immigrant racism in Europe, but over the past 17 years it’s been impossible for me to hear the song without...
Smuggled Sounds (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
The 1994 Phoenix was held from the 14th to the 17 July at Long Marston, Statford-Upon-Avon. The acts were: The Wonder Stuff - Carter USM - The Fall - Squeeze - The Posies - Paul Weller - pop Will Eat Itself- Ozric Tentacles - Crash Test Dummies - Gil Scott-Heron - Senseless Things and many more. SOURCE FM SOUND QUALITY A FORMAT Mp3 BITRATE 256 TRACKS # 25 LOCATION / VENUE Straton upon avon Phoenix...
eyecube (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Remember It’s Gary Shandling Show? It was lauded for it’s ground-breaking style, of “breaking the fourth wall” between the characters and the TV audience at home. Around the same time, a band from England called Pop Will Eat Itself had a couple of hits, Including ‘There’s No Love Between Us Anymore’ and ‘Def Con One.’ I was thinking [...]
The Cedar Lounge Revolution (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Okay, this may seem a bit like a pop will eat itself moment, but as noted in the comments on this thread here is a renewed and refurbished “Forward” from the Connolly Youth Movement (youth movement of the Communist Party of Ireland) for the 21st century. And I note on the WordPress platform too, what [...]
Drifting: A Director's Log (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Pop has a leg up on high art; at its best (and that's a best that is almost entirely subjective), it can freely traverse the currents of cultural favor, flirting with academia as it coasts along the zeitgeist. But...
Aversion Music (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Sometime right between the moment genre fusion was born and it became really annoying, DiNK was born.
The Daily Growl (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Some more good new stuff now. Despite the oddly grand name, The Voluntary Butler Scheme is really just only bloke - Rob Jones - from the unfashionable part of the West Midlands known as Stourbridge, which back in the early 90s was famous for Pop Will Eat Itself, The Wonder Stuff and Neds Atomic Dustbin. But don't worry if you've lost your old German army jacket and DMs with purple laces, because Jones...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Football and music are indelibly linked in the minds of fans, whether the composers like it or not, writes Simon Hawkins
http://shuffleboil.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Pop Will Eat Itself is easily one of the bands I love the most, but they are mostly remembered for the line “Alan Moore knows the score.” Partially because the song that contains it is so damn catchy and fun, but mostly because it’s a very true statement. Everyone in the 80s knew and now [...]
Sound Bites (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
I am still skeptical they can turn Alan Moore's masterful graphic novel, Watchmen, into a 2 1/2 hour movie (a three-part TV miniseries) but damn if the trailer for Zak Snyder's attempt doesn't look amazing. Everyone apart from Ozymandias looks...
Fanboy.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
I have sort of mixed feelings on this one: For starters I feel like the art direction looks too detailed and the lighting is a also a bit too film noir. Although it looks like they have some characters...
Know More Media (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The media blog Fimoculous has become one of my favorite reads lately. It's easy-to-read, well-written and keeps all of Rex Sorgatz's webby projects together in one place. Every once in awhile, the comments section lights up with some glittering moments of webby theory and attitude. Case in point, this post where he discusses his microfame article that was published in New York magazine. A great read,...
Strange Horizons Reviews (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
In the mid-Eighties, music critic Dave Quantick wrote in the NME that "pop will eat itself." And then, to hammer home his point, along came a band and named themselves after this quote. It is hard not to think of this sort of rabid self-cannibalisation when watching any of these three science fiction films
