Single section at Vinyl Demand
“A record store, like Jesus and a puppy, are for life, not for a one day celebration.” So texted my associated editor, Orestes P. Xistos when I asked him if he’d join me in filming the people queuing outside Record Collector, a shop smack in the heart of the now dying Broomhill area of Sheffield, England. (more…)
April 23, 2013 | Categories: rant, Retro is better than autotune, When editors don't do their job, Where's my mars bar | Tags: Broomhill, Knife and Folk, LP Record Store, rant, Record Collector, Record store day, Record Store Day 2013, Sheffield, Vinyl Demand | Leave A Comment »
Baby steps is our “introduction to…” column. Yes, there might be a few Bill Murray fans here. This week’s instalment is courtesy of Simon Roberts. The subject? Read on…
October 5, 2012 | Categories: Baby Steps, Introducing, Retro is better than autotune | Tags: Baby Steps, Geoff Farina, Jazzy Rock, Karate, Underrated | Leave A Comment »
Nevermind reached dizzying commercial heights mainly due to that song; you know the one about spirit with the video that has loads of smoke and cheerleaders. It defined the term ‘grunge’ to a lot of people, and for a few uneducated people, it probably still does. (more…)
October 3, 2012 | Categories: 90's, grunge, Looking back at, Proper Rock, Retro is better than autotune | Tags: In Utero, Kurt Cobain., looking back at, Nirvana, The Lost Gem | Leave A Comment »
I gotta be honest: for a big while I was “allergic” to Rock en Español. The reasons are a bit complex and not related to the music per se, but other factors. It took me a while to really warm up to any band from my own country, but then again, I was a late bloomer to most music. (more…)
September 26, 2012 | Categories: Baroque, Chamber Pop, Classic, Looking back at, rant, Retro is better than autotune, reviews | Tags: Chetes Garza, Fernando Martz, Hombre Sintetizador, looking back at, The Lost Gem, Zurdok | 3 Comments »
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September 25, 2012 | Categories: 80's, ALL HAIL KING SQUIRREL, If I ever have kids I will name them Otto and Duke, Musing, Navelgazing, Proper Pop, Proper Rock, Punk, Retro is better than autotune, Reverb pedal: love it, reviews | Tags: Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra, Black Francis, Matthew Sweet, Mike Watts and the Second Men, Moses Coltrane, New York Rivals, Paying it forward, Polar Bear Club, Repo Man, The Suicide Dolls, The Tellers, Those Darlins, Tribute, Weekend | 1 Comment »
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September 17, 2012 | Categories: Apocalyptic stuff, Art rock, Classy, Cult Sci Fi and its place in music, Experimental, Going the extra mile, I take the Lord Jebus and all his cohorts' music, If I ever have kids I will name them Otto and Duke, Prog, Proper Pop, Proper Rock, Psychedelic, rant, Retro is better than autotune, reviews, Where's my mars bar | Tags: ((O)), bracket bracket hug bracket bracket, Hey Sholay, Onslaught sells doughnuts, Psychedelic pop, Sholay Hugs | Leave A Comment »
Some albums strike a chord in the heart of individuals more than others. There are those that shake us to our bones, the metaphorical dirt and dust of our souls shook clean, leaving us clean and bright. Others are akin to a fire, illuminating and warming us. Of course the flipside to this analogy is that like a fire, these albums can eventually die out, leaving ashes, darkness and a feeling of cold in it’s place. (more…)
August 7, 2012 | Categories: Looking back at, Retro is better than autotune, reviews | Tags: Idlewild, Review, The Remote Part | Leave A Comment »
From time to time, we like to talk about albums that time has forgotten about. Lost Gems is a column dedicated to albums that were overlooked in their time or simply don’t get that much press today, and we think it’s a damn shame. This time around, we invited Simon Roberts (Morricone Dancehall, The Farewell State, The Letter) to write about a sweet little topaz called King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime. (more…)
August 3, 2012 | Categories: Experimental, Looking back at, Pondering, rant, Retro is better than autotune, reviews, Unsung Legends | Tags: Billy Gould, Dean Menta, Faith No More, King for a day fool for a lifetime, looking back at, Lost Gems, Mike Bordin, Mike Patton, Roddy Bottum, Trey Spruance | Leave A Comment »
“So, where were you?”
“In a bus that passed through all the filming locations of Four Lions. It was as weird as that time that I answered a Physics exam with a quote by Tom Baker’s Doctor Who about entropy…” (more…)
July 20, 2012 | Categories: Retro is better than autotune, reviews | Tags: Arkham Horror, Board Games, Games Britannia | Leave A Comment »
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July 9, 2012 | Categories: I take the Lord Jebus and all his cohorts' music, Math Rock!, Psychedelic, Retro is better than autotune, Reverb pedal: love it, reviews | Tags: Coloso, Ethereal, Gragrofe, Home, Lumiere, Magical Realism in Music, Mexico, Space Rock | Leave A Comment »
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June 27, 2012 | Categories: Apocalyptic stuff, Doodling, Dreamy, Retro is better than autotune, Reverb pedal: love it, reviews, shoegaze, Unsung heroes of music | Tags: Highlands, Psychedelic, Shoegaze, Singularity, Trippy shit is awesome | Leave A Comment »
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May 14, 2012 | Categories: Alt country, Covers, Proper Rock, Retro is better than autotune, reviews, Unsung heroes of music, Unsung Legends | Tags: Big Star, Counting Crows, Gram Parsons, Sad Miserable Bastard Music, Sordid Humor, Underwater Sunshine, Unsung legends do well | Leave A Comment »
It’s an interesting moment when The Pale Pacific‘s EP, Rules are predictable, stops. The thought of “what did I just listen to?” floats around in your head. Not because of them being overtly experimental guys with masks playing 5/4 signatures with lyrics about Picasso fighting Lavoisier, but because of the genres the band tackles. (more…)
May 8, 2012 | Categories: Looking back at, Retro is better than autotune, reviews | Tags: Lost Gems, Rules are predictable, The Pale Pacific, Underrated | Leave A Comment »
Part 1: Rowche Rumble (Single) and Dragnet (Album) (1979)
Editor’s note: Pete and Ed are part of Sheffield‘s own Pisco Sour Hour. They also dabble in all things The Fall, going on a release-per-release basis in one mammoth of a project (here). We are happy to haven them guest-writing for us. (more…)
April 3, 2012 | Categories: Looking back at, Retro is better than autotune, reviews | Tags: Dragnet, Mark E. Smith, Pisco Sour Hour, the Fall | Leave A Comment »
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February 16, 2012 | Categories: Apocalyptic stuff, Gothic, Piano, rant, Retro is better than autotune, reviews, Wednesday Addams | Tags: Birdeatsbaby, Feast of the hammers, Gothic, Proggy and Dark | Leave A Comment »
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Greetings, readers bought all seven copies of my self-help guide, Getting back at the rustler that stole your red oxen (vol .2 Electric Boogaloo)! Welcome to another edition of our “off again, off again, hey it’s on again!” single reviews column. Granted, some of them aren’t singles, but I liked them and made my stupid human collaborators review ‘em. Mahalo.
This week’s singles are double-double, so watch out for that trans fat in our delicious cuts of smoked shoegazing bacon. Mind the indie dance chicken. And for Krist Novoselic‘s sake, don’t throw your bass in the air, you might end up writing political science for the rest of your life while you wallow in self-pity on that day you said no to a high paying job packing foodstuffs in orange bags at Sainsbury’s.
Ah, singles, right:
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February 13, 2012 | Categories: 80's, Alt country, Americana, Art rock, Atheist Rock, Baroque, Bass is underrated, Proper Pop, Proper Rock, rant, Retro is better than autotune, Reverb pedal: love it, reviews, Scary, singles, Where's my mars bar | Tags: Adi Carter, Black Market Serotonin, Floating Death Picnic, Heroes of the Mexican Independence Movement, Holy Fuckbeans that's a shitload of singles, Johann Reinhold, Ninetails, Nowhere Again, rant, singles, The Bedford Incident, The Hudares, What the blood revealed | 1 Comment »
