You could probably write a doctoral dissertation on British pop music in the first half of the 1980s — in fact, I’m sure many people have. There were so many groups forming, breaking up, fracturing, starting new groups, innovating, influencing, ripping off and inspiring each other, it practically requires an advanced degree to even [...]
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Felt were a band from Birmingham, England. They existed for 10 years (more or less the 1980s), and put out 10 albums and 10 singles (that has to have been on purpose, right?). The singer of the band went by the name Lawrence (a much humbler-sounding mononym than, say, Prince or Madonna or [...]
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Sometimes the stuff DJs write on record covers is very informative, and can really tell us a lot about the band or album in question, or at least give an insightful glimpse into those bygone days. Sometimes, however, they latch onto a misunderstood word in the title of an album and turn it into a [...]
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Man, who would have thought a band called Butthole Surfers — with an album titled Locust Abortion Technician – would generate such a heated discussion amongst the KCMU staffers?
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Yes indeed, we all have off days. The KCMU consensus seems to have been that Condition Blue was one such day for The Jazz Butcher. Me, I’m having a very on day and unfortunately don’t have much time to come up with the delightful introductory prose I usually do, so please just look [...]
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You know who doesn’t get a lot of respect these days? The prog rockers. Yeah, that’s right: the noodlers, the wankers, the incessant time-signature-changer-uppers, the guys with boards full of effects for their guitars and lyrics about larks’ tongues and moonchildren and crimson kings. And I totally get it. But have [...]
One of my favorite discoveries of 2009 is Green Monkey Records, a small local label that first started putting out rock music in Seattle when Nirvana was just a gleam in Kurt Cobain’s eye (or something like that), and managed to get out of the business just before they could have actually made any money. [...]
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Maybe it was the mental scarring I received from watching The Wall in the movie theater at the age of 6 or 7 (”It has animation!” my older brother said. “It’s like a cartoon!”), but Syd Barrett was always my favorite member of Pink Floyd. In my teenaged years, I spent many an [...]
This week’s installment of Review Revue is another bit of nostalgic indulgence for this Boston boy; I hope you don’t mind.
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Sure, most of us first heard the song “Sliver” when it was released on Incesticide in 1992, but it was actually quite a successful single in its own right in 1990. (It even has its own Wikipedia page! And a video! Not bad for a song recorded in one hour while another [...]
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