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Surviving Threads: Why Are People Drawn To The World's Most …
Sep 18, 2024 · Many screenings are happening this month, one staged in a nuclear bunker, another followed by a walking tour of Cold War locations, several featuring specially pre-recorded Q&As.A sold-out screening at the Sheffield Film Festival this summer even featured a Q&A with its most famous extra: Michael Beecroft, a traffic warden who moonlighted as an extra on local productions, and spent just one ...
Special New Band: The Hard Quartet Interviewed
Oct 2, 2024 · “The Travelling Wilburys just wanted to play with Roy Orbison. In some ways, we’re doing that too.” Stephen Malkmus muses on his latest pursuit – an ensemble that’s a bit more than just a special new band: The Hard Quartet.Featuring the Pavement frontman alongside Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White, the proudly leaderless line-up could be an AI-generated schematic of indie rock ...
The Strange World Of… Gruff Rhys
Jan 17, 2024 · "I still feel I need to do something original", says Gruff Rhys as he ponders his ongoing motivation for making music. "I’m working with quite a limited palette in a way and just looking for ways to make unique music. I still feel there are things I need to try out. I still feel in […]
Separate The Game From The Truth: Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die
Sep 13, 2024 · Ready To Die was a difficult album to listen to while its maker was still with us, but it’s impossible to hear now without your knowledge of what happened to him two-and-a-half years after its release fogging your vision and altering its context. What it meant and what it has come to mean are two completely different things, but the former is so obscure as to be irrelevant, so elusive we can ...
The Sound of the City: Pet Shop Boys’ West End Girls 40 Years on
May 21, 2024 · The sharp eyes of pop past had seen the bruising reality beneath the romantic metropolitan promise. In1966, the capital’s swinging scene was eviscerated by The Kinks (‘Dead End Street’, ‘Big Black Smoke’) and Bowie (‘The London Boys’). During punk, it was a place of high-octane danger, full of “Hades ladies dressed to …
The Unlikely Return of The Wolfgang Press
Sep 26, 2024 · Despite TWP’s lineage being none more post punk, the dolorous The Burden of Mules (1983) – described by John Peel as “the most consciously morose record I’ve ever heard” – is a bit of an anomaly, one that the now three piece quickly moved on from. With Gray fully onboard, the trio released three EPs produced by Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie which hinted at potential futures ...
Manic Street Preachers Detail New Album, ‘Critical Thinking’
Oct 25, 2024 · Manic Street Preachers have shared details of their 15th studio album, Critical Thinking. The new record includes the August-released single ‘Decline & Fall’, as well as new track ‘Hiding In Plain Sight’, which sees the group’s bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire step up to take lead vocals for the first time.
"Not Doing Things Is Soul Destroying" - Kevin Shields Of MBV ...
May 10, 2012 · And the funny thing is, we’d heard nothing yet. The galloping heart, the unbearable urgency, even that bit in the middle where it just kind of froze, tipped a gallon of petrol over itself, grinned and flicked the lighter… it turned out we’d heard nothing yet.‘You Made Me Realise’ may still be the greatest pop record My Bloody Valentine ever made, but once the album Isn’t Anything ...
Playful yet Professional, Nevertheless: a Pet Shop Boys Interview
May 20, 2024 · The Pet Shop Boys know what they’re doing. Whenever Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe sit down for an interview, you’re guaranteed a dynamic that’s gold dust for journalists: Tennant delivers thoughtful reflection and piquant quotes, Lowe jumps in to offer asides or take the mick – deadpan, down to earth.