The Pop Cop (Free subscription) | yesterday
Andy Murray will go down in Scottish sporting history as a legend but he really needs to work on his off-court personality. He's so fucking miserable we'd assume he psyches himself up in the morning by listening to Joy Division on a loop, so when The Pop Cop found out Murray was about to unleash his first foray into the music world we didn't expect it to be THE WORST RAP EVER . Here for your displeasure...
bomarr blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
absolute body control - "is there an exit?" (download) I actually just stumbled on these guys recently. Absolute Body Control was the first significant project of Dirk Ivens and Eric Van Wonterghem, who later went on to be a part of bands like D.A.F. , Dive , Klinik and Sonar . They were mainly active from 1979-1984, but have since re-formed (in 2006) and re-recorded a lot of their classics...
Buzzin Music Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
A Factory Night (and then again)… Factory Records, founded in Manchester in 1978 by Tony Wilson, Peter Saville and Alan Erasmus, was one of the most important independent record labels. With collaborators as talented as Rob Gretton, Martin Hannett and Mike Pickering, Factory Records launched such famous bands as Joy Division, New Order, The Durutti Column [...]
Igor : Premature Souperhero (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Mick Middles - Factory: The Story Of The Record Label Factory Records are, to those who don't know, the brainchild and record label of Tony Wilson, the man who was behind the Hacienda in Manchester which was the forefront of the introduction of house music and rave culture to Britain, and the "Madchester" phenomenon of the 80s and early 90s. This era was just before my time so naturally I'm...
Hollywood Rag (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
(Wenn) Via Telegraph: Daul Kim, a South Korean supermodel who starred in a string of high-profile fashion campaigns, has been found dead at her luxury apartment in Paris. Her death was discovered after she left a series of messages on a website saying she was "lonely" and "depressed". Kim, 20, was a regular on catwalks in New York, Milan and Paris was found hanged in her city center...
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
New songs from Beach House and Beck? Radiohead and Joy Division covers? A slew of mp3s from some of music's top up-and-comers? It could only be this week's edition of our Friday Mixtape!
Raven Sings the Blues (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
As with the Tom Fazzini record, French cold-wave creatures Soror Dolorosa could teach the current crop of would be dark synth wizards a thing or two about how to properly evoke everlasting despair. Rooted in a metal past but working firmly off the 80's post-punk/cold-wave/darkwave axis; the band matches insistent, twisting riffs with crisp snare snap pulsing underneath a dour-eyed croon that would...
Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Joy Division - Dead Souls Found at skreemr.com Barney the Dinosaur should sing this song for kids.
BBC - Introducing (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Last weekend the Tyneside-based music development agency Generator teamed up with the Discovery Museum in Newcastle to present a free all-ages gig with seven fine upcoming bands from the region, billed as " North East Beat Unsigned - a celebration of new North East music ". They invited Claire Dupree , editor of the influential local music magazine NARC - plus Peter Brewis from Field Music...
Macclesfield Pub Quiz League (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
SPECIALIST QUESTIONS SET BY THE NEW CASTLE 1. Science 2. Local Heroes 3. History 4. Geography 5. Animal Magic 6. Sport: I want to tell you a story 7. Arts and Entertainment: Nemeses 8. Hold the Front Page Science 1. What word describes an object’s ability to return to its original shape after being stretched or compressed? Elasticity or Elastic constant 2. Which part of the human anatomy remains...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
OK--students in my cultural studies course had a bit of a crisis because half of their presentation group dropped out. They are doing a presentation on the Goth subculture and the two members that dropped out were covering the music. So I offered to help out with an introduction to the roots of the Goth sound (as a non-expert)... here is what I came up with, anyone want to suggest additions? 1970s:...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Playing live - sending out emails ... "Forget nostalgia, The Yardbirds have stayed true to their ethic of live experimentation and vicious energy. The Yardbirds paved the way for the Electric Prunes, Doors, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, and Public Enemy. And they still know how to have a rave-up.” Joy Division and Public Enemy? Who knew?
Boomkat: Just arrived (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
COLD CAVE Death Comes Close Matador ELECTRO / SYNTHPOP 12" This is an ultra-limited 12" accompanying Matador's re-release of the universally acclaimed Cold Cave album Love Comes Close, featuring the title track backed with the three bonus tracks exclusive to this release. What sets this band apart from all the other synth-pop and cold wave revivalists is the intense darkness at the heart...
Original Dungeon Keeper (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
I've been thinking of this for a while now, but how amazing would it be if Rockstar made another GTA game in the UK? Think about. It could be set in the 1980's, in some kind of industrial town up north. The story of corruption, deprivation and borderline poverty could all be there along with an overall feeling of depression and the assurance of 110% more Thatcher! The soundtrack would be incredible...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Audion, Pezzner, James Grindle, Travis Baron (Triple Door) Matthew Dear is best known for his morose, song-oriented tech-house output. But as Audion, Dear produces techno that's jacked up on amyl nitrite and Viagra (sample track titles: "Titty Fuck," "Just Fucking") and imbued with the springiness of Olympic high jumpers' quadriceps. For this tour (dubbed "Hecatomb"),...
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