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The movie below illustrates the results of our first test render looking at the dispersion of particles in a cityscape (see our post on Particles in the City: Agents For Understanding Flow and City Dynamics). Particles in the City from digitalurban on Vimeo . Music by The Soft Boys Its early days so the results to be honest are not great, but it does make an interesting city animation, make them bubbles,...
Filed under: The Interface Spinner.com : To say Memphis punk Jay Reatard is prolific would be an understatement. In his decade-long career, Reatard has unleashed more than sixty releases, his most recent being a series of 7" singles for Matador Records. Reatard's Black Flag meets the Soft... Read more
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, but I sure do love me some zombies, oh yes I do. That’s… er… in the genre sense, of course, not in the romantic sense (and shame on you for thinking so). Zombie Love is absolutely not something that appeals, even after watching Fido. So [...]
I've been pretty crabby lately. Can't you tell? I've also been pretty mean to myself. I have this voice inside my head that constantly thinks negative things... is always judging and condescending. It's been getting worse lately. And I've been trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do from here... where I'm supposed to go. And nothing seems as certain to me as deployment. Out of all of the options...
fig. a: what, no keyboardist? I wanna destroy you I wanna destroy you I wanna destroy you I wanna destroy you --"I Wanna Destroy You," The Soft Boys Skeedle Lee Doo That's all I do --"Skeedle Lee Doo," Blind Blake Then listen now to what I say: Our friend C. once threw the travelin'-band meal to end all travelin'-band meals. A certain band she was fond of was coming to town. She wrote to them and invited...
Katrina & the Waves - Waves (1986) purchase this album (Amazon) Last week, we looked at poor Gregory Abbott’s second album, and the way R&B stardom can evaporate in the blink of an eye. This week’s subjects prove that pop listeners are no less fickle, and that you can go from walking on sunshine to collecting dust [...]
Having read Martin Stannard's post the other day about Robyn Hitchcock's gig at the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham (and having missed said gig thanks to the dreaded norovirus, which has now left me with a kidney infection – happy days), I’ve been playing Hitchcock’s back catalogue non-stop in the car. As the post says, he’s been so prolific over the years that I’ve got nothing like every album he’s made,...
I will surviveCD Choice: ReissueROBYN HITCHCOCK I Wanna Go Backwards Yep Roc There are few mavericks left in rock music, and those that do remain are around or over 50. Rock music these days simply doesn't take to nonconformists the way it did in the 1960s and 1970s. That's why someone as talented as Robyn Hitchcock labours away on the fringes of the music industry, not so much a part of it as someone...
The Primitives - The Ostrich Wolfman Jack and the Wolf Pack - Wolfman Boogie (Part 1) Liberace - Liberace's Twist Murray the K - The Lone Twister Chubby Checker - Move It Fred Astaire - Attitude Dancing Gerrard Kennedy - I Am An Island/Searching/Four Letter Word Esther Rolle - Maybe It's Tiny Tim and Eleanor Baruchian - I Got You Babe Sam Sachs - It's A Lie, It's A Fake Betty Johnston - The Little...
Tidal Waves - Fun, Fun, Fun The Beach Boys - Punchline The Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda Sessions Murray Wilson w/The Sunrays - Colonel's March Hi Hopes - Wipe Out Googie Rene Combo - Smokey Joe's La La Ronny Kae - Swinging Drums Gary Spider Webb - Drum City Part 1 & 2 The Love Sitars - Paint It Black The Electric Prunes - I Had To Much To Dream (Last Night) George Harrison - Wah-Wah Ross Johnson - Signify...
R.E.M.'s Peter Buck joins Robyn Hitchcock and his reconvened Soft Boys on stage at a south London pub. When asked why he had delayed his trip to Dublin to play before a crowd of just 40 people, Buck said, "Hey, it's the Soft Boys - who'd pass up this opportunity?" R.E.M. Peter Buck The Soft Boys Robyn Hitchcock
In 1980. The Soft Boys, of course. The Only Band That Mattered. Or possibly, Elvis Costello, “Peace, Love and Understanding”. In other, less consequential 1980 news: XTC, “We’re Only Making Plans For Nigel”; Boomtown Rats, “I don't like Mondays”. Pretenders, “Brass In Pocket”. Devo, “Whip It”. Talking Heads, “Once In A Lifetime”; The Cure, “A Forest”. UPDATE: by [...]
