When are radicals not radicals? Well, according to Italia 90, it’s sometimes when they’re in polemical bands. The nicely pseudonymized … More
Tag: Post Punk
The Murder Capital – Gigi’s Recovery review
Before and after the release of their stunning debut album When I Have Fears, The Murder Capital had a great … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #20 Joy Division – She’s Lost Control
Released: 1979 A suspicion attached to Joy Division’s first album Unknown Pleasures – usually over ridden by the shrill cries … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #41 Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
Released: 1977 Amongst the artists who emerged from the squalor of the Lower East Side’s ultimate dive bar CBGB in … More
The Lounge Society – Tired of Liberty review
The problem with being a next big thing is one of definition. A couple of decades ago it meant sitting … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #46 Magazine – Shot by Both Sides
Released : 1978 Many people have claimed to have attended one or both of the Sex Pistols’ gigs at Manchester’s … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #49 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – Roadrunner
Released: 1976 Hard luck or hard talk, but at the time Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers went overground, very … More
Interpol – The Other Side of Make-Believe review
The world throws up unlikely paradoxes all the time, but Interpol making an uplifting lockdown album? The Interpol? Being well, … More
Wire – Not About To Die review
The idea of the bootleg is one lost to the mid-late 20th century, so quickly for context it was the … More
TV Priest – My Other People review
TV Priest aren’t the first band to feel some disorientation at the pandemic fame process, which ran a little differently … More