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New Joy Division & new Mick Jones!

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

From the NME (http://www.nme.com/news/30194):
Joy Division’s back catalogue is to be reissued with extra material to coincide with the release of ‘Control’, the biopic about their singer Ian Curtis.
Both the band’s studio albums, ‘Unknown Pleasures’ and ‘Closer’, and the live album ‘Still’ will be out on September 10 featuring additional CDs of live material.
The film, directed […]

Where are my friends tonight? Again…

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Great article on the ‘melancholy greatness’ of LCD Soundsystem’s fabulous ‘All My Friends’ by Hua Hsu at Slate.
Read it here.
Big thanks go to ‘friend of nothingelseon’ James for the link.
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Talking Heads live in Rome 1980

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

In more Atomic anticipation, some kind soul has uploaded the following live footage of Talking Heads to Youtube:
Talking Heads w/ Adrian Belew
December 1980
“Live in Rome”
Pro-shot live performance of Talking Heads. Another great show from the Adrian Belew era of the Talking Heads. The filming is much different than the Germany show from the same tour, […]

Synth Pop/Electronic History Lesson for download!

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

There is an excellent early electronica/new wave/synth mix available for download here: http://acuterecords.com/blog/?p=12
This is a fantastic sampler of late 70’s/early 80’s electronic, minimal synth, synth-pop music. Includes The Associates, OMD, Paul Haig, Thomas Leer, Cabaret Voltaire, Severed Heads, John Foxx and much more. It was put together by New York DJ & Acute Records supremo […]

Reaching for the sublime in music design

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Nice site hardformat.org set up to celebrate our love of brilliant music-related design.
Hard Format isn’t intended to become a dusty museum devoted exclusively to past glories, though there’ll certainly be some of that, we also want to highlight the brilliant new design work being produced right now. In fact, we’re not setting ourselves up to […]

New Moon on Mondays!

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Blimey! There’s a new Happy Mondays album!
The cover looks like this:

The tracklist is:
1. Jellybean
2. Angels And Whores
3. Deviants
4. Rats With Wings
5. Cuntry Disco
6. In The Blood
7. Anti Warhole On The Dancefloor
8. Rush Rush
9. Uncle Dysfunktional
10. Dr Dick
11. Weather
Out in the UK on 8 July.
I’m kinda interested to hear this, but I’m pretty sure it won’t […]

Return of the mix!

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Here’s the tracklist for the first 24 Hour Party People mixtape (CD actually). I’ll have a few to give away on Saturday night, so if you want one, just come up & ask.
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
Franz Ferdinand - All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem cover)
Arctic Monkeys - Teddy Picker
Pigeon Detectives - I Found Out
Dirty […]

Killer Clowns! Ultraviolence! Kids on swings!

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Yes, it’s the new Arctic Monkeys video for Flourescent Adolescent, the next single due out in the UK on 9 July. Details:
CD & 10″ Tracklisting
1. Fluorescent Adolescent
2. The Bakery
3. Plastic Tramp
4. Too Much To Ask
7″ Vinyl Tracklisting
A. Fluorescent Adolescent
B. The Bakery

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