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WoW!

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Bloody hell, what a fantastic night on Saturday night at ATOMIC – thanks to all who came down, I hear the floor was seriously bouncing! Apologies to all of you whose requests I never got around to playing (or had stupidly left at home – I can only carry so many at a time you [...]

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. B

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 [...]

Hey, this ain’t my normal band … but what’s normal about a band anyway!

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

Um, in the spirit of the upcoming Atomic, I offer you this: more Debbie Harry with added muppets. Now you may think that I have a thing about muppets, but I assure you not. Honest! B

Smiths still split! New DVD out though!

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

In other news, former bassist with The Smiths Andy Rourke has quashed hopes for a future Smiths reunion, insisting Morrissey is impossible to even contact, let alone coax into reforming, so says the NME here anyway. Best quote of the story must be this (if you don’t want to read the whole thing!): …when asked [...]

Hookless!

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

In breaking news, seems like Peter Hook has left New Order. This from the NME (full story here): New Order without bassist Peter Hook after band members Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris issued a statement today (July 20) saying they vowing to continue. The pair’s statement comes after former bassist Hook claimed recently that he [...]

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 [...]

New Look!

Friday, July 13th, 2007

You’ve probably noticed, though. Just a few more bugs to iron out. Let me know what you think. B

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 [...]

Record Stores: outlook not so bleak?

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Nice article in the Guardian about how specialised record stores are carving out a niche & staying alive here. Big shout out to the fine folks at Wellington’s only independent record store that matters: Slow Boat! Bill

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