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10 blogs in Simon Reynolds' blogs.

  1. blissblog
    By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    2024-05-16 18:40
    Had a good chat with Günseli Yalcinkaya for Dazed magazine about Futuromania, "the anti-humanist tone" versus the quirky all-too-human individuals and desires that animate machine music, and much more. A kind of rehearsal for our …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 42 words

  2. Energy Flash
    "My purpose was simple: to catch the feel, the pulse of rock, as I had lived through it. What I was after was guts, and flash, and energy, and speed" - NIK COHN. By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    through rushes and through briars
    I always heard the sampled lyric in "Sub Dub" as "through rushes and through briars" - thinking the word "rush" with its ravey connotations snagged the ear of DJ SeductionActually it's "Bushes and Briars"Through bushes …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 497 words

  3. FAVES / UNFAVES
    CHEESY WOTSITS. By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    four favorite riffs
    Not actually my four absolute favorite riffs (Lord alone knows where I'd start with that) but four of my favorite riffs, commented on for The Wire's Greatest Riffs feature of 2004 KING SUNNY ADE -- …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 718 words

  4. Found Objects
    Hauntological dumping ground. By Keith Seatman, Simon Reynolds, et al. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Daily Doodle
    A sketchbook page.
    By Wastedpapiers, 5 words

  5. Hardly Baked 2 - my drivel blog
    replacing Hardly Baked … "Really awful is more interesting to listen to than pretty good" - Eno. By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    mouth music (vout to lunch)
    Non-vout but a lot of fun:
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 11 words

  6. PANTHEON
    By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Steve Albini RIP - his review of Slint's Spiderland (Melody Maker, March 30, 1991)
    Apparently this review was not commissioned - it just arrived in the mail and reviews editor Everett True ran it. Albini actually started as a music journalist, writing for zines while at college even as …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 2,751 words

  7. RETROMANIA
    "this person's not had enough of useless memories" - John Lydon, possibly misheard. By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Totally Frye-d (You Got To Slow Down)
    " The first chapter of the book, called “City of the End of Things,” describes “the alienation of progress,” one of the elements which constitute the modern mythology. Modern consciousness, in this reading, ends in …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 211 words

  8. ReynoldsRetro
    "there are immaturities, but there are immensities" - Bright Star (dir. Jane Campion). By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Steve Albini RIP
    Shocked and shaken by the way-early death of Steve Albini. Saddened too.People I've met through this music thing are thinning down in number, it feels like. I interviewed Steve three times.The first time was with …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 2,686 words

  9. Shock and Awe 2
    successor to Shock and Awe … the blog of the Simon Reynolds book about glam and artpop of the 1970s and its aftershocks and reflections to this day. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Glam from Elsewhere in the Anglophonosphere
    Well, if Canadian hauntology wasn't surprising enough, here's a whole book on Canadian glamYes it is an "untold story".When I was doing my wide-trawling research for S+A, I did come across examples of glam 'n' …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 467 words

  10. Thinkige Kru 2
    successor to Thinkige Kru … vintage thoughts from others, vintage thoughts from me - varying degrees of profundity. By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    2024-05-17 02:29
    “Branca had me shaking . . . I found myself responding in ways that brought me back to my ego. My feelings were disturbed.... I found in myself the willingness to connect the music with …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 240 words