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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.

  • By Simon Reynolds
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly four posts per month
  • First post on

Posts per month

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Oct 2022 2
Nov 2022 0
Dec 2022 4
Jan 2023 2
Feb 2023 2
Mar 2023 0
Apr 2023 1
May 2023 5
Jun 2023 5
Jul 2023 6
Aug 2023 8
Sep 2023 6
Oct 2023 6
Nov 2023 4
Dec 2023 5
Jan 2024 1
Feb 2024 5
Mar 2024 7
Apr 2024 6
May 2024 2
Jun 2024 3
Jul 2024 4
Aug 2024 5
Sep 2024 8
Oct 2024 6
Nov 2024 2
Dec 2024 4

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

tres debonAyers
Some people have compared Kevin Ayers's debonair image to Bryan Ferry - the genuine genteel article as opposed to the faux. Some even see him as a prototype, glam just a little too earlyNot sure …
On , by SIMON REYNOLDS, 526 words
anti-theatricality and politics (slight return)
"Assad's cult is a strategy of domination based on compliance rather than legitimacy. The regime produces compliance through enforced participation in rituals of obeisance that are transparently phony both to those who orchestrate them and …
On , by SIMON REYNOLDS, 340 words
Quentin Crisp - glam theorist
from a 1981 interview with Paul MorleyInteresting comments from Quentin Crisp about music here (similar to Nabokov and Freud's antipathy to music as disequilibrium) which confirms my belief that music in its essence is Dionysian …
On , by SIMON REYNOLDS, 103 words