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10 blogs in Simon Reynolds' blogs.

  1. blissblog
    By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Futuromania - out today!
    The UK edition of Futuromania is out today on White Rabbit ! Via select record stores, comes with a limited edition freezine of bonus pieces! Check out this radio show about Futuromania I pulled together …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 35 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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    RIP MC Duke
    RIP MC Duke Another of those figures who moved through the UK rap scene and into hardcore rave and jungle. "Can't beat the system, go with the flow" - source of the famous sample as …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 418 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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    The Pathos of Obsolete Reference Books
    The library at the academic institute where I work part-time recently had a massive chuck-out. Scanning the tomes strewn across the tables, I was struck by the high proportion of reference books - encyclopedias, dictionaries, …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 1,022 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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    do the hokey cokey (hell / heaven)
    Of the three, Arthur Brown is perhaps the least hokeyIt must have been genuinely alarming for parents and middle-of-the-roaders to see this witch-doctor prancing in the Top of the Pop studio, fringed with flames. Taunting …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 258 words

  6. PANTHEON
    By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Paul Morley - Nick Heyward - North of A Miracle - NME - October 22 1983
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 17 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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    rehaunted graffiti (the hypnagogic revival)
    Even before I heard a note of the Cindy Lee album, the aroma I'd picked up was that it was like a flashback to the late 2000s - the peak of hipster vintage aesthetics and …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 1,779 words

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

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    Mash-upmanship ("lameness on the horizon")
    LAMENESS ON THE HORIZON(from 2001, Unfaves, off the old website A White Brit Rave Aesthete Thinks Aloud)I was enjoying the Avalanches show at SOBs, NYC, late 2001: not the full band playing live, but the …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 1,030 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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    Oh, Geneva
    Huysmans and HerLiquid SkyjuiceVince Noir's twisted sisterRomo's RomoTuxedomoonstruckDrunk on DuchampagneNina HagendaazMaldororableFischerspoonerismsMore maximalist thriftstore glam faves An old favorite An interviewBreadown of influences
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 22 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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    2024-04-22 00:08
    “Writing aloud is not expressive; it leaves expression to the pheno-text, to the regular code of communication; it belongs to the geno-text, to significance; it is caried not by dramatic inflections, subtle stresses, sympathetic accents, …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 282 words