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  1. 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

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

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    Silverfish
    An interesting piece at the Quietus by Keith Kahn-Harris about Silverfish as a great lost band from a great lost mini-era.I remember them fondly as a band that was great onstage but never really caught …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 133 words

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

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    Great, Scott
    "The nineties were better than the eighties, and one key reason was that there was less originality. Originality is unmusical. The urge to do music is an admiring emulation of music one loves; the urge …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 862 words

  4. Dreams, Built By Hand
    Animation of the Analogue Era - Cel, Cut Out, Stop Motion, Puppet, Pixilation, Cameraless, Sand, Pinscreen... Plus Experimental Films + TV. By Simon Reynolds. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Oskar Schlemmer - Triadisches Ballett (1912 / 1922 / 1968)
    "... while still remembered as a Bauhaus designer, painter and teacher, Oskar Schlemmer’s contribution to dance gets little more than a passing reference. With one exception. His designs for his Triadic Ballet, which premiered at …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 1,021 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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    esto era mañana / música electrónica femenina
    These tunes appears in a playlist + commentary at The Wire of mind-bending works by Latin-American female electronic composers, among them Vânia Dantas Leite, Beatriz Ferreyra and Nelly Moretto .... the playlist is compilated and …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 438 words

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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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    2024-04-17 03:05
    - Lauren Oyler Getting savaged in reviews for her new collection No Judgment ( a freakily forensic going-over here - breaking down the Wiki sources, including Wiki footnotes, behind one essay).... still, Oyler's observation above, …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 102 words

  10. 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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    Assassinating Rydim (Back to the Phuture)
    Breaks 'n ' bleepsy biznessFrom a recent comp of very early Suburban Base / Boogies Times Record stuffLoved their tunes so long - but I've never once thought to look see who Phuture Assassins were …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 837 words

  11. PANTHEON
    By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Lester Bangs - The Punk Rock Machine - National Screw - November 1976
    How did this magazine come into my possession?When we lived in New York, in our East Village apartment block... there was this informal tradition of people leaving stuff out by the mailboxes - old books, …
    By SIMON REYNOLDS, 646 words

  12. The Levellers
    By Dan Q, John Trevor-Allen, Simon Gilbert-Hague, Alec Richardson, Matt Payne, Matt Reynolds. 🇬🇧 More info

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    73. Finger-Pointing
    Driving their damaged vehicle down from the plateau, Contra-Disward towards the banks of the Styx, the Levellers soon spotted what they’d been looking for. At the bottom of a steep incline, run aground on a …
    By Dan Q, 581 words