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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.
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anti-theatricality + politics (the finale?) A wise person once said: “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” Donald Trump is a clown. Let’s prevent the presidency from becoming his circus.- …
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ReynoldsRetro
"there are immaturities, but there are immensities" - Bright Star (dir. Jane Campion).
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RIP Shel Talmy One of the odd things about the social media era is becoming "friends" with musical legends and cult figures that you've never met. Musicians you've interviewed and interacted with in real life - that's one …
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Thinkige Kru 2
successor to Thinkige Kru … vintage thoughts from others, vintage thoughts from me - varying degrees of profundity.
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2024-11-22 22:43 The pinnacle of that view of freedom, of course, is avant-garde jazz, which I find by and large a dead loss. It operates on the assumption that if you remove all constraints from people, they …
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Dreams, Built By Hand
Animation of the Analogue Era - Cel, Cut Out, Stop Motion, Puppet, Pixilation, Cameraless, Sand, Pinscreen... Plus Experimental Films + TV.
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RIP Lillian F. Schwartz (1927 - 2024) "Resident artist and consultant at Bell Laboratories (New Jersey).... during the 70s and 80s Schwartz developed a catalogue of visionary techniques for the use of the computer system by artists. Her formal explorations in abstract …
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RETROMANIA
"this person's not had enough of useless memories" - John Lydon, possibly misheard.
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
haunty ha-ha, haunty peculiar Sometime ago, Vic Reeves posted this on Twitter - if I remember right, it's artwork for a tour poster that was never used. Immediately I flashed on Martin Parr's Boring Postcards book.And then I thought …
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PANTHEON
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Garry Bushell - Gang of Four - Entertainment! - Sounds - October 6 1979 Not quite an example of critics totally missing the significance of an epochal record in real time, as this does get a measured 3 and a half stars out of five from Gaz, with Entertainment! …
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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 infoUpdated
RIP J. Saul Kane Well, it had to be this one I posted, didn't it? That macabre sing-song sample - "did you ever think / when the hearse goes by / that some day you are going to die?"Also …
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FAVES / UNFAVES
CHEESY WOTSITS.
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
50 Favorite Songs (for an Italian publication, 2009) The Eyes -- "When the Night Falls" The Beatles -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" John's Children -- "A Midsummer Night's Scene" We The People -- "You Burn Me Up and Down" …
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Hardly Baked 2 - my drivel blog
replacing Hardly Baked … "Really awful is more interesting to listen to than pretty good" - Eno.
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New Wavest (#3 of ??) Clock DVA - a name one associates with industrial music. Well, they were actually on Industrial Records, weren't they? Put out a cassette via them, White Souls in Black Suits. Then Clock DVA were on …
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Found Objects
Hauntological dumping ground.
By Keith Seatman, Simon Reynolds, et al. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
P for Paladin Paladin - second only to Picador as a publisher's name to set the arty-intellectual bibliophile's heart a flutter... Radical, countercultural, polemical, esoteric, transgressive, avant-garde, youth culture ... a feast for the hungry young mind, portions …
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blissblog
By Simon Reynolds. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Dream on Last week, I found it very hard to get down to the work I was supposed to be doing. Writing about music felt trivial, absurd. That feeling has passed - for now at least. Not …
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The Levellers
By Dan Q, John Trevor-Allen, Simon Gilbert-Hague, Alec Richardson, Matt Payne, Matt Reynolds. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
77. The Machine Stops [Taken From Tunwéya‘s notebooks:] The time we spent in the Modron outpost has proven extremely valuable, and – while I still need to review some of the information provided by The Historian in order to …