For some reason they never seemed to attain the status that The Pixies did which I always thought was unfair though maybe understandable: the Pixies despite being fairly twisted by most standards were a more straight forwards proposition than Hersh\’s Read more…
Category: music
I usually start with a pre-amble of how I came to discover the band in question but I am fucked if I can remember how I discovered The The, suffice to say that I am glad I did. The above Read more…
If you are into music, and I mean good music (fuck that relativistic bullshit about personal taste and all that) then you will find your way to Tom Waits. Actually if you watch a fair amount of films you may Read more…
To say that Siouxsie Sioux is as cool as fuck seems as unnecessary as saying that grass is green. When I first heard Cities In Dust coming out of the speakers it was strangely on a Now That\’s What I Read more…
I\’ve loved everything that they have ever put out, but that first EP was the bollocks. Bang was the explosive creature you would expect it to be and has to be one of the best put-down songs ever recorded — Read more…
I got this album as part of a twofer tape that a friend did for me — the other side having Swervedriver on it. It was fucking great. There was this trip that we were on to the National Gallery Read more…
I fail to remember exactly what happened to this magazine — I think it was swallowed up by one of it\’s rivals — The NME if memory serves correctly. I know with these articles I should sit there on wiki Read more…
R.E.M. today premiered their new album on iLike and goddamn if it isn\’t fucking brilliant. I was, to put it mildly, underwhelmed by Around The Sun and I had stupidly expected to never be disappointed by one of their albums. Read more…
Once again you find weird routes to people — where did I find Polly Jean Harvey? A Canadian Music show they used to show on Anglia television at 2 in the morning. She was sitting in the window of a Read more…