Added on February 9, 2015
Lee Adcock
2015 , Cocteau Twins , Kraftwerk , Le Thug , Lee Adcock , Reviews , Sisters of Mercy , Slowdive , The Police
Quick. Hold me tight. The artificial fog drifts closer. Now here’s a little-known tangent about me – before I succumbed to the drain-drip bloodbath underworld of what the rest of the Western world calls “industrial”, the closest tune to rain-soaked, smokestack factories that I knew was the Police’s “Invisible Sun”. It sounded like the blackest […]
Added on October 30, 2014
Lee Adcock
album review , Creedence Clearwater Revival , Fad Gadget , Foxygen , Kraftwerk , Kylie Minogue , Lee Adcock , Miley Cyrus , The Bastards of Fate , The Beatles , The Flaming Lips
I had a good intro here. A fucking good one, too. But then it vanished. So fuck it. The title says it all, anyway. ET asked, and so I answered: 1. Because, quite frankly, everyone’s still catching up to the Bastards of Fate. 2. Because their Stone Roses cover album [link] actually DID trump the […]
Added on July 30, 2014
Lee Adcock
Kraftwerk , Lee Adcock , Plastikman , Tangerine Dream , techno , The Man Machine
You know what? I’m-a gonna lift this straight out of the press release. Plastikman, aka Richie Hawtin recorded “EX” at the Guggenheim, New York’s iconic art museum. This very special performance was at the invitation of influential Belgium fashion designer and artistic director at Dior, Raf Simons, for the Guggenheim’s annual fundraiser, performed around a […]
Added on September 11, 2013
Wallace Wylie
2012 , Aerosmith , Aretha Franklin , Austra , Bad Brains , Billy Joel , Boards of Canada , Bob Seger , Burial , Celine Dion , Chromatics , Destroyer , Dire Straits , Dirty Projectors , disco , Elliott Smith , Eric Clapton , Feature , Flying Lotus , Foreigner , Frank Ocean , Funkadelic , Garth Brooks , james blake , John Grant , Jon Hopkins , Journey , Julia Holter , Justin Timberlake , Kanye West , King Krule , KISS , Kraftwerk , Laurel Halo , Madonna , Matthew Dear , Metallica , Michael Jackson , Motley Crue , Mount Kimbie , Nico , Nirvana , Prince , Public Enemy , Richard Youngs , Sonic Youth , The Beatles , the eagles , The Raincoats , The Scorpions , The Slits , The Small Faces , The Velvet Underground , The Weeknd , THEESatisfaction , Throwing Muses , Thundercat , Twin Shadow , Van Halen , Wallace Wylie , X-Ray Spex
The real problem that the industry is dealing with these days is the lack of cultural importance given to popular music and the fact that popular music no longer has the same unifying power as it used to.
Added on December 7, 2012
Everett True
Aretha Franklin , Christian fundamentalists , Everett True , Kraftwerk , North Korean children , Richard Dawkins , X-tReMe PoWeR
I’m sure it’s not deliberate, but the band’s name doesn’t half sound like White Power.
Added on November 26, 2012
Scott Creney
Actress , Alvin Lucier , Aphex Twin , Bob Dylan , Brian Eno , Holly Herndon , John Lennon , Kraftwerk , Scott Creney
Movement is an auditory feast. It’s no Bob Dylan but then John Lennon was no Kraftwerk, you know what I mean?
Added on September 29, 2011
Princess Stomper
Bush , Einstürzende Neubauten , Fad Gadget , Faderhead , Front 242 , Front Line Assembly , Frontline Assembly , Gravity Kills , industrial music , Kraftwerk , Laibach , Ministry , NIN , Nine Inch Nails , Princess Stomper , Skinny Puppy , Smashing Pumpkins , Throbbing Gristle , VNV Nation
If punk was a roar of rage, industrial music was a scream of terror.
Added on September 10, 2011
Scott Creney
101 Things To Do In Bongolia , Amazing Ghost , Bio Ritmo , Brooklyn Chimp , Can , Debo Band , Electric Cowbell , Greg Ginn , Kraftwerk , Kylie Minogue , Los Riberenos , Scott Creney , Superhuman Happiness , TV On The Radio
You won’t hear this many different musical ideas on an album all year.
Added on July 25, 2011
Scott Creney
album review , Birthday Party , Cherry Red , Chrome , Kraftwerk , Music criticism , Plastic Surgery , Red Exposure , Scott Creney , Suicide , Swell Maps , Tearist
You can almost lick the penguins.
Added on July 14, 2011
Everett True
album review , baggy , Britpop , Can , Chapterhouse , Coldplay , criticism , Echo & The Bunnymen , Everett True , Kings Of Leon , Kraftwerk , Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark , Pink Floyd , Psychedelic Furs , Pulp , Ride , Simple Minds , Skying , Suede , Swervedriver , Syd Barrett , Tears For Fears , The Blue Nile , The Chameleons , The Horrors , The Stone Roses , U2 , XL
‘Endless Blue’ is Chapterhouse bad. Let’s not say any more about it.
