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Ah well that is a funny one, because "New Musick" was the title of a two-part feature package in Sounds at the end of 1977, across two issues / two weeks, and involving Jon Savage, Vivien Goldman, Sandy Robertson, etc writing about all kinds of new directions coming out of punk (Banshees...

Actually they were thick as thieves, the Leitchs and the Ryders "Oriole is the youngest daughter of Donovan, who enjoyed a string of sixties hits with songs like Mellow Yellow, Jennifer Juniper and Hurdy Gurdy Man. She met Shaun after her father supported the Happy Mondays in the early 1990s...

I had this half-memory that Ione Skye had hung out with the Mondays, or dated one of them. But turns out it was another Donovan daughter https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music/unhappy-mondays-1147959

I remember that Donovan suddenly became hip in 1989-90 or so - Butthole Surfers covered "Hurdy Gurdy Man" and Happy Mondays started going on about him Actually they went as far as doing a song named in tribute to him But it was a passing thing, no doubt related to the enormous quantities of...

That said, "The Elders" and "River People" are the only two tunes on Mr Gone I ever feel like playing.

there are albums that are underrated because hardly anyone knows they exist - perhaps those are more like "non-rated", as most don't have an opinion one way or the other underrated could also apply to an artist that is generally rated, even feted, but puts out something considered by those who...

Contortions are probably the closest parallel to PiL - utterly grim nihilistic lyrics and a combo of people who could really really play (James Chance himself, the drummer) and complete novices (Pat Place, Adele Bertei) inventing their own techniques. (PiL had Levene the Yes fan versus Wobble...

I would characterise Ian Dury / Madness / The Police as New Wave rather than postpunk - a blurry distinction admittedly - but New Wave is exactly as Barty characterizes it, an affirmation of ordinary life and everyday people (so an indirect line to Sly Stone and black music). And it's much more...

apart from the title track, I think this is the one true killer on Flowers of Romance supposedly inspired by an encounter with a ghost

this one always reminds me of the music in Gregory's Girl the titles are evocative - "Out Past Curfew" - could be parental interdictions, but in America just as likely to be local statutes that forbid teenagers to be outdoors after a certain hour...

coming from a similarly dazed and diffused sort of place to Meat Puppets, and again, rated, in certain quarters, not widely enough, not highly enough

Keeping it Kirk(woods), Meat Puppets second and third albums are rated, in quarters, but insufficiently The interplay between the brothers here, the bass and the guitar The drummer is fine but where could they gone if they'd had a Mitch Mitchell level third axis to the triangle, something...

can't for the life of me remember if I ever did listen to Sweet Exorcist's after-their-moment's-passed Proper Album Finally - Spirit Guide to Low Tech

talking R.H. Kirk post / outside Cabs, another underrated effort is this - now it says EP on the vinyl label in the video below, but I have this here CD - C.C.C.D, cute - and it feels more like an LP - 7 tracks this track is "headphone bleep"

yeah i have wondered whether these multi-aliased producers actually have designated vibes to each identity. With Aphex Twin, the characteristics of certain identities seems to be "this is pretty throwaway, bashed-out stuff, strictly for the obsessives" i suppose George Clinton kind of invented...

it's a way of flooding the market, without it seeming like you're flooding the market. when you're on a hot streak and got too much good stuff to release. when you want put out something new, but your latest track is still getting play and you don't want to step on it. and for a lot of small...

it's a very common name that's probably the Digital Spy Simon Reynolds, who writes about movies and occasionally very mainstream pop stars my favorite namesake is the SR who is the UK's leading showjumping commentator (has very trenchant opinions, seemingly) and then there is Simon Reynolds...

this mix of Raw Silk, which I could swear was the one that they did on Top of the Pops

also on the same side of Enforcers 4, another alter ego - alter-(D)ego haha gaseous one for the headz i think the female voice is the phased vocal from the start of Raw Silk "Do It to the Music" with the phase effect doubled by being reversed