Category Archives: Live Music

When It Rains, It Pours…Shriekback Stock Merch Store To The Gills With New/Old Albums And …Shirts

Posted on August 19, 2025 by postpunkmonk

When we last reported on the new Shriekback album, “Monument” there was some confusion over the hows and whys of distribution. Like usual, the album was crowdsourced but this time, I never caught wind of this possibly due to natural … Continue reading →

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Simple Minds Exit Their Live Trilogy On A High Note With “Live In the City of Diamonds” [part 3]

Posted on May 16, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Following the never ending rendition of “Belfast Child,” the set list began its sprint towards the inevitable. Their three biggest selling singles would inevitably manifest, but they were shot through with some more thrills from the … Continue reading →

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Simple Minds Exit Their Live Trilogy On A High Note With “Live In the City of Diamonds” [part 2]

Posted on May 15, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] After the most perfect opening salvo to a Simple Minds live album ever, Where can anyone go but down? If Kerr’s “let me see your hands” in the song least likely to host such shenanigans was … Continue reading →

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Simple Minds Exit Their Live Trilogy On A High Note With “Live In the City of Diamonds” [part 1]

Posted on May 14, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Simple Minds: Live In The City Of Diamonds – Worldwide – 2xCD [2025] CD1 CD2 We put this on the want list when it was announced earlier this year and we made sure to pre-order so that it was posted … Continue reading →

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Pulp Provide “More” North American Tourdates And A Little Mojo Besides

Posted on April 23, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Was it really just a week ago when we posted on the miraculous second coming of Pulp? How a new album was recorded and ready and the tour was scraping around the globe, hitting strategic festivals and a few gigs … Continue reading →

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Just Cause For Joy: The Lene Lovich Band Has Released An Official Bootleg That We Can All Now Buy

Posted on April 22, 2025 by postpunkmonk

One of the few upsides I’ve noticed to the 21st century was the fact that PPM Heroine Lene Lovich [her image should be in every dictionary adjacent to the “New Wave” entry] had gotten back into the fray and was … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Simple Minds Live Album Has An Almost Perfect Setlist; This Fan Says “Huzzah!”

Posted on February 26, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Last Friday we got a surprise notice from the Simple Minds mothership that…stop the presses… a new Simple Minds live album was being prepped for release in April. Gloryoski! Simple Minds sure have a lot of live albums. Maybe not … Continue reading →

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