Category Archives: New Wave Blind Spots

Serendipitous Synthpop: Discovering Neeva 42 Years Too Late

Posted on January 27, 2025 by postpunkmonk

I love it when these sort of things happen. My last post on PPM was a look at Grace Jones, and at a certain point I needed to find out data about the “Hurricane” album. So I went to Discogs … Continue reading →

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Modern English Maintain The Standards Of Post-Punk Admirably With “1 2 3 4”

Posted on July 24, 2024 by postpunkmonk

I have a shameful past concerning Modern English. For a band that is such a strong element of the foundation of Post-Punk and New Wave I have never had one of their albums! It’s not that I disliked what I … Continue reading →

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Record Signing Road Trip: Modern English @ Schoolkids Records – Raleigh

Posted on July 23, 2024 by postpunkmonk

So the weekend before last was the Totally Tubular Festival in Raleigh. Great fun, but one of the nicest features of the weekend was finally meeting up with Todd Lewis of Fluid Japan. We had the day after the show … Continue reading →

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The Totally Tubular Festival Came To Raleigh – We Came, We Saw, It Conquered [pt. 4]

Posted on July 18, 2024 by postpunkmonk

[…Continued from last post] MODERN ENGLISH Modern English played next after a short break as the harsh summer sun was finally receding behind the trees on the horizon. One of Raleigh’s best attributes were the numerous trees downtown which were … Continue reading →

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Furniture’s “The Wrong People” DLX RM Paints A Picture Of A Band Destined To Not Fit Into This Fallen World [part 2]

Posted on May 31, 2024 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] The high melodrama of “She Gets Out The Scrapbook” was a tour de force of songwriting and lyric, that gave us a glimpse of High Pulp years before the band themselves were capable of rising to … Continue reading →

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Furniture’s “The Wrong People” DLX RM Paints A Picture Of A Band Destined To Not Fit Into This Fallen World [part 1]

Posted on May 30, 2024 by postpunkmonk

Furniture: The Wrong People – UK – CD [2010] There are occasions where a reader of PPM might inquire as to whether I’ve heard a particular album and being only human, there are a lot of stimuli that manage to … Continue reading →

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Record Shopping Road Trip: Akron Ohio – 2023 – The Bomb Shelter

Posted on March 7, 2023 by postpunkmonk

During in the last week of February, we actually traveled to Akron, Ohio to visit family. We had not been there [or really, anywhere] since the pandemic but with 91-year old in-laws, no longer making the yearly pilgrimage to Florida … Continue reading →

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