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Tour Shirts No Longer With Us [part 2]

On the cusp of a second culling I’m considering of the Tour Shirt collection, we’re looking at the shirts sold off during the first cull in 2007. A surprising number of these were of what I’d call core collection bands; … Continue reading

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Tour Shirts No Longer With Us [part 1]

Throughout my youth I had a tumultuous relationship with T-shirts. I occasionally wore them [never with printing] as a child in the 1970s. But as I grew older, I came to associate them with Physical Education class in secondary and … Continue reading

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EXTC On US Tour – “It Would Be A Shame To Miss This,” Muses Monk

I’ve been known to be a hardliner on the dreaded scourge of “tribute acts.” I’ve grown used to seeing the bulk of club and venue dates in my hometown become overrun by these tribute acts to the point where it … Continue reading

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New Wave Acts Start Making Scents

Last month, I was poking around on the Gary Numan website to dig into the upcoming “Berserker” DLX RM and I was viewing the merch and came across the funniest thing I’d seen in ages. It immediately went out on … Continue reading

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David Johansen Beset By Cancer And Broken Back, Now Has Medical Crowdfunder To Ease The Burden

I saw terrible news last night when it was revealed that singer/actor David Johansen was now having a medial crowdfunder that his daughter, Leah Hennessey, was administering in the hopes of easing the financial burdens that have leaned heavily on … Continue reading

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New Wave Newsflash: Most Mysterious Song On Internet Identified!

Wow. I got an email from synth player Logan Sky last weekend with weirdly stupendous news. Apparently the Most Mysterious Song On The Internet™ had finally been identified…after a stately seventeen year timespan! It was March 18, 2007 when a … Continue reading

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PPM Reader Ranking Of The Pet Shop Boys Studio Albums

When running the review of the latest Pet Shop Boys album in the last two posts, there was a lot of commenter input on the albums that I missed after 1993 . though I have the 2002, 2006, and 2024 … Continue reading

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