Tag Archives: 1979

Simple Minds Superfans Can Invest In A New Gold Dream: Songwriting + Sound Recording Royalties For 1977-1981 Material Now Up For Sale

Posted on April 25, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Last week I got a eye-popping email from my old buddy JT. As a person with a career in the music industry as a musician and engineer, he keeps an eye peeled on the horizon for things which can evade … Continue reading →

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REVO Remastering: The Invaders – “Test Card + Singles” [REVO 106]

Posted on April 24, 2023 by postpunkmonk

It was 1980 when I first encountered the Polydor US compilation “Made In Britain.” It was a sampler with four bands: Protex, Excel, The Comsat Angels, and The Invaders. I loved that record from day one, but it was not … Continue reading →

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Model Citizens “NYC 1978-1979” A Vibrant Blast Of No Wave Skirting The Edges of Pop

Posted on April 5, 2023 by postpunkmonk

We’ve mentioned Model Citizens’ upcoming re-issue of their John Cale produced EP from 1979 along with live sets to flesh out a full album; giving us a glimpse of their other material, to be released by Modern Harmonic this Friday, … Continue reading →

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Want List: Model Citizens Comprehensive Reissue Coming To LP + CD

Posted on March 6, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Not long ago we were discussing the comprehensive reissue program that the label Modern Harmonic had lavished on NYC band The Dance, when the lead singer, Eugenie Diserio, left a welcome comment stating that the precursor band she sang in … Continue reading →

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Landscape Are Preparing Comprehensive Boxed Set Of God With “Landscape-A-Go-Go”

Posted on January 19, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Last week I received an email from commenter Richard Anvil who managed to strike gold in his internet travels. We share many music obsessions and the great Technopop band Landscape was among them. He ran across a current Landscape website … Continue reading →

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Those First Impressions: Yello – “I.T. Splash” Yellow Vinyl 12″ Reissue

Posted on January 10, 2023 by postpunkmonk

I’ve loved Yello since that fateful night in 1980 when I heard their debut Ralph Records single on WUSF-FM. They were a college radio station with a Friday night New Wave show that I could barely receive on my stereo, … Continue reading →

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Cherry Red Issuing New Musik 4xCD Box With All Three Albums + More

Posted on December 28, 2022 by postpunkmonk

We’ve always got time for New Musik; Tony Mansfield’s enormously appealing Technopop project that happened at just the right time in the ’79-’82 period, where analog synths were jostling up against new digital technologies like sampling to give him a … Continue reading →

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