Tag Archives: 2015

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

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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REDUX: REVO Remastering: Jacqui Brookes – Sob Stories [REVO 074] [part 1]

December 4, 2015 Jacqui Brookes: Sob Stories 2xCD-R [2015] Disc 1 – The Album Lost Without Your Love The One That Got Away The Cold Light Of Day Another Place For A Dreamer Trains, And Boats, And Planes Haunted Cocktails Just … Continue reading

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REDUX: A Visage Post Script With Logan Sky and Steven Jones

November 20, 2015 With Visage now concluded, where does that leave us, the fans? There was a lot of talent stirred into Team Visage, and their keyboardist Logan Sky has many irons in the fire that offer ways forward now that the … Continue reading

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Rock G.P.A.: The Blow Monkeys [part 30]

[…continued from last post] Following a burst of glorious backing vocals singing the refrain “now the sun is in the sky again” I think I heard, yes!… a mellotron! This was immediately shaping up to be a stunner of a … Continue reading

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Rock G.P.A.: The Blow Monkeys [part 29]

[…continued from last post] I missed this album in its three month crowdfunding phase in 2014. “No problem,” I thought to myself. I’ll just grab it later. Later became seven long years where copies of this for sale even in … Continue reading

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Rock G.P.A.: The Blow Monkeys [part 28]

[…continued from last post] “Feels Like A New Morning” was barely cooled off from manufacturing when one of the most thorough Blow Monkeys compilations ever was the first one to be issued now that the band was back in the … Continue reading

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The Golden Era Of Tower Records Revisited In “All Things Must Pass” Documentary

I had probably heard about the making of this film, by Colin Hanks [scion of Tom] a few years back and my wife came to mention it to me recently as she was buying films on DVD for the library … Continue reading

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