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Bob Gaulke Still Maxing Out His Credit Cards – With Shriekback’s Help This Time On A Trio Of Releases [pt. 3]

[…continued from last post] Bob Gaulke: When Are These Not Difficult Times? – US – CD-R [2025] Bob Gaulke released a third disc concurrently with “(S)words” and “(detail)” last summer on June 6th. Like “(S)words,” it featured Hans [The Dutch] … Continue reading

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Bob Gaulke Still Maxing Out His Credit Cards – With Shriekback’s Help This Time On A Trio Of Releases [pt. 2]

[…continued from last post] Bob Gaulke: (S)words – US – CD-R [2025] “Our Tiny Struggle” began with the emphatic piano rhythm courtesy of Mr. Barry Andrews boring a hole in our brain that wouldn’t let go as Gil Olivera on … Continue reading

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Bob Gaulke Still Maxing Out His Credit Cards – With Shriekback’s Help This Time On A Trio Of Releases [pt. 1]

Bob Gaulke is an interesting guy! He’s a very busy musician with 34 releases in the last decade. Nine of those were released in 2022 alone! I happened to really get to know Bob on the occasion of his tribute … Continue reading

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

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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Dave Allen: 1955-2025

Not 48 hours ago I had the urge to hear Shriekback. Many of you reading this might very well say, “not very surprising, Monk.” And you’d be correct, but that evening I pulled a very specific disc to play: “The … Continue reading

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Monumental Words: Barry Andrews Of Shriekback Discusses Their New Album

We’ve been riding the Shriekback train for 42 years now, and my tour of duty with Barry Andrews himself dates back to the 1980 “League Of Gentlemen” for a 45 year run! While I’m open to interviewing anyone of interest … Continue reading

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Shriekback Return With A Monument For The Now [part 2]

A four-to-the-floor disco beat is not the typical Shriekback sonic garb but this was a case of the band making the best ironic dancefloor anthem since Pulp were administering CPR to Handbag. “Idiot Dancing” [hint: a clue] started out simmering … Continue reading

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