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Deconstructing Record Store Day 2024
Wait, what’s that low rumble I hear in the distance? Could it be the throngs of music geeks converging to queue for their favorite holiday, now it its 17th year? Ooof! That makes me feel even older to think that … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Live Music, Want List, Wilson Never Sleeps
Tagged 2024, Bernie Worrell, Fun Boy Three, OMD, Record Store Day, Sparks, Talking Heads, The Beat, Ultravox
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RSD Black Friday Brings Intrigue This Year
Readers who pore over the comments will already have seen negative1ne mentioning releases coming up on November 24th for Record Store Day’s slightly less showy cousin, RSD Black Friday. While RSD in April has the world at its feet, Black … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, New Romantic, Scots Rock, Want List
Tagged 2023, David J, INXS, Record Store Day, Sparks, The Beat, Ultravox
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Want List: Sparks Release DLX RMs Of Their Dazzling 21st Century Canon
We just got the email from the Sparks mailing list today with the great news that the first three of Sparks 21st Century reissue program has begun today with the first three of the seven titles out today with well … Continue reading
An Interview With Gleaming Spires’ David Kendrick [part 2]
Today we finish up with the interview with Gleaming Spires’ David Kendrick. Touching on the late history of that band as well as the group’s concurrent existence as Sparks live and studio band for the first half of the 80s. … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Interview
Tagged 1985, 1988, David Kendrick, DEVO, Gleaming Spires, Sparks
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Want List: Collecting The Sparks Techno Pop Periphery – #2 Gleaming Spires
Hilly Michaels was cut adrift when Sparks went to Europe to record two albums with Giorgio Moroder without a band. After their 1979/1980 releases, Sparks decided they wanted a band again, so they came back to The States and found … Continue reading
Posted in New Wave Compilations, Record Review, Want List
Tagged 1980, Bates Motel, David Kendrick, False New Wave, Gleaming Spires, Sparks
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Record Review: Noel – “Dancing Is Dangerous” US 7″
Noel: Dancing Is Dangerous – US- 7″ [1979] Dancing is Dangerous [7″ edit] 3:42 The Night They Invented Love [7″ edit] 3:45 With Sparks dominating my listening since seeing “The Sparks Brothers” documentary the weekend before last, i have now … Continue reading