
“Cheap Turd”: the mysterious charm of Valet Girls (1987).Petty Obsession: Hair Metal you never hear in the movies.Once Upon a Time in Argentina: Swords & Sorcery, 1980s style.The Story of an Artist Daniel Johnston covered.Independence as a State of Mind: the Bosque Records story (1988-2001).Constructive Misanthropy: Wyndham Lewis – Tyros & Portraits.Woman Power! Ms Marvel & 1970s ‘Farrah Fawcett Feminism’.The Lucky Ones Were The First To Die! The 1980s post-Mad Max Apocalypse.La Flamme et le Lys: Métal Noir Québécois.Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside) – “shoegaze” 1988 – 1993.
Inevitably, the releases of the year, 2015 (part one).Inevitably, the releases of the year 2015 (part two).Inevitably, the releases of the year 2015 (part three).Inevitably, the releases of the year 2015 (part four).Inevitably, the releases of the year 2015 (grand finale!).
WAIT! Best releases of 2015 those glaring omissions in full*. Copy? Compliment? Coincidence? Incestuous album covers!. A Cure for Culture: Die Brücke at Moritzburg. Play For Today – current playlist 27 October 2016. Play For Today – Current Playlist 25th November 2016. Play For Today – Current Playlist 3rd January 2017. Play For Today – Current Playlist 8th February 2017.
Play For Today – Current Playlist 26th June 2017. Play For Today: special summer bonanza edition Part One. The Slinky Vagabond: David Bowie 1947-2016. An Illuminated Eccentric the art of Christophe Szpajdel. The Second Monthly Report: February 2016. All the stuff and more why bands should split up and never, ever reform. Tea-table Books 1: Dust & Grooves by Eilon Paz. REAL-TIME REVIEWS: YAADON KE BAARAAT (1973). No hierarchy In the world of sounds: Kib Elektra interview. Not JUST a genius: the Eternal Fire of Jimi Hendrix. Symphonies of Sadness, Dirges of Disgust, Noxious Noise: Musical Masochism. Difficult, But Fascinating: The Gail Carriger interview. Ride On A Golden Wave: Uriah Heep’s …Very ‘Eavy …Very ‘Umble. Album Review – Kristin Hersh – Wyatt at the Coyote Palace. Weekly Update: Halloween Horror – Outsider Music & Venusian Death Cell. Releases of the Year 2016! Preliminary note…. You Were In My Dreams – Kristin Hersh at Summerhall, November 17, 2016. Inevitably, the releases of the year, 2016 (Part One). Inevitably, the releases of the year, 2016 (Part Two). Inevitably, the releases of the year, 2016 (Part Three). Inevitably, the releases of the year, 2016 (grand finale!). A Reading of Orwell (and others) in 2017. MEAM, Myself & I: Part One: the formative years. Belated weekly update: If You Want To Feel…. Someone Of No Importance: Evelyn Waugh and inter-war Futilitarianism. Good – a rambling digression about the arts “Turmoil, Ecstasy, Violence and Isolation” – a conversation with Wreche. Inevitably, the releases of the year 2017 (part one). Inevitably, the Releases of the Year 2017 (part two). Review of the Year – the paradox of realism. The Vanishing Everything of Everywhere Goodbye 2017. It’s not real if you don’t feel it – but what is ‘it’ and what is ‘real’ and who’s to say?. 11 June 1936: The International Surrealist Exhibition. A continuous chain of little inventions art in Edinburgh summer 2018. ‘Cheryl Heard A Wet Thud’: Tread Softly by Richard Laymon. Inevitably, the releases of the year, 2018. a true state – cut and paste and the art of collage (Edinburgh, summer 2019). Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere notes on the margins of everywhere. You Shouldn’t Always Get What You Want cautionary tales of the 80s by Stephen King & Ramsey Campbell. how it felt to be alive in February 2020. the crossroads of hamburgers & boys: Bowie and Diamond Dogs (and Glenn Hendler’s “Diamond Dogs”. “Ane doolie sessoun” covid-19 and the art of isolation. yesterday was crazy D’Angelo’s Voodoo by Faith A. chosen ones and dark lords and everything in between. courbet’s birthday – the case for conscious iconoclasm. time for a change the death of a decade. Ear worm jazz song tv#
the television will not be revolutionised Stranger Things, Dark and blockbuster TV. sleepwalking through geography – doodling and the automatic muse. dancing about architecture: the non-art and non-science of music reviews. the law won – police academy and 80s pop culture. shooting the messenger moral panics, the 1980s, American Psycho turns 30. cycle woods and fields and little rivers. forget my fate: the art of violence & martyrdom. chocolate eggs & bunnies & blood: happy Easter!.