Post-Punk

Art Pop New Wave Post-Punk Remembrance 

New York Musicians Pay Homage To Dee Pop

October 14, 2021October 15, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Bush Tetras, CBGB, Cynthia Sley, Dee Pop, James Keepnews, Michael Imperioli, Mike Edison, Mike Pride, New York City, Pat Place, William Parker

Several friends and collaborators from the the city’s punk and jazz scenes took to social media to bid farewell to the influential Bush Tetras drummer

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Art Pop Experimental Indie Rock Noise Pop Post-Punk Rock Docs 

The Velvet Goldmine of Todd Haynes

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments 2021, Apple TV+, documentary, John Cale, Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, Sterling Morrison, The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes

The acclaimed director talks with Rock & Roll Globe about his upcoming Velvet Underground documentary premiering on Apple TV+

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New Wave Post-Punk Remembrance 

Delta 5 Singer Julz Sale Dies In Thailand

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 Deborah Sprague 0 Comments Apple+, Delta 5, England, Gang of Four, iPhone, Julz Sale, Kill Rock Stars, Leeds, Mind Your Own Business, Post-Punk, RIP, The Mekons

Alongside the Mekons and Gang of Four, she was a key figure in the famed Leeds post-punk movement

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Alternative Rock Hard Rock Indie Rock Noise Pop Post-Hardcore Post-Punk Power Pop Punk Rock 

Oh Well, Whatever: ‘Nevermind’ at 30

September 23, 2021September 29, 2021 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1991, Breed, Dave Grohl, DGC, Garth Brooks, Geffen, In Bloom, Krist Noveselic, Kurt Cobain, Mariah Carey, MC Hammer, Nevermind, Nirvana, On a Plain, Polly, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Territorial Pissings

The breakout success of the second Nirvana album was both a gift and a curse for Kurt Cobain

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Art Pop Electronic Experimental Post-Punk 

ALBUMS: Immersion Surrenders to Beauty, and Achieves Transcendence 

September 22, 2021September 23, 2021 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2021, Colin Newman, Dennis Wilson, Immersion, Krautrock, Laetitia Sadier, Malka Spigel, Nanocluster, Nanocluster Vol. 1, Pet Sounds, Robin Rimbaud, Ronald Lippok and Bernd Jestram, Scanner, Stereolab, Swim, Tarwater, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The White Album, Ulrich Schnauss, Wire

With the help of such collaborators as Laetitia Sadier, Ulrich Schnauss, Tarwater and Scanner, Nanolcuster Vol. 1 is so beautiful, exotic, immediate and compelling as to defy description

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New Wave Post-Punk 

Ian Curtis and the Emotion of Joy Division

July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Bernard Sumner, Closer, Gillian Gilbert, Ian Curtis, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart, New Order, Stephen Morris, Unknown Pleasures

Reminiscing about the enigmatic frontman on what would have been his 65th birthday

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Post-Punk Rock 

Cat Popper Breathes New Life Into A Pere Ubu Classic

July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Cat Popper, Catherine Popper, Jack White, Jesse Malin, Levon Helm, Norah Jones, Pere Ubu, Puss N Boots, Ryan Adams, Sasha Dobson, Willie Nelson

Hanging out in the salt marshes of New York City with the bassist extraordinaire

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Art Pop Indie Rock Post-Punk 

‘You Left The Street Thinking You’d Listen To A Record’: 25 Years Of The Raincoats’ Looking in the Shadows

June 15, 2021June 20, 2021 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 1996, Ana de Silva, Ari Up, DGC, Gina Birch, Ian Curtis, Looking in the Shadows, Mark E. Smith, Martin Hannett, Palmolive, The Raincoats, Tony Wilson

With endorsements from Kim Gordon and Kurt Cobain, the UK art punk legends landed on Geffen Records for their underrrated fourth LP

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Indie Rock Post-Punk Punk 

ALBUMS: Sleater-Kinney’s Path of Least Resistance

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 Jason Thurston 0 Comments Kill Rock Stars, Mom + Pop Records, Path of Wellness, Portlandia, SLEATER-KINNEY, Sub Pop Records, The Center Won't Hold

On their first album without Janet Weiss, Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein rebuild their center on an impressive new album

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Post-Punk Punk 

The Wire Miracle Continues with PF456 Deluxe

June 11, 2021June 11, 2021 Tim Sommer 3 Comments 2021, Bruce Gilbert, Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, PF456 Deluxe, Pink Flag, Post-Punk, Wire

This anticipated Record Store Day exclusive is the UK punk icons’ most feral and creative release

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Indie Rock Post-Punk 

The Dream Songs of Tim Foljahn

June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Brad Cohan 0 Comments Chris Brokaw, I Dreamed A Dream, Male Slut, Smokey Hormel, Sonic Youth, Spastic Rhythm Tarts, The Crucifucks, Thurston Moore, Tim Foljahn, Two Dollar Guitar

From his hardcore days, Two Dollar Guitar, Male Slut and Psychic Hearts with Thurston Moore to I Dreamed A Dream, the Hoboken lifer trudges onward   

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Post-Punk Progressive Rock 

ALBUMS: The Mars Volta Throws A Tantrum

May 27, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Cedric Bixler-Zavala, De-Loused In The Comatorium, Ikey Owens, Jeremy Ward, Landscape Tantrums, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, The Mars Volta, Yes

These unfinished original versions of material from De-Loused In The Comatorium is a prime example of the band’s initial energy

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Indie Rock New Wave Post-Punk 

ALBUMS: Exceptional Dry Cleaning Service

May 24, 2021 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 16 Lovers Lane, 4AD, Dry Cleaning, English Settlement, Fables of the Reconstruction, John Lydon, New Long Leg, Phoebe Waller Bridge, R.E.M., Radiohead, The Bends, The Go-Betweens, The Queen is Dead, The Suburbs, Wire, XTC

Believe the hype about New Long Leg, the debut album by this young and profoundly distinctive South London quartet

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Drive It In Between: Nightclubbing at 40

May 19, 2021May 19, 2021 Steve Holtje 0 Comments 1981, 40th Anniversary, Alex Sadkin, Barry Reynolds, Chris Blackwell, David Bowie, Demolition Man, Grace Jones, Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull, Nightclubbing, Pull Up To The Bumper

Grace Jones’ fifth album is “The Empire Strikes Back” of her Compass Point Trilogy

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New Wave Post-Punk 

The Art of Arson: The Birthday Party’s Prayers on Fire at 40

May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 Jim Allen 0 Comments Anita Lane, Mick Harvey, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Phil Calvert, Prayers On Fire, Rowland S. Howard, The Birthday Party, Tracy Pew

Nick Cave’s incendiary introduction to the wider world

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