Who Were The Best Artists of 2020?
Our cranky friend offers his review of the year in music
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Wire
All You Need to Know About Van Halen by Someone Who Was an Actual Teenager in the 1970s
A remembrance of the era that gave us Eddie Van Halen from someone on the ground during their ascension to superstardom
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The Soft Boys: This Was Us
Underwater Moonlight offers the mentally unbalanced view of love
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On 10:20, The Wire Miracle Continues
The English post-punk institution continues its latest hot streak with LP no. 18
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Oh How Their Favours Change: Elastica at 25
if you were around to enjoy it’s streamlined pleasures, Elastica was actually a fairly important album in 1995
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ALBUMS: Inside Wire’s Hive
43 years after its debut, Mind Hive proves this British punk institution is still making flawless records
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Like A Glove: The Convergence of Wire and Mike Watt
Fitted represents a perfect meeting of musical minds
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THE BEST REISSUES OF 2019: The Damned Finally Get the Greatest Hits Album They Deserve
A celebration of the Captain and Co.’s essential two-disc anthology Black Is The Night
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The Eternal Moonshine of Post Punk Music
Thanks to Moscow’s ГШ, 1979 has never sounded so good
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‘The 70s Album We Enjoyed the Most Making’
We mark the 40th Anniversary of Wire’s Chairs Missing with a lot of adjectives from Tim and insightful comments from Colin Newman
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Anal C*nt and the Power of Microsong
We are not here to comment on the ludicrous manner of a musician’s mortal defenestration. However, I will note that after Anal C-nt guitarist Josh Martin died while horsing around on an escalator, I spent a lot of time thinking about this ridiculous, obscene, beer fart in a car crash of a band. Like President James Buchanan or The Danny Thomas Show, Anal C-nt is a lot more important than
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