Young Marble Giants

Alternative Rock Hard Rock Rock 

The Most Cake: Revisiting Hole’s Live Through This

April 13, 2024April 13, 2024 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1994, 30th Anniversary, Asking For It, Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, Geffen Records, Hole, Kristin Pfaff, Kurt Cobain, Live Through This, Miss World, Nirvana, Patty Schemel, Pretty on the Inside, Violet, Young Marble Giants

Looking back on 30 years of the band’s monumental second album

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Electronics Hip Hop 

Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ Is a Triumph of Hip-Hop Beatmaking, With a Little Help from Four Tet

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Justin Joffe 0 Comments 2021, Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, Lyn Collins, Madlib, Madlib Invazion, Otis Jackson Jr, Sound Ancestors, Young Marble Giants

What the samples chosen for Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ teach us about his genre-bending, boom-bap brilliance

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Post-Punk 

Forty Years Ago, Young Marble Giants Exploded A Graceful Bomb Over Manhattan

December 2, 2020December 3, 2020 Tim Sommer 1 Comment 1980, Allison Statton, Colossal Youth, Hurrah, New York City, Philip Moxham, Stuart Moxham, Tim Sommer, Young Marble Giants

Tim Sommer recalls a show that changed his life

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Experimental Pop Post-Punk 

Credit In The Straight World: Colossal Youth at 40

February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 Jeremy Shatan 1 Comment 1980, Allison Statton, Colossal Youth, Courtney Love, Credit In The Straght World, Hole, Philip Moxham, Rough Trade, Stuart Moxham, Young Marble Giants

In 1980, Young Marble Giants stripped post-punk down to its minimalist core

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Post-Punk 

The Eternal Moonshine of Post Punk Music

September 4, 2019September 5, 2019 Tim Sommer 1 Comment Beatles, Glintshake, Holger Gzukay, Johnny Thunders, Joy Division, Krautrock, Love Will Tear us Apart Again, Pet Sounds, PiL, Post-Punk, Public Image, The Cure, Wire, Young Marble Giants, ГШ

Thanks to Moscow’s ГШ, 1979 has never sounded so good

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