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 Lee Adcock

Le Thug – Place Is EP (Song, By Toad)

Le Thug – Place Is EP (Song, By Toad)

Quick. Hold me tight. The artificial fog drifts closer. Now here’s a little-known tangent about me – before I succumbed to the drain-drip bloodbath underworld of what the rest of the Western world calls “industrial”, the closest tune to rain-soaked, smokestack factories that I knew was the Police’s “Invisible Sun”. It sounded like the blackest […]

 Lee Adcock

Lee Adcock’s Response to Everett True’s Response To The Flaming Lips – Why Can’t We Be Fwends?

Lee Adcock’s Response to Everett True’s Response To The Flaming Lips – Why Can’t We Be Fwends?

I had a good intro here. A fucking good one, too. But then it vanished. So fuck it. The title says it all, anyway. ET asked, and so I answered: 1. Because, quite frankly, everyone’s still catching up to the Bastards of Fate. 2. Because their Stone Roses cover album [link] actually DID trump the […]

 Lee Adcock

Plastikman – EX (Mute | Create/Control)

Plastikman – EX (Mute | Create/Control)

You know what? I’m-a gonna lift this straight out of the press release. Plastikman, aka Richie Hawtin recorded “EX” at the Guggenheim, New York’s iconic art museum. This very special performance was at the invitation of influential Belgium fashion designer and artistic director at Dior, Raf Simons, for the Guggenheim’s annual fundraiser, performed around a […]

 Wallace Wylie

The Quality of Music and The Conformity of Youth | Dwindling Album Sales Explained

The Quality of Music and The Conformity of Youth | Dwindling Album Sales Explained

The real problem that the industry is dealing with these days is the lack of cultural importance given to popular music and the fact that popular music no longer has the same unifying power as it used to.

 Everett True

Anti-Song of the Day – 1: X-tReMe PoWeR

I’m sure it’s not deliberate, but the band’s name doesn’t half sound like White Power.

 Scott Creney

Holly Herndon – Movement (RVNG Intl.)

Movement is an auditory feast. It’s no Bob Dylan but then John Lennon was no Kraftwerk, you know what I mean?

 Princess Stomper

The life and death of a genre

If punk was a roar of rage, industrial music was a scream of terror.

 Scott Creney

Various Artists – 101 Things To Do In Bongolia (Electric Cowbell)

You won’t hear this many different musical ideas on an album all year.

 Scott Creney

Chrome – Red Exposure (Cherry Red)

You can almost lick the penguins.

 Everett True

The Horrors – Skying (XL)

The Horrors – Skying (XL)

‘Endless Blue’ is Chapterhouse bad. Let’s not say any more about it.