This spills over from yesterday's New Wave Wednesday, as well as dondeluxe's post about Love and Rockets.OK, I admit it, I loved this band in high school, wearing out my cassette of Discover. However, Gene Loves Jezebel's take on goth hasn't exactly aged well. On the contrary, it's aged worse than the bananas on my counter.Need proof? This is the video for their single "Suspicion" from their al...
Gene Love Jezebel are pretty tough to defend, I'll admit it. They started off as a Welsh post-punk band in the mid-80s, led by the enigmatic Astons, an androgynous pair of identical twin brothers. Finding a strange sonic middle-ground between Aerosmith and Adam the Ants, Gene Love Jezebel was initially embraced by the Goth community, before the band morphed into an arguably more marketable inca...
So, I knew Tower Records has been going out of business, but for some reason I had a giant brain fart and the fact that they have been trying to clear everything out by drastically slashing prices kind of flew past me these past few weeks. Fortunately, I pulled my head out of my bum and the hubby and I went to the Tower in Santa Monica on Saturday. We made out like bandits. Going-out-of-busin...