(Hey, if Anna can say "Oh my Kapranos", I can say this. It's MY soft-swear, and I like it!)About 10PM tonight, I decided I was tired of sitting in front of the PC's, so I grabbed the dog leash, and took the dog on a walk. Of course, the Gigabeat came with us as well. As I powered it up, I realized that The Smiths' Louder Than Bombs was finishing, and my heart leapt as I realized that My Bloody ...
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So much has already been written about the after-16-year reunion of this, the greatest shoegazer band of all time. What is then that I could possibly add?Well, one thing (and its really the only thing in my book) - I can add are my own unique impressions and experience on it all.Anyone familiar with this current tour knows the deal by now. Band makes never-matched, unparalleled album "Loveless"...
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Since this question has come up in a few posts, I thought I'd try to answer the question myself. I did use allmusic.com and wikipedia.com as references, but I decided to not just link to the articles; however, you may notice that I'm no writer. Now that the self-deprecation is out of the way, let us begin.Shoegaze is a term most often used for a group of British indie bands from the late 80’s.
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My Bloody Valentine closed out their seminal 1991 shoegaze album Loveless with something shocking: an extremely danceable track called "Soon". Loveless was a record-length exploration of noise and melody masterminded by guitarist Kevin Shields. On it, Shields combines the quavering tremolo tones of surf guitar with layers of Marshall amp distortion. The effect is the auditory equivalent of rapi...
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33⅓ is a series of short books written about important and/or seminal music albums and published by Continuum. The books in the series vary widely in style, from fiction (e.g. Joe Pernice's Meat Is Murder which is fantastic) to musical analysis to recounting the history of the given album's birth. Mike McGonigal's volume on MBV's Loveless has been for ages in the making. But now its imminent r.
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