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Feature: Live: My Bloody Valentine

This is the first gig I've been to where almost everyone in the audience hoped and expected to leave in pain: My Bloody Valentine's show finale, the white noise coda to "You Made Me Realise", has become as central to their legend as the bankrupt record ...

From TOM EWING, Pitchfork,  23 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Mark Richardson

Feature: Column: Poptimist #16

"T-Shirts, sweatshirts, posters-- you name it, Marvel tried it. But always with a humorous, self-deprecating approach, which seemed to say: it's all right for a young adult to buy and even wear a T-Shirt with the Incredible Hulk on it-- as long as ...

From TOM EWING, Pitchfork,  20 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Roy Thomas,  Stan Lee

Review: The Orb: The Dream

Let's dream a dream of classic Orb music. What would it include? Long, rangy dub basslines, undoubtedly. Twinkling snatches of suggestive melody, maybe. Certainly a couple of vocal samples, drifting in and out of tracks like happy mental flotsam. And ...

From TOM EWING, Pitchfork,  9 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Alex Paterson

Review: Lykke Li: Youth Novels

Sweden has found a niche for itself as the backroom of modern pop. Its production teams provide the engineers for global Top 40 sounds; in men like Jens Lekman and Johan Agebjörn it produces theorists of pop classicism; and its own top-sellers, like ...

From TOM EWING, Pitchfork,  3 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Jens Lekman

Feature: Column: Poptimist #15

David Bowie's Scary Monsters is the first album I can remember calling my favorite. I came late to albums-- at 11 or 12 it seemed weird to me to buy a record where you didn't know you'd like everything on it-- and I only really started to think about ...

From TOM EWING, Pitchfork,  23 May 2008
Related Topics: David Bowie,  Pet Shop Boys,  John Peel

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