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Brick By Brick07 Apr 2022When I was 15 I loved Brick by Brick the album by Iggy Pop. And I loved it because of the music on it, sure. But I loved it, first of all, because I had found the poster in a music store, been given i... -
Two Brilliant Music Memoirs05 Apr 2022I’ve read so many music biographies, memoirs and autobiographies. I used to call it an “occupational hazard” – I mean it was nearly a first love, I remember reading books about John Lennon and Mick Ja...
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Grizzly Man: One of My Favourite Documentaries03 Apr 2022Timothy Treadwell is one of the great flawed characters of cinema. But he is (or rather was) – and this is the best part – real; he was no creation – Treadwell was a real human and he filmed himself o...
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An Important 20th Anniversary We All Forgot…31 Mar 2022Last week, and forgive me for not mentioning it at the time, but I was caught up in a rush of relistening to Sonic Youth – I neglected to mention one of the big 20th Anniversaries associated with musi...
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You Must Read “Grand” by Noelle McCarthy – Out Now!29 Mar 2022I’ve probably told you this at least one other time but a favourite thing to get to do – and it doesn’t happen often enough – is to buy a brand new book and read it that night. That whole thing. Maybe...
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Possessor: What a Film!27 Mar 2022Possessor belongs to that dark and wonderful strain of film – the science fiction psychological horror. And director/writer Brandon Cronenberg is royalty within that genre. He’s been bubbling away und...
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I Miss Sonic Youth But The Music Is Forever24 Mar 2022When I was 13, I started reading Guitar World - I was obsessed with the guitar. I was listening to a lot of blues-rock stuff – Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin and Jeff Beck. But reading Guitar World hel...
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You Definitely Need The Gloves22 Mar 2022It started at the end of a long plane ride. We flew from San Francisco to Sydney – through the night – and went from Northern Hemisphere summer to rain, rain, rain in Australia. It was freezing and pi...
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A TV Love Like This: Once In Every Lifetime...20 Mar 2022Without a doubt one of the most profound pop-culture influences in my life is The Young Ones. I watched it when I was a young one, far too young to actually get all of the jokes. But I laughed along w...
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Micro-Blogging Music Prose-Poems17 Mar 2022I mentioned to you, in another newsletter not so long ago, that I was having fun taking blog-posts that I’d written and turning them into poems. And that I was also taking poems and making them blog p...
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