"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Become a Patron! – Magazine – About the Weather – from Magic, Murder and The Weather – 1981 Magazine arrived on the scene without so much as a genre attached to their music. Howard Devoto, having left Buzzcocks, formed Magazine…
– Big Audio Dynamite – Live in Bradford, 1988 – BBC 6 Music – Exiting his tenure with The Clash, co-founder Mick Jones was busy putting together another chapter in a highly influential musical career. First forming the short-lived T.R.A.C.…
I’d love it if you’d subscribe: Become a Patron! Diving back to 1980 this weekend for a concert by one of those defining bands of the late 70s/early 80s The Police managed to straddle the non-conventional Punk and New Wave…
And of course, coffee: – BBC In Concert – 1979-03-24 – Fingerprintz – Diving into some 70s Post-Punk/New Wave to start the week by way of Fingerprintz. Started in 1979, Fingerprintz is probably best known in the U.S. as the…
Show a little love: Become a Patron! – 1981-01-01 BBC In Concert (Generation X) – BBC Radio 1 – Heading over to the Paris Theater in London for a half-hour set by Generation X, featuring the inimitable Billy Idol. In…
Coffee works too: – Violent Femmes – live at Town and Country – 1991 – BBC 6 Music – Violent Femmes this morning. A nod to the midwest bands during the 80s and early 90s who shaped and help define…
Coffee? Did you say coffee? – Be Bop Deluxe – live at Oxford – BBC Radio 1 Rock Goes To College – 1978 – BBC Be Bop Deluxe were a band the critics loved but the audience apparently only moderately…
Double Espresso, please: – Elvis Costello and The Attractions -Live At Hope and Anchor – 1980 – BBC 6 Music – Diving back to the 80s this week – Elvis Costello from 1980. When I first heard Elvis Costello it…
It pays for us to keep running: Become a Patron! – XTC – In Concert At Old Waldorf, San Francisco – Feb. 25, 1980 – ©Terry Hammer Archives – One of the bands that made the 80s something to talk…
– The Go-Go’s – Live at Hakano Plaza, Tokyo – June 19, 1982 – Not exactly Christmas, but it’s still festive – A concert tonight by The Go-Go’s, recorded live at Hakano Plaza in Tokyo on June 19th, 1982. Christened…