Saturday, May 18, 2024

How Shoegaze Became Shoegaze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XFB4gl1Iok

When Punk & Reggae Fans Launched the “Rock Against Racism”

Source: Open Culture, June 17th, 2020 The UK of the late-70s was, in many unfortunate respects, like the UK (and US) of today, with far-right attacks against West Indian and...

The Sisters and The Cult

Source: SistersFan August 11, 2020 Looking at links between the two biggest bands to come out of West Yorkshire in the 1980's, including a detailed look at the time a...

What happened when goth went metal: an oral history

Source: Louder Sound May 21, 2020 By Dave Everley (Classic Rock)  A look at the rise of goth metal, which saw some early goths elbowed into the margins or disappearing completely,...

First foreign band to play North Korea is famed for its ‘fascism’

Source: The Conversation August 18, 2015 The 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula’s liberation from colonial Japan is being celebrated in Pyongyang with two concerts by the Slovenian rock band Laibach....

Oi! – The Truth by Garry Bushell

Source: Wayback Machine “We stand for punk as bootboy music. Oi! is working class, and if you’re not working class you’ll get a kick in the bollocks.” – Stinky Turner, 1980. “Loud,...

The Sound and The Fury — 40 years without Ian Curtis

Playlist | Ian Curtis' influences -- such as Bowie in his Berlin phase, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Velvet Underground, Nick Drake -- and Joy Division. By Daniel Lansky

How Ronnie James Dio saved Black Sabbath

Source: Louder By Paul Elliott | 2020 Feb 18   Black Sabbath might have lost Ozzy, but they recruited Dio and make one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time (Image credit:...

The Sisterhood — Giving Ground (extended remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB6r1WNA1i4 Giving Ground The Sisters of Mercy Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme In the place, through which we wander Reason turned around And every fool Will see his madness drowned And every truth is...

The Woman Who Invented Rock n’ Roll: An Introduction to Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Trechos do primeiro vídeo a seguir: "Seu primeiro sucesso foi uma canção intitulada 'Rock Me' " "O que a música gospel trouxe para a música popular foi sentimento. E pessoas como...