Month: July 2020

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Nine Inch Nails’ “Every Day is Exactly the Same” … no words have ever been truer

Nine Inch Nails' EP single for "Every Day is Exactly the Same."
I had to take a few days off due to some pesky allergies ... is it allergies? is it Covid? You know the routine. We've all pondered it with even the slightest deviation in health. Anyway, I've been thinking a lot about how this ongoing crisis continues to continue, and I thought of this Nine …

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Mogwai’s Rework of Penelope Trappes’ “Burn On”

Penelope Trappes. Photo sourced from artist's Facebook.
I've been in a bit of a mood today, so I've been seeking something uniquely tuned to my tunneled outlook of fading light and tenuous balance. That's when Penelope Trappes stepped out from the Spotify shadows and into my churning, burning mindset.She's a Londoner, Aussie-born, and specializes in pinpoint-focused melodies of extreme minimalism and infinite …

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Peter Hook and the Light perform Joy Division’s “Substance”

Peter Hook and the Light w/vocal support from Moby perform Joy Division at the Wiltern Theatre on 09.24.16.
At the risk of seeming redundant or uninspired, I've got one more post motivated by that lengthy New Order retrospective I indulged in on Monday. Although, this time around, I'm focused on their previous incarnation as the formative post-punk ensemble Joy Division.Of course, Joy Division no longer exists in a band sense. There music lives …

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“Getting Away With It” with Electronic

Electronic's 1991 eponymously titled debut, featuring the single "Getting Away With It."
It's been a hell of a last few days fighting a seemingly endless and remarkably defiant ant infestation, so I'll keep today's post more straightforward than most. White vinegar, by the way. That's the magic bullet, thus far.Today's entry features early '90s alternative "supergroup" Electronic, founded by New Order's frontman Bernard Sumner and The Smith's …

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New Order: a couple of old shows, in lieu of a postponed “Unity”

New Order perform at the Shrine Auditorium on 03.09.16.
On this beautiful Monday afternoon, one of the warmest of the summer thus far, I'm opting for another flashback performance ... or in this case, a couple of them, paired up to offer a more well-rounded experience. Same act. Multiple shows.The band is New Order, and before things went tits-up in the Corona wars, they …

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