The musical theme of the night is English Indie, particularly 1980s post-punk, through to Britpop. |
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Frank Black has been quoted recently as warming to the idea of reuniting his seminal post-punk outfit, the Pixies. |
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Even a few years ago, when I said I loved post-punk, people didn't know what I meant. |
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You can't keep something this good locked away in your post-punk treasure chest forever. |
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And you will also know them by loud, brash post-punk anthems like this one. |
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Add to that some post-punk influences and you have a solid mix of melody and noise. |
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Instead, Watchers dwell on post-punk anxiety, lending these tunes a forced, undeserving gravity. |
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The band have combined the best aspects of post-punk rock and new-romantic experimentation. |
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They take that 80s melodic, post-punk sound and make it feel renewed rather then rehashed. |
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Recently I finished writing Rip it Up and Start Again, a history of the post-punk era. |
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The Scream signalled the arrival of post-punk, oddly enough, from one of the original punk groups. |
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In fact, post-punk had implications more wide-reaching than punk, in the sense that it shaped pop music. |
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Radio 4's roots are firmly planted in the rich tradition of British post-punk, lest anyone forget. |
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Rhythms grow, and as they do so they distort and disfigure, becoming something like the post-punk you know, but wholly fresh to the senses. |
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John Cale and Brian Eno are the godfathers of post-punk as defined by Reynolds. |
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English post-punk was my obsession and Peel provided the only historical evidence of some of these bands. |
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Why else would they release this seemingly innocuous collection of scrawling post-punk? |
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Of course, yes of course, they embraced retro-punk and the chic dark-browed sounds of post-punk. |
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Russ, I can't argue with your pointing out my strong inclination towards the artier end of post-punk. |
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Of course, as you know, I've never really seen the transcendence in post-punk. |
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In part two of our five-part interview with the post-punk legend, he discusses his top three Joy Division covers of all time. |
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And there was not so much as a glimpse of the post-punk landscape in sight. |
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It was almost inevitable that the debut full-length from this post-punk band was going to be phenomenal. |
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One striking feature of Beat Poet's post-punk is the swapping of instruments. |
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Joy Division became famous for their bleak, introspective music, which became the hallmark of Britain's post-punk music scene. |
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They were both a big influence on post-punk bands and they had good covers. |
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It's only a matter of time until post-punk or new wave invoke eye-rolling, but don't give up on the genre just yet. |
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So post-punk is music which is reacting against punk, consciously trying to move beyond it. |
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As well being politically aware, their music is awash with anthemic, post-punk rhythmic bursts. |
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Suddenly we are surrounded with reminders of just how interesting the post-punk musical scene was. |
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It is not exactly a disco beat and not exactly post-punk, but lies somewhere in between the two. |
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Regrettably, such dialectics piled on the post-punk jumble are too didactic to warrant repeat listenings, even at grad-school shindigs. |
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While it didn't show up in any Billboard charts, the story of 2002's rock and dance undergrounds was the resurgence of post-punk. |
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Their music has a little bit of many great influences, from post-punk to new wave to shoegaze. |
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The roster of tattooed, pierced misfits and post-punk gals has become a phenomenon with a recent burlesque revue touring North America. |
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Oddly, there's a sense that some current contenders are simply slavishly imitating their post-punk forebears. |
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A French Algerian, he fuses contemporary Arabic popular music with post-punk guitar rock. |
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Reviews were mixed, but Smith suddenly found himself the figurehead for a growing army of disaffected post-punk kids in mascara and black lipstick. |
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They converted their esoteric post-punk tastes into instant pop thrills. |
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The Clean is the original post-punk independent band from New Zealand. |
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And 115 years later, a post-punk band got named in its honor. |
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Their recent move signals a change from experimental noise to post-punk. |
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I think one of the major factors that separated punk, post-punk and new wave is danceability. |
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In his brilliant appraisal of the post-punk years, Simon Reynolds debunks the old idea that the Sixties witnessed pop's golden era. |
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They were the triumphal enfant terrible of the UK's post-punk, independent music scene. |
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Live, the four piece are a brooding mixture of visceral, post-punk textures and relentless motorik rhythms. |
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I had grand visions of dropping my obscure '80s post-punk gems on people, of sowing the seeds for '90s revivalism via some well placed selections. |
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Add to this a UK music press obsessed with novelty in the post-punk era, and you've got a microwave recipe for compartmentalization via xenophile adoration. |
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Silent Partners make pop music to dance to with scratchy wah-wah and rousing choruses slightly at odds with the Dermo's Discharge T-shirt and patched-up post-punk jacket. |
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The cultural authorities began to allow post-punk bands to get accreditation for legal concerts, though lyrics remained an issue. |
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This duo has run the gamut of glam rock, post-punk, electronica, and pop and is currently on some serious next-level, symphonic, music-hall style that is truly bizarre. |
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On the evidence of their eponymous debut album, they don't even have much in common with others in the new wave of bands influenced by post-punk guitar. |
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It has been described as indie rock, neo-psychedelia, post-punk revival, shoegaze, gothic rock, dream pop, garage punk and horror punk. |
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What else would you expect from a guy who formed the post-punk band Giant Sandworms in 1980 with his good bud Rainer Ptacek, the late, renowned slide guitarist? |
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An English-born gothic rock vocalist and the founder of the 1980s post-punk group Bauhaus, Murphy was a progenitor of the Goth movement and of the rise of post-punk. |
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This unusual band specialise in acoustic and 60s-style bossa nova versions of some of the best punk, post-punk and new wave songs of the last 30 years. |
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The finale is another cover, of Suicide's Dream Baby Dream, which doesn't fare as well, syrupy strings and drum loops replacing the post-punk duo's gutter drone. |
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