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For a second I thought that was a photo of Barney from Napalm Death.

It’s by Ween.

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Charli doing a rock album - sure but do it like when Scott Walker worked with SunnO))). Hell we had a taste with the john Cale collab - lean in.

cords of bandana

All power to Madonna but I wouldn’t mind hearing Confessions Of Slobbing In Front Of Gogglebox On An Evening or a sequel to the quieter and most contemplative moments from Ray Of Light.

Mr @herring1967.bsky.social has been asking this for years.

‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists who’re sick of the pressure to promote on social media From Stewart Lee in his wolf costume to Werner Herzog’s big steak sizzle-up, artists are now under huge duress to ‘chase the algorithm’ and reach audiences. Many of them are hitting burnout – and hitt...

As someone who (begrudgingly) turned the camera on themselves on insta this week for promo, I wanted to speak with artists - musicians, comics, writers, actors, gamers - to see how they are feeling about the pressures of making short form video content. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Excellent. Big problem. Urgh.

It’s the Dances / Curses AOTY controversy all over again.

I sent my friend Phil a link to the Nine Inch Noize set and he said one of the songs sounded like INXS in a really bad mood.

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We were mixing at the time; we'd found the life size Beatle cutouts in the Abbey Rd studio 2 storeroom and had put them in the studio behind our instruments. Luckily we'd put them away just before Paul appeared. 'Jesus, thank fuck we did that that' said Steve.

Well worn story: Me and Albini in the control room. Suddenly Paul Mac bursts in. He just starts up with the scrambled eggs story. We were trying to be a little too cool for school, but I caught Steve in the corner of my eye, being pretty awed. Then he was gone. Dude.

Thank you! They must have good taste in there. :)

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An annual message from The Wire

Publishing an independent music magazine is tougher than ever. We need your continuing support

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Well, I feel like music mags, with their barrage of four and five star reviews, now resemble the Argos catalogue and I’m not sure that’s healthy (or very useful to cultural historians of the future). But essentially the point is to write a decent piece of criticism, whatever the perspective.

If an expensive restaurant serves an overhyped bowl of flavourless, disgusting or poisonous soup, it’s the food critic’s duty to inform the consumer.

Anyway, here’s an amusing bit of music writing I recently read for the first time. Phil Sutcliffe in Sounds (via Rock’s Backpages), 1980, on XTC. Andy Partridge has complained about too many “K” words in reviews of his band (“jerky”, etc.)…

Jarvis Cocker was singing the truth.
“We’d like to go to town but we can’t risk it.”

Exactly. If you were in B&S back then, or dressed like them, you could be attacked in some streets for wearing a cardigan and corduroy. No need to do it in print, as well.

And for the record there is a quiet radicalism to B&S. Saw them play the main stage at Leeds Fest once, billed among a load of pop-punk, emo, nu-metal nonsense. “We’re the only act today who aren’t going to swear at you.”