When Michael Jackson released his Thriller video in December 1983 it was a year zero for presenting pop music – a 14-minute short film directed by John Landis, with higher production values than most horror […]
Category: Vault
A lost treasure of cosmic Americana: Jim Sullivan – UFO (1969)
I never cease to be amazed at the breadth of incredible music from the past that’s out there to be discovered. The rarities that get excavated by musical archaeologists like Light in the Attic, Numero, […]
‘Seven women fighting over a cowbell’: The 80s No Wave art-punk weirdness of Pulsallama
Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 not only cemented the socio-economic foundations of just about everything that is wrong with the West, it also coincided with a short-lived epoch of unfettered creativity in New York City. […]
Oran “Juice” Jones – The Rain: A weirdo boogie-soul revenge fantasy (1986)
Ah, the 80s – a simpler time for gender politics, when the most popular comedian on the planet was Eddie Murphy, doing his routine about gold-diggers, and on the big screen the most aspirational figure […]
All the right noises: October 2018 in 20 tracks
UUUU – Electric Blanket (from s/t EP) UUUU’s debut s/t was one of Moo Kid’s albums of 2017, and the follow-up EP takes the experimental project into further slithery territories. The four U’s are Graham […]
Letting the days go by: Talking Heads in 10 songs
One of the most iconic bands to emerge from the late-70s New Wave and post-punk era was also one of the weirdest. You’ll know Talking Heads’ go-to songs like ‘Psycho Killer’, ‘Road To Nowhere’ and […]
Same as he ever was: When David Byrne played the Galway Arts Festival (2004)
Any anoraks out Byrne-watching on July 26 might have bumped into a stranger in a strange land. According to his online tour journal, the singer took his fold-out bike for a ride on Salthill Prom […]
