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40 Years Ago: ALTERED IMAGES record their first Peel Session

Photograph: Terry Lott Time for me to step into the cold shower again and listen to another one from Altered Images... ALTERED IMAGES recorded their first of three sessions for John Peel's programme on this day in 1980. Peel had first met the group less than a month...

7 October 2020

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38 Years Ago: RITUAL release Mind Disease

Great roaring post-punk with an abrasive sax, horror themes, and frantic drumming, especially on "Mind Disease." "Nine" is more arty and hence less effective, but these guys have real potential. For early KILLING JOKE fans. Maximum Rocknroll #3, 1982 RITUAL released the Mind Disease 7" on this day...

6 October 2020

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32 Years Ago: DANZIG live in Sheffield

This is, as far as I know, the earliest DANZIG live footage! On this day in 1988 at Sheffield City Hall. supporting METALLICA. Six dates into their Not of This World Tour which began in Edinburgh on the 24th. After 14 UK dates the band returned to the...

30 September 2020

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20 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH release Enemy of the Music Business

I think on face value you can look at it and [think] we might be sparking off on some fuckin' righteous trip or whatever, but it's not so much that, really, as a case of documentation of all the shit that we went through. I mean, I like...

25 September 2020

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35 Years Ago: AMEBIX release Arise!

As if a soundtrack for a ultra-bizarre horror treat, AMEBIX scorches down with a deep haunting sound while the guitar and bass churn out some cauldronistic spells of eerie havoc. Vocals are booming and strong, pushing with character, and "Arise" is superbly recorded and shows the improvement of...

14 September 2020

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40 Years Ago: DEAD KENNEDYS release Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

We were meticulous. We were never - and I have never been - fast in the studio. 'California Uber Alles', just a goddamn single, took a month. But the results speak for themselves. The rest of the band would really get down on me for being too picky,...

2 September 2020

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40 Years Ago: YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS record a Peel session

YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS recorded their one John Peel session on this day in 1980 at Maida Vale 4. I remember this night well - it was a huge thrill to be invitied to record for the Peel Sessions at BBC Maida Vale in London. I was not such...

18 August 2020

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42 Years Ago: THE FALL release Bingo-Master's Break-Out!

Nobody liked it. It was... out of tune and that. It was good. Stark, sort of. Mark E Smith / The Fall interview, The Independent THE FALL released their first EP, Bingo-Master's Break-Out!, on this day in 1978 through Miles Copeland's Step-Forward Records. Songs were recorded in November...

11 August 2020

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27 Years Ago: ROT record Cruel Face of Life

After all these years I still enjoying what we did on this album, I think that "Cruel Face of Life" got the best of us for that time and it was a very important released to ROT, the only thing that still bothering me is that it only...

8 August 2020

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40 Years Ago: MISFITS record 3 Hits from Hell

THE MISFITS began recording 3 Hits from Hell on this day in 1980 at Master Sound Productions, Franklin Square, New York. Mixing was completed a month later. By that time guitarist Bobby Steele had been replaced by Doyle. Each song was recorded in one take with overdubs added...

7 August 2020

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40 Years Ago: SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES release Kaleidoscope

Siouxsie Sioux and her Banshees - with new members Budgie and John McGeoch - released their third album, Kaleidoscope, on this day in 1980 through Polydor. We definitely had a concept to the album, which was to make each track completely different and, for the first time, we...

1 August 2020

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38 Years Ago: THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, LYDIA LUNCH, DIE HAUT live in Koln

Photograph: Wolfgang Wiggers/Flickr One of a series of gigs in late June / early July - DIE HAUT, LYDIA LUNCH, and THE BIRTHDAY PARTY - performed live on this day in 1982 at the Franz Stollwerck Maschinenhalle, Köln. The abandoned factory was occupied in 1980 and became a...

2 July 2020

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30 Years Ago: BASTRO record their second John Peel session

BASTRO recorded two sessions for John Peel's programme. This, their second, on this day in 1990. First played on the 23rd and repeated in October. Both times the songs were played in a full 12 minute block. BASTRO's second album, Diablo Guapo, was released in 1989. Around the...

1 July 2020

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30 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH live in Salisbury (Live Corruption)

NAPALM DEATH played live at the Salisbury Arts Centre on this day in 1990.Pro-shot and released on VHS as Live Corruption by Fotodisk in the US and a few years later by Earache in the UK. The day before, NAPALM DEATH played at the Institute of Contemporary Arts,...

30 June 2020

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30 Years Ago: DANZIG release II: Lucifuge

I believe I have my own place in the Rock sphere. And no-one else can really occupy it. You see you can't be anything else but yourself and carve out your own niche. People have influenced me sure, but what i do doesn't sound like anyone else. I...

26 June 2020

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38 Years Ago: THE UNDEAD release 9 Toes Later

September, 1981. A hospital in New York City. Bobby Steele - the Misfits' one-time guitar hero and token drugbag fuck up (EVERY punk band NEEDED one of those, back then) and now leader of his own hotshit punk band, the Undead - is lying in a bed listening...

25 June 2020

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36 Years Ago: GOVERNMENT ISSUE live at Newton Theater, Washington DC

GOVERNMENT ISSUE live on this day in 1984. The audio is available - officially, as part of the Live Bootleg Series - on most digital outlets, including Bandcamp. Other bands that played this night were HUSKER DU, NEGATIVE APPROACH, MALEFICE, and UNDERGROUND SOLDIER. The Newton Theater opened in...

24 June 2020

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33 Years Ago: DEZERTER release Underground Out of Poland

DEZERTER released their debut album on this day in 1987 through Maximum Rock'n'Roll. The material on this record was smuggled out of Poland by Joey Shithead (D.O.A.) who met the band after playing at Warsaw's Riviera Remont. The way we got to Poland was... a guy had written...

15 June 2020

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