bobbie-robron · 2 years ago
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There’s just no way that Aaron would want to dress up and wear makeup. He’s the least camp guy I know.
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aeolianblues · 2 months ago
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Presented without comment.
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viir-tanadhal · 7 months ago
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now i need to see eva pentel's photoshoot of neil and chris
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sunburnacoustic · 1 year ago
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Muse reveal all about new album
March 15, 2006 16:13 | The band take NME.COM into the studio.
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Muse’s fourth sees the band getting political for the first time.
NME.COM visited the band as they completed mixing on their as-yet-untitled fourth record at London’s Sanctuary Townhouse Studios, and as well as the first listen to the new tracks, singer Matt Bellamy explained how this time, recent world events have influenced him.
“There’s a song on the album called ‘A Soldier’s Poem’, written from the perspective of a soldier, who kind of thinks ‘I’m out here risking my life, for what?’” he said.
Bellamy added that themes of impending apocalypse also visited on ‘Absolution’ are more specific this time round. “There is a theme on the album, it’s that kind of connection to the cycles of history where the tension builds up and then it’s released. Whether it’s catastrophic like a nuclear war, or whether aliens come down and it’s brilliant, but there’s definitely a sense that something big is about to happen.”
Decamping to south of France Muse recorded at Miraval Studios, before heading to New York to record the songs with long-time producer Rich Costey.
Virtually cut off without cars or television in France, Bellamy admitted the band were in danger of going “off the rails”, and enjoyed hitting the big city.
“I was going out dancing in clubs around New York,” said the singer. “That helped create tracks like ‘Supermassive Black Hole’. Franz (Fedinand) have done it very well, with that dance type beat going on mixed with alternative guitar and I’ve always wanted to find that.”
The currently untitled album is due out in July, with Bellamy is confident people will react to its more topical themes. “Some of the songs are directly informed by things that are going on at the moment,” he declared referencing the Iraqi war. “Which is something we’ve not really done before, but it’s impossible for anyone to ignore it.”
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hide-your-bugs-away · 7 months ago
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Having a bit of a Magazine Renaissance in my search for Animal-Magazines, and I couldn't be happier....... 👀
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#trying not to think about missing the chance to get an issue of 'jackie' with an article about the alan price set in it too much aGGghgh#iT WILL BE BACK I'M SURE OF IT#anyway..... eeeee animal#literally right after i receive that issue of 'mersey beat' the same seller lists THIS. AND I EXPLODE.#BOUGHT IT RIGHT AWAY. I LOVE HAVING A JOB THAT WAY I CAN ARCHIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ANIMALS#not only on the front cover with a photo i've never seen before bUT WITH AN ENTIRE CENTERFOLD ARTICLE EEEEEE#alan in a chair....... practically leaning against eric...... help help help i will cry#i can't tell what's happening with john in the crease he looks like an analog horror character#very very VERY excited for this.....#there are some other mags i'm eyeing too... some issues of 'NME' and another 'Melody Maker' with alan on the front#and there is an issue of 'jackie' with an alan article that's soooo good... talking about things he does to improve his mental health 🥹🥹🥹#GOSHHHH I LOVE!! COLLECTING MAGAZINES ABOUT THEM!!#there's so little information shared about the animals and especially alan from the actual 60s... just lots of recent and bitter interviews#THERE'S SO MUCH UNDERSTANDING AND POSITIVITY IN THESE. especially the more music-oriented ones that aren't teen-gossip-heavy#crazy how this particular issue is from just a month before alan left the band.... gOSH WHAT WILL HE SAY?? 😭🙏#the animals#british invasion#60s rock#not a second mag#that picture is going to be my new banner icon once i scan a higher quality version of it#ALAN. IN THE CHAIR.
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ordenyprogreso · 1 year ago
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ialwaysknewyouwerepunk · 10 months ago
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rachel chinouriri for NME mag!!!
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Joe and Kit for NME mag!
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brighteyesandbass · 1 year ago
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Murdoc and Ace lore post!
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Free Murdoc Facebook interactions, 2018.
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DJ Mag. [x]
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NME. [x]
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Humility Commentary. [x]
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Gorillaz Almanac, page 121. [x]
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aaliyahunleashed · 1 year ago
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#OnThisDay June 1, 2001
She also does two back-to-back photoshoots for two (2) international magazines; NME and MIX MAG with Hamish Brown and Adam Weiss
CORRECTION NOTE: In my May 26 post, I listed this shoot as the photoshoot she had with Hamish Brown. She DID have a shoot with him that day (May 26), but she had a sheer top on on instead; if that makes sense. #MyBad
For this day, MTV would follow her and document her day for their Diary series.
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weneverlearn · 17 days ago
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This Ain't No Disco
Ira Robbins tells us about his new reprint of the first official history of CBGB, out this week through Trouser Press Books
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In the early 1980s -- as the "new wave" (and all that contained) was seeping out into far-flung U.S. suburbs -- Trouser Press was, for me and a load of my underground-curious music pals, the best indie-heavy music mag out there. And I remember it being a bit easier to find in Parma, Ohio, than the almost mythical mags you heard about from New York (Rock Scene, Punk, NY Rocker, etc.) or London (Melody Maker, NME, etc.).
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After a 10-year run, Trouser Press sadly stopped publishing in the mid-80s, but founder Ira Robbins kept the vibe alive with five consistently updated volumes of The Trouser Press Record Guide. Pre-internet, these hefty encyclopedias of all things alt-rock were essential texts in any true music lovers bathroom. For me, seeing the New Bomb Turks entry in the final edition, The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock, was a stronger validation of my life choices than if we'd won a Grammy.
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TrouserPress.com started up in 1997, and a few years ago, all issues were scanned and available there. Since moving to the Big Apple myself, seeing Robbins pop up at various events never fails to instantly turn me into the 14-year old kid who first picked up a Trouser Press and marveled at where my world could go. It helps he's a super nice guy too.
Trouser Press Books kicked in in 2009, and has since released a number of excellent music tomes, the latest being an expanded reissue of the long out-of-print, 1988 book, This Ain't No Disco -- often regarded as the first history book about the famed punk rock joint that Robbins sunk his sneakers into throughout the original punk explosion.
We caught up with Robbins to see how this needed reprint came about...
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So why did you decide to tackle this reprint?
When I decided to make Trouser Press Books an ongoing concern in 2022, I wasn’t sure I could attract enough new projects to consider (I was wrong about that), and thought that music books that have been out of print a long time but still relevant would be another way to build the imprint. Along with a few others in my library, this one seemed an obvious choice. It came out in 1988, but remains an important primary source on CBGB.
Roman died in 1988, but I was able to locate his sister and helped her get a release from the original publisher so that we could do this new edition together.
It is generally considered the first full history book about CBGB, no?
It definitely was the first book about the club. Pretty foresightful if you ask me.
What are your memories of first coming across This Ain't No Disco?
Roman Kozak interviewed me for it and I attended the launch party for it at (no prizes for guessing where), so I was well aware of its existence.
Did you know Roman Kozak or Ebet Roberts at that time?
Roman, who was a Billboard editor, I knew to say hello to when I’d see him at shows. Ebet I knew quite well because she had been a regular photographer for Trouser Press magazine for much of its existence.
If so, can you tell me anything about both people, as far as coming across them around the general NYC scene orbit?
I was introduced to Ebet because of her connection to the Planets, the band led by Binky Philips, who I knew from summer camp. (All of the Trouser Press gang loved the Planets.) The CBGB scene was so small in the beginning that it was like a social club as much as a rock venue. Ebet made it a point to shoot at CB’s as much as she could.
Just to clear things up - Ebet's photos were in the original, right? Any new images added to this new edition?
Yes, they were, sprinkled throughout the book and not printed to her satisfaction. When we started work on the new edition, we – my wife, Kristina Juzaitis, who designs all of our books, and I – decided to run a 12-page glossy photo insert and asked Ebet to make a new selection of images. Ebet has a book of her New York punk work coming out, so she wanted to avoid including the same images. So there are some holdovers from the original book, but there are some different ones as well.  And the printing quality is a lot better.
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The Story of CBGB Playlist - Ira Robbins
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Editing this edition now years after first reading it, did anything surprise you, as far as how the story of CBGB has perhaps morphed over the years?
This Ain’t No Disco really brings the reality back. Now that CBGB has become essentially a t-shirt legend to people who were never there, reading about the day-to-day business of what Hilly Kristal dealt with, and the actual people who made it happen, is pretty eye-opening. I don’t know if it punctures the illusion or ups the punk ante, but I think it’s important history to know what actually happened in that magnificent Bowery dive.
One thing I was surprised to learn is why some of the artists were selected to be on the Live at CBGB album. I recall when it was released in 1976 being really disappointed by how unrepresentative it was of the CB’s scene. The book explains how (a.) Hilly couldn’t get the top acts to participate and (b.) a lot of the minor bands on the album had direct connections to the club that I didn’t know about.
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Do you think CBGB's history has been mythologized; and if so, will anything in this book re-correct some bloated mythologies? Or was it all gloriously true? 
The dog shit, the chili, the tables and chairs, the bathrooms, the killer PA, Karen Kristal’s strict rules – yeah, it was all true. But none of that mattered. What was important was how much amazing music was created onstage.
What was the process of finding the original material and crafting the reprint? I imagine it was maybe a nightmare tracking down old typed out manuscripts and unscanned photos? But then again, maybe it was all saved on a floppy disc... or what?
I scanned the old book, page by page. When I was working on my own memory/anthology, Music in a Word, I discovered that it was easy to do OCR (optical character recognition) via Google Drive – you upload the scans and then open each page using Google Docs – it converts them to text in a flash. There are some tricks to making it work right, but basically it’s as easy as pie. So, I used that technique to assemble a Word document of the whole thing. That had to be checked for missing bits and wrongly transcribed words, but it was basically done.
Were there any major hurdles along the way, as far as any missing pieces/parts, having to re-finagle photo rights, etc.?
Nothing too terrible. Ebet, as I said, is still a good friend, and she and Kri and I worked together to select the photos. We agonized over the cover a bit, but it all turned out great in the end.
How did you decide on Chris Frantz to write the new forward?
Given that the book was written 35 years ago and ends while the club was still a going concern, I was concerned that readers might be confused about what exactly it is in 2024. I wanted people to understand that this was a historical document, not a modern look back at what CBGB was. Also, I thought there might be readers for whom the name CBGB doesn’t connote all the obvious stuff – the bands, the era, the excitement – that it does for someone who was there. It needed an introduction of some sort to put the book (as well as the club) in context. Chris published a well-received memoir a few years back, so I knew he could write intelligently, and he has the stature to say something personal and significant about the club as well as the book. He was generous enough to agree to write the foreword, and delivered it right on time and in excellent shape.
How long did it take from light bulb going off to final sent to the printers?
More than two years. Finding and contacting Roman’s family took a while and then getting the rights back from Faber and Faber took a while. Trouser Press Books is a two-person operation, and we can only publish four or five titles a year, so this one got on the back burner a couple of times.
You wrote some new text for this edition about the closing of the club, right?
Actually, I didn’t write new text – I included a piece I wrote for Spin when the final battle for the future of CBGB was being waged in 2005 and a report on the closing night I did for New York Newsday in 2006. The club had long since passed its prime and I doubt I’d seen any shows there in years, but I was glad to have been there for the swan song.
Have you seen any of those invite-only concerts they have at the former CBs / Varvatos store sometimes? I saw the Dolls play there when their second new era album came out; and saw Cheap Trick do Budokan there. If so, thoughts? 
I was at both of those gigs as well. They were so packed out it was like being in the club. Otherwise, a high-priced clothing store, even with the ephemera on the walls, is not really up my alley. But more recently I attended a party for the release of a live Nuggets album my friend Rick Johnson produced and was surprised how deep the space is. I’m glad they’ve made an effort to honor CBGB in the space.
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Podcast interview with Ira Robbins, April, 2024
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flamingplay · 9 months ago
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"This song is about the subject of a viral road rage video, Ronnie Pickering, who shot to (a certain kind of) fame by insisting on his own significance, repeatedly asking, ‘Do you know who I am? I’m Ronnie Pickering.’ An enraged former boxer trying to find his place in a world that doesn’t remember his name"
- Jonathan Higgs on "The End of the Contender" inspiration via NME
"‘The End of the Contender’ is a track that explores the strangely targetless aggression and delusions of grandeur that have seeped into the fabric of modern culture."
- from a press-release via Under the Radar mag
Photo by Steve Gullick
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damonalbarn · 1 year ago
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The Ballad of Darren - Major Albums Reviews
METACRITIC
Louder than War 5/5 ★
Clash Music 9/10 ★
Rolling Stone UK 4/5 ★
Record Collector Magazine 4/5 ★
UNCUT 8/10 ★
NME 4/5 ★
DIY Magazine 4/5 ★
Classic Pop 4/5 ★
MOJO 4/5 ★
The Skinny 4/5 ★
Music Connection 8/10 ★
The List 4/5 ★
The Upcoming 5/5 ★
Unilad 5/5 ★
Riot Mag 10/10 ★
Gigwise 9/10 ★
Load and Quiet 7/10 ★
Gigslutz 5/5 ★
The Rock Revival 5/5 ★
Slant Magazine 4/5 ★
Narc Magazine  4/5 ★
The Quietus 8/10 ★
Concrete Islands
The Mancunion (track by track review)
Wall Street Journal 
Cult Following 
Arctic Reviews
Ultimate Classic Rock
Yahoo
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It was sad how Terrorizer mag just ended. It was the best mag on the shelf; the closest thing to a zine rather than a rag like Kerrang or NME which, in the end, represented the interests of the big labels that wanted to shift units. They were advertisers for albums, singles, tours. Boring, essentially.
I found out about a lot of bands cos of Terrorizer. I used to take photos of the reviews cos I couldn't afford the mag, and obviously nicked the free CD.
There was that bit in the middle as well that was like a proper zine.
They were also responsible for the best review I've ever read too. It was of a Crass reissue. Mint.
I think one thing that set it apart was, in general, the journos seemed to like music, their audience and also stayed in their lane - whereas some of the big hacks at the likes of the NME loved themselves, and put themselves on a pedestal comparable to that of artists when in reality they produced and contributed nothing of value. Their role is in the selling, not the creating. They either pushed it or condemned it with an injustified amount of power that, for some, went to their heads.
But yeah, sad about Terrorizer. They just fucked off essentially. Their owners, probably a big company, maybe one behind other rags too probably did a midnight flit. They didn't tell the customers or the hacks by the looks of it.
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the1975attheirverybest · 9 months ago
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this is deeply parasocial of me but do u think mattys bummed out about pitchfork folding??
cause i was listening to a music review podcast (with some pitchfork writers) who said the the guys were "the kind of losers who read music reviews and kept up with npr (music)" they ment this affectionately ofc
I’m inclined to say no. At least not current, 34 year old Matty. Maybe 2014 Matty would have cared. Fuck you Pitchfork btw. That’s what you get for “villain of the year.” Karma is a bitch, isn’t it?
Anyways, on to the matty thing….all throughout the BFIAFL era (and maybe even since ABIIOR? I’ve got pandemic brain I can’t remember when shit happened anymore), he has been saying that, music reviewers are irrelevant. Especially in the wake of the invention of music streaming. In other words, when he was young, music fans would go and buy the NME, MTV, Pitfork, etc mags and look at what those critics recommend out of the new music that’s coming out, and they’d spend their money on the CDs that those “experts” recommended. But nowadays, you pay like $10-14 a month and you have access to alllllllll the music that has ever existed. Which is why you now see kids listening to Adele but also Lil Nas X or One Direction but also Mahler, The 1975, Taylor, etc. “tastemakers” have ceased to be relevant. They don’t dictate culture anymore. The algorithm does.
He has also said (I can’t remember if it’s in the Zane Lowe thing or not) that he thinks it’s important that we don’t have an important / significant piece of music journalism / music criticism. Like something we can quote off the top of because it’s so iconic or a specific review of an album that we reference all the time. Cuz those things….like, in the grand scheme of things, don’t really matter. But we do have iconic songs and albums.
So yeah in short I think he’s glad that one less phony outlet is calling him a villain. BUT again that’s just me going off of what he’s said. Maybe he’s curled up into a ball sobbing right now who knows.
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sk8rambler · 1 year ago
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pics of the pookies from an nme mag :>
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