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Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie Refuses to Dance the “Skibidi”

We are with you on this one Bobby… Primal Scream Frontman, and Jesus and Mary Chain alumni Bobby Gillespie refused to dance the “Skibidi” while appearing as a guest on the…

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Joy Division’s TV Debut on Granada Reports

On September 20th, 1978, Joy Division made their television debut on by performing “Shadowplay” on “What’s On”, a segment that was part of the regional Manchester television program Granada Reports.…

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Watch Joy Division’s Live Appearance on Something Else September 15th, 1979

On September 15th, 1979, Joy Division appeared on youth television program Something Else and performed their iconic single “Transmission”. The episode featured The Jam, Joy Division, and John Cooper Clarke,…

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Ride Make an Appearance on Amoeba’s “What’s In My Bag?”

Creation Records alumni and Shoegaze legends Ride recently made an appearance on famed Los Angeles record store Amoeba’s ongoing video series What’s In My Bag? The video features singer/guitarist Andy…

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When Robert Smith fought Mecha-Streisand

Disintegration is the best album ever! On February 18th, 1998, South Park aired the episode Mecha-Streisand. In the episode, a mysterious triangle inscribed in Anasazi shows up during a fossil…

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Hansa Studios: By The Wall 1976-90 | Watch the 90 min documentary about the important Berlin recording studio

One of the most important studios in music history is Berlin’s Hansa Studios—just around the corner from Potsdamer Platz in West Berlin. This is where David Bowie recorded his masterpiece Heroes,…

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The Smiths’ ‘Panic’ inspires the episode title of Black Mirror’s take on dating apps

I wonder to myself… Although not quite the masterpiece that was Season 3’s San Junipero, the fourth season of Black Mirror offered an interesting take at romance and technology in…

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Drab Majesty perform ‘Dot In The Sky’ and ‘Not Just A Name’ live at the Museum of Surgical Science

Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith

Siouxsie and The Banshees were one of the first post-punk bands to make it big, forming in 1976, and already well onto releasing their second album Join Hands by September…

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Post-Punk references in Stranger Things 2

By now most of you have probably binge watched Netflix’s Stranger Things 2, the second season of the show that is a loving pastiche of 80s sci-fi and horror that…

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