Artist: coil

From LA to Berlin will feature a series of artists and their gigging habits all the way from LA to Berlin and throughout Europe and America. Our last LA stop with Raíz, two brothers, Vidal and Vangelis Vargas, sexy techno DJs and producers on Droid Behavior whose gigs in a few European clubs including Beghain [...]

Love this Val Denham portrait. It manages somehow to capture an intensity and a normality, a humanity... this is the kind of portrait I'm sure Houellebecq was on about in The Map And The Territory. A rare thing. I found this again here , where there's loads of Coil related images, scans, covers etc. Some of which I've never seen before (and I've looked... a lot ) Glad someone's still fanning the flames. Miss them. There's also a brilliant Cyclobe interview here . I especially like this [...]

Karel Fialka People Are Strange Coil Tainted Love Lene Lovich Lucky Number After a certain age, I lost the ability to mount a defense of certain preferences, tastes, or just things I'm okay with... New wave vocal hysterics are one of them. In my early to mid [...]

Tweet vaso link So after seeing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , with its awkward-yet-awesome title sequence featuring Trent Reznor and Atticus Finch reworking Immigrant Song, I thought back to my youthful obsession with Industrial music. Reznor was an integral figure in this phase of my early teenhood due to the importance of Nine Inch Nails on my musical development. The fact that NIN is central to my musical sensibility is not something that I readily admit. Deny it all I might, Industrial music [...]

"You moved in slow degrees/A sudden memory/You're a Leonard Cohen song" - Better Than Ezra, "Under You" "But I was caught, like a fleeting thought / Stuck inside Leonard Cohen's mind" - Mercury Rev, "A Drop In Time" "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld / So I can sigh eternally" - Nirvana, "Pennyroyal Tea" It's almost unbelievable now to think that we almost never heard Leonard Cohen , the singer. A well-regarded poet from the late [...]

Tracklist: All you are going to want to do is get back there - The Caretaker Poison - Laurie Anderson The Earlie King - Baby Dee Shake That Devil - Antony and The Johnsons Is That All There Is? - Cristina Beg Your Pardon - Crass cerebrus - John Zorn Spoonful - Keiji Haino & Coil

I never actually saw this, only imagined it. Now it's here. I knew where but, well, you never really know where do you?

A big thankyou to Richard at Select Magazine Scans for finding, scanning and sending me this (negative) review of Love's Secret Domain ... I don't agree, of course, with Ted Kessler's review but, in the same way I occasionally read The Mail (or even the NOTW - what ? It's gone ? Why? What happened?) just to get a perspective on what the enemy are thinking, I like reading negative reviews of albums I love, just to prevent my Groupthink at bay in the hope I'll avoid the blog/critical equivalent of The Bay [...]

A big thankyou to Richard at Select Magazine Scans for finding, scanning and sending me this (negative) review of Love's Secret Domain ... I don't agree, of course, with Ted Kessler's review but, in the same way I occasionally read The Mail (or even the NOTW - what ? It's gone ? Why? What happened?) just to get a perspective on what the enemy are thinking, I like reading negative reviews of albums I love, just to prevent my Groupthink at bay in the hope I'll avoid the blog/critical equivalent of The Bay [...]

This is a remix of the review over at Freq . This is a work in progress about a work of progress. A split album in all senses. << >> Split seams... or spilt seems Side A is Debussy's La Mer played on sawtoothed (maybe snaggletoothed) electronics. (((arpeggios that didn't follow the usual waves of the sea, that didn't submit to the ravages of what others thought the sea must sound like, but instead turned [...]

FUTURE SOUNDS PRESENTS IAN MOORE & THE LOSSY COILS & BARE WIRES + THE LOTUS MOONS - SUNDAY JULY 10TH @ BOTTOM OF THE HILL This Sunday night at The Bottom Of The Hill, Future Sounds is getting behind some old friends in IAN MOORE & THE LOSSY COILS to present Ian's return to San Francisco with his new outfit, The Lossy Coils, to celebrate the release of El Sonido Nuevo, on Seattle-based indie Spark & Shine Records. C0-headlining is an act that we adore - BARE WIRES - perfect garage rock from the [...]

FUTURE SOUNDS PRESENTS: IAN MOORE & THE LOSSY COILS with THE WIND and HANDSHAKES FRIDAY JULY 8TH @ THE BOOTLEG THEATER Tonight at The Bootleg Theater, Future Sounds is getting behind some old friends in IAN MOORE & THE LOSSY COILS to present Ian's return to Los Angeles with his new outfit, The Lossy Coils, to celebrate the release of El Sonido Nuevo , on Seattle-based indie Spark & Shine Records. We've put together a lineup of two of our [...]

I love the way Little Annie says the word cigarette; she makes it an onamatopoeic word. This is a little bit like a Rollins rant, a slight detourn of Steven Jesse Bernstein. A No No Woman in the sub-basement of hell. It's not as good as this one of course: ...but you could put it in the same box. Full review of the Larsen album will appear at Freqzine fairly soon.

Texas blues-guitar-slinger-turned-po p-experimenter Moore splits the difference and comes up with his strongest batch of songs in ages. In a world of musical sound-alikes, Ian Moore is one of the few artists out there without an analogue. Sure, he's got his peers, but he's ballsier than Josh Rouse, bluesier than Josh Ritter, grittier than Matthew Sweet, brainier than Ryan Adams, and more muscular than Grant-Lee Phillips. Moore's transformation from trad bluesman to restless pop chameleon maybe most closely echoed Chris Whitley, who passed away in 2005 at age 45, so really, Moore's out...

Great Belgian noise.

Ian Moore continues to move his sound in a different direction.

​As we've reported, Denton's 35 Conferette is well underway, and the first set of reviews have already trickled in. We'll have plenty more for you as the festival continues on over the weekend, so... Continue reading "Good Friday: 35 Conferette, Toadies, Slobberbone, The Civil Wars, ADd+, Big Hud, Drowning Pool, Mint Condition, Ian Moore & The Lossy Coils & More!" >

Seattle-based rocker Ian Moore is a already a studio veteran as he constructs an excellent power pop album. Assisted by bassist Matt Harris (Oranger, Posies) and drummer Kyle Schneider From the raging riffs on "Secondhand Store" about the Austin SXSW festival where every hipster is trying to find a payoff. Another gem here is "Birds Of Prey" is a perfect roots pop song that fans of Old 97s will appreciate. "The album is a retrenching in the face of a diffuse pop culture landscape," says Moore, his jaded take on pop culture is enhanced by some excellent blues riffs added [...]

Kind of companion piece to the post below, though don't think any of this is actually Paris, destroyed or otherwise... In case, you're wondering, Red Birds 1 was here , though now mostly decayed.

Coil - The First Five Minutes After Death

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