Tagged: forcedexposure

Dear 20JFG, The banality of familiarity has kicked in. Sorry. Those simple stereotypes of home are becoming more believable the more the memory of the complexity fades. It's all rock , new media companies and hen nights, no? No? The music we post always has a pretty fuzzy chronology and we've always had an equally fuzzy approach to reading press releases. For the last week or so the baroque Italian-English of La Bambola Del Dr Caligari has been soundtracking [...]

• La Bambola Del Dr Caligari - Deep Skanner

Filed under: Around the World It's said that only a thousand people bought the Velvet Underground 's debut album when it was first released in 1967 -- but every one of them started a band. Veneno may be the Andalusian Velvet Underground, at least in that regard. Coming a decade later, Veneno's lone album didn't bear much musical relation to the VU, but it marked a similar place in the history of Spanish rock, a revolutionary, raw and progressive take on flamenco traditions that barely made a blip on [...]

• Veneno - La muchachita
• Veneno - San José de Arimatea

So what was your entre into the world where denim, leather n' demonology reign supreme? Where you adore the goat and sway to the symphony of deee-struction? Every man (or woman) has a tale to tell. Here's mine. You're gonna hear a lot of names you might be unfamiliar with, especially if you're a member [...]