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Albums revisited: Nitzer Ebb’s Ebbhead at 25: The only way from here is down. By: Peter Marks After years and years of toil out there in the trenches, Bon Harris and Douglas McCarthy hit the prime time with their fourth effort ‘Ebbhead’. [wp_ad_camp_2] While their following album would be given an ironic title by the band […]
Albums Revisited: Adam Ant’s ‘Wonderful’ at 20: Peter Marks celebrates the brief career revival of the New Wave icon. By: Peter Marks When people think of Adam Ant invariably one of two albums are brought up: ‘Friend or Foe’ and ‘Strip’. It is easy to forget how many other releases he has out (especially the […]
Albums Revisited: The Church’s ‘Gold Afternoon Fix’ At 25-Welcome to the gilded cage. A look back at The Church’s underrated 1990 ‘Starfish’ follow-up. By: Peter Marks By the time 1990 rolled around The Church were at the peak of fame, they’d gotten high up in the charts with “Under The Milky Way” and ‘Starfish’ had […]
Albums revisited: Echo and the Bunnymen’s Reverberations at 25-A tremor in the wires By: Peter Marks After scaling the dizzying heights of fame what’s a band to do? [wp_ad_camp_2] In the case of Echo and the Bunnymen that answer was to split up. At least that’s what their frontman intended to have happen, everyone else […]
Albums Revisited: The Cult’s ‘Sonic Temple’ Turns 30. It was the album that made the Cult megastars, but it almost did them in. Last year the Cult embarked on the Electric 13 tour, where they played their rough-edged 1987 classic rock opus from start to finish. Click here for my Electric 13 Concert Tour Review […]
Albums Revisited: Radiohead’s ‘Pablo Honey’ Turns 25. The band disowned it, and their fans ignore it. It’s their loss, because ‘Pablo Honey’ in an underrated gem. *This post was originally published in 2013. It has been updated. I recently saw Thom York and Flea perform on The Daily Show with their new band Atoms For Peace. […]
