I Dont Know How But They Found Me has a new song, "What Love?", with a music video out on YouTube... for an album, Gloom Division, that won't come out until February. Though for now you can buy just this one song as an MP3 on Amazon.com. What are they doing? If they intend to make their fans buy song after song individually until the album comes ( Read more... )

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Andy Fletcher, founding member and keyboardist of Depeche Mode, has died at the age of 60. I can't help but wonder what this will mean for the band, whose last album was 2017's SpiritI had a dream where I was various members of Schwarz at different times wrecking my way through a tall Eszett building. Destroying massive windows inside a dining hall ( Read more... )

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I haven't posted anything lately, but I've been writing the newest fic in the And Yet, Hayama Hayato Can Still Surprise series and it's going long.

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For the most part I enjoyed "World Enough and Time" and "The Doctor Falls," with their many nods to old-school Doctor Who, some of which I didn't even catch until I read the comments left on the ( Read more... )

Rolling Stone has some good picks on its "100 Best Albums of the Nineties," though of course there are some artists and genres on it I don't listen to. One cool thing is that alternative music in the 90s was often high profile enough that Rolling Stone counted some albums from it, but they didn't get it all so here are some of my choices they didn' ( Read more... )

I was amused: "They're Made Out of Meat" by Terry Bisson

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I am bitterly amused by something else. In the amazon.com reviews for Depeche Mode's latest album, Delta Machine, some reviewers are pissed that they don't still make exactly the same music they did in the 80s. I'm not kidding ( Read more... )

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A bland cover of Depeche Mode's "Strangelove" is being used in a commercial for Gucci's Guilty cologne or perfume or whatever.

But Linkin Park's live rendition of "The Catalyst" for the Video Music Awards sounded promising, though some of the vocals sounded very Foo Fighters to me. I still the hate the voice of Florence + the Machine.