Tuesday Ten: 230: Tracks of the Month (April 2015)
Another month, another round-up of the various new music that has come my way recently.
/Tuesday Ten/229/It’s Getting Goth In Here
It is the 21st anniversary of the Whitby Goth Weekend this coming weekend, so let’s go Goth for this post. The argument will rage until the end of time as to what counts as Goth music nowadays, by the way, and I’m sure it could well flare up again as a result of this post! […]
Tuesday Ten: 228: Fake Bands In Film and TV
It’s a rather different Tuesday Ten this week. In honour of the twentieth anniversary of the still-brilliant Empire Records – and that it’s Rex Manning Day tomorrow (08-April), the day the film is set on – I’m looking at bands that don’t exist. Or, at least, were made up for each film in question…
Tuesday Ten: 227: Tracks of the Month (March 2015)
Another tough month, balanced out by a number of good moments that all-in reduced the amount of time I had to write about music. I’ve consumed more than enough (and been sent a fair bit, too), mind, and the result was this weeks Tracks of the Month, where I actually had far more than ten […]
Talk Show Host: 012: Jesse McClear (Heavy Water Factory)
Thanks to the assistance of a mutual friend, I was able to get in touch with Jesse McClear of Heavy Water Factory – for me, at least, 2015s most surprising industrial (actually, music in general) return.
/Tuesday Ten/226/Who Let The Dogs Out?
It was Crufts over the weekend, and I have a partner who is obsessed with Dalmatians. So what else to write about this week, but dogs…but I had to paws for a while to get enough songs (with thanks to Daisy and Alex for assisting there).
Tuesday Ten: 225: Tracks of the Month (February 2015)
It’s been a busy few weeks, and while compiling the list this week I realised that I’ve been posting regularly for the first time in a while. There won’t be so much in March, mind – I’m away on holiday for a week shortly and other things are likely to get in the way too. […]
Into the Pit: 187: Adventures in Audio-Visual – Randolph & Mortimer and Public Service Broadcasting Live
This week, within four days, I’ve seen two bands live that very much rely on the visual as much as the audio. One is a fiercely political industrial project taking it’s first steps into the live arena, the other is a band dedicated to meshing old informational and propaganda videos with taut post-punk rhythms, and […]
/Tuesday Ten /224 /Teenage Kicks
The teenage years – the hinterland between childhood and adulthood, where many find their voice, start to shape their own future and begin to form their musical and cultural tastes. The whole idea of the teenager, though, has changed over time, frequently thanks to cultural shifts and trends, and often there is an image of […]
Tuesday Ten: 223: Break Stuff – Reappraising Nu-Metal?
Judging on the reaction to my linking last Friday to this article on my Facebook page, it appears that a particular subset of my friends have a past that involved dancing badly to Nu-Metal. So, by popular demand, here at amodelofcontrol.com we’re going to have a look at some of the much-maligned genre, which actually […]
Talk Show Host: 011: Marc Heal
Took a bit of time to arrange this one, but I’m thrilled to be able to post a recently completed interview with Marc Heal. For many readers, his name will instantly be recognisable. But for those who it isn’t…Marc used to front industrial/techno terrorists Cubanate, and was also involved with C-Tec, Ashtrayhead and PIG in […]
/Tuesday Ten/222/KMFDM/Thirty Years of The Ultra-Heavy Beat
During 2014, KMFDM turned thirty years old. One of the great survivors of industrial music, their often guitar-heavy take on industrial certainly gained them a wider audience than perhaps they would have otherwise have reached, but frankly, their ear for a tune and monstrous choruses probably helped too. Saying that, though, they have their fair […]
DJ: Guest: 080: Carpe Noctum – 07-February 2015
DJing at Carpe Noctum, with Be My Enemy, SYD.31 and Petrol Bastard playing live too.
Tuesday Ten: 221: Tracks of the Month (January 2015)
As always as we enter February, it feels like an eternity since I last did a Tracks of the Month post, and it was, I guess – the last one was on 11-November. In the time since Christmas, too, there has been a glut of new music starting to appear, and here are ten of […]
DJ: Guest: 079: Monster Truck – 29-November 2014
A return to the club playing industrial and metal, and the crossover inbetween.
Tuesday Ten: 220: Nightclubbing
The end of a few more long running club nights recently got me thinking about what is left, if anything, of my clubbing past – and a post on my Facebook page resulted in over 200 comments with readers sharing all kinds of memories and events from their pasts.
/Tuesday Ten/219/Outros
One of the interesting things about writing this series is that occasionally one post (and not necessarily at the time of writing it!) will inspire another, and then will have me wondering how I didn’t think of it before.
/The Rearview Mirror/005 /Garbage/Garbage
The dawn of a new year, and once again a few posts have appeared from both musical and so-called clickbait sources noting the albums that are turning twenty years old during 2015. For many of my friends and I, this is starting to hit hard – many of these are the albums that we were […]
Tuesday Ten: 218: 2015 and upcoming music
The start of a new year, so it is time for my usual round-up of music coming our way soon (here is last years). Sources are, as usual, a selection of direct band and label sources and press reports, and are believed correct at the time of writing.
/Countdown/2014/Gigs
This year: 170 bands, 57 days worth of gigs. Five festivals, three countries, eight cities/towns. From venues holding thousands to those holding tens. Due to personal issues and, frankly, being too damned busy for much of the year, I didn’t get to write about many of them aside from the festivals, so writing this list […]