Tuesday Ten: 310: Tracks of the Month (August/September 1997)
A double dose of 1997 this month, after Infest (and of course the writing of Memory of a Festival: 028 that followed it) took up my time at the end of August.
Tag: KMFDM
Into the Pit: 199: KMFDM – O2 Academy Islington, N1 – 09-September 2017
The past few weeks have, in one of those odd quirks of scheduling, seen three of the big names in industrial and goth music all come through London in a short space of time. All three are in different places.
Tuesday Ten: 306: When Worlds Collide
The influence of classical music upon “popular” music is often forgotten, perhaps as the evolution through what became jazz and blues into rock and beyond is a complex one that took quite some time – indeed it took most of the twentieth century, as the exceptional The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross explains in […]
Welcome to the Future: 008: Music news round-up 18-August 2017
Welcome to the third weekly round-up of new music, forthcoming release announcements, upcoming gigs and clubs, and other things that might be worthy of note within the realm of music that amodelofcontrol.com covers.
But Listen: 154: KMFDM – HELL YEAH
Thirty-three years, twenty albums, countless singles, a few live albums, various re-issues. Various record labels (most notably associated with WaxTrax! and then later Metropolis (North America) and Dependent (Europe)). And, broadly, one instantly recognisable sound, the Ultra Heavy Beat that blusters in on industrial beats and rock guitars, but somehow sounds like no-one else.
Tuesday Ten: 296: Tracks of the Month (May 2017)
It is, then, the week of another bloody election this week here in the UK, and there has been distinct signs of just how fucked off everyone seems to be with it across the coverage of it (not helped by the uptick in terrorist attacks in the country in recent weeks). Fuck knows what is […]
Tuesday Ten: 264: Tracks of the Month (June 2016)
These are turbulent times in the UK at least at the moment – with the prospect of choppy waters elsewhere too in 2016 – and it has rather been sapping my will to write, among other things.
Tuesday Ten: 263: Tracks of the Month (June 1996)
Part five of my monthly rundown, across this year, of tracks from 1996 that broadly, I still love now.
/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 […]
Tuesday Ten: 215: Tracks of the Month (October 2014)
A bit later than usual – Whitby and general life issues rather got in the way – and this of course will be the last new tracks roundup of 2014, as I’ll be doing the best of 2014 lists from early December as usual. And this is the first of two posts this morning.
Tuesday Ten: 208: Money Money Money
After a mainly awful day at work today, it has been a useful reminder of why, really, I work: money.
/Countdown/2013 /Disappointments
Regular readers will be well used to this by now – at the end of each year, I round up my year in music over the course of successive weeks. This year there will be five posts, the dates of which are shown below. I’ve not had the time to write as many reviews as […]
Into the Pit: 168: Recent Gigs – review catch-up
The last month has been a really busy one, and despite attending a number of gigs in that period, I’ve not had the chance to get my thoughts on online for most of them so far. So – as I’m never going to be able to catch up if I don’t do this – here, […]
But Listen: 128: KMFDM – KUNST
Recent KMFDM albums have followed something of a pattern, and not just in their release dates – i.e. in the Spring, every other year, for ten years now. All these years of "conceptual continuity" have resulted somewhat in a band resting on their laurels a bit, and most criminally re-using the same old ideas time […]
/Countdown/2011/Tracks
This is the eighth year that I’ve done a rundown of the music released in the past year – and every year I seem to end up with more material to cover.
Into the Pit: 113: KMFDM – Live at Islington – 19-November 2011
A bit of a late start for me on this one – my third gig attended in a week – and as a result I missed the first two support bands, and indeed only just got into the venue in time to see most of the Global Citizen set. I’ve heard a few positive things […]
But Listen: 111: KMFDM – WTF?!
After celebrating 25 years of “conceptual continuity” in 2009-2010, with the associated tour and best-of album, as we headed into 2011 the first signs of the next stage of KMFDM were revealed, in the guise of a couple of singles, and now a new album under the moniker of WTF?! – continuing with the age-old […]
Tuesday Ten: 127: Tracks of the Month (March 2011)
Where on earth is time going? Time once again for my usual monthly roundup of great new songs.
Tuesday Ten: 121: Tracks of the Month (January 2011)
Playlists:  Spotify Time for the first roundup of new music to recommend for 2011 – it’s my Tracks of the month January 2011.
Tuesday Ten: 114: Tracks of the Month (September 2010)
A day earlier than usual, here’s my usual roundup of tracks new and old that I really like right now: