Topic: The Jesus and Mary Chain
PRIMAL Scream's Bobby Gillespie has teamed up with punk poet Mark Stewart for a new song and video directed by his old bandmate Douglas Hart...
Recently Bertz collected and shared a bunch of the staff's favorite songs from 2011 on a Spotify playlist. I didn't think that I had heard a lot of...
0 . High: What an incredible year for live music. You can still easily identify the 40,000 people who saw Paul McCartney tear through five decades...
We all read and we all listen to music, but what's not often acknowledged is that we often do both at the same time, or at the very least let our...
The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock group started by brothers |Jim and William Reid in 1984 . Though they broke up in 1999 , they officially reunited the band in 2007 .The Jesus and Mary Chain became notorious in their ...
Swirling, droning, flowing, hazy, the building up of an impenetrable wall of sound. Not much else that I?d ever initially heard for the first time had been so embedded within; submerged, but waiting for me to catch on. Emerging from the ...
Standout Track: No. 2, "New Visions," which buries Italian disco in Jesus and Mary Chain-style fuzz, damp synthesizers, and found-sound flourishes. Musical Motivation: The couple had been listening to "a bunch of old live Velvet Underground material" while working on the single ...
For a while, it made Jesus and Mary Chain-style art pop with harsh beats?the group, more or less, was making in D.C. the same stuff a Place to Bury Strangers was making in New York. That doesn't exactly make ...
We've devoted a lot of words on this blog to what Fan Death Records hates about D.C.-and less, for better or for worse, on what the Maryland label loves.. Those, combined with the harsh-light ambience and laconic sequenced beats ...
Aspects of the topic Psychocandy are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Influenced by the Sex Pistols and the Velvet Underground as well as by the Beach Boys and Phil Spector-produced 1960s pop, the Jesus and Mary Chain created an arresting ...
