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Kingdom FM The Flying Lizards The Flying Lizards were an English band, formed in 1976 in England. Their cover version of Barrett Strong's "Money" featuring Deborah Evans-Stickland on lead vocal reached the UK and US record charts in 1979.
Astro Fang, and the list goes on and on… Big Takeover is pleased as a punch-drunk boxer to host the premiere of Baker’s debut album, Yesterday’s Slime, today on its release date. The LP finds multi-instrumentalist Baker behind the drums and on guitar, bass, synthesizers, and vocals. Taking its cues from a long line of Ohioan heroic art-damaged indie rock guitar bands, the sound here fondly recalls the snotty spark of early indie rock, injected with walls of toy keyboards, and layers of oscillating, bleeping, and blooping synthesizers. Baker’s overactive mind and hyped-up energy run ...
Various Artists Fergal Kinney , March 4th, 2021 09:40 A compilation of space age prog and disco novelties curated by Jon Savage recalls an era when the future was still something to look forward to A recent Sunday broadsheet interview with the former rock critic Nick Kent raised eyebrows for his assertion that he stopped writing about music in 2007 as “there was no mystery, and rock’n’roll needs mystery.” Like Principal Skinner in black leather and a beanie hat, Kent had assessed the landscape and come to the shock conclusion that it was the kids who were wrong. I couldn’t find the...
In the run-up to the second series of Orange UnsignedAct, DiS spoke to new judge, Lauren Laverne, and found her delightful as ever. It's a rare pleasure to interview someone who's an expert at talking up the music they love, and Ms. Laverne was as charming as John Peel, 8 years back. Still, she acknowledged that DiS readers (and she's one herself) might be hard to persuade to tune in. We talked Kenickie, being Punka, the greatness of Mogwai, and what a "baby Aidan Moffat" might be doing on the "X Factor for songwriters"... --- DiS: Hi Lauren, I last spoke to you ten years ago at the