post-punk Archive
25 Oct 2018
Album Review: The Fall – I Am Kurious Oranj
The Fall were never most people’s idea of a commercial group. They didn’t have the jangling melodicism of the Smiths, nor the sophisticated funk groove of Gang of Four. But […]
11 Sep 2018
Album Review: The Fall — 45 84 89 A Sides
The Fall are one of those groups that somehow largely escaped my notice, until now. I think I first heard a song by the Fall sometime in the late 1980s. […]
03 Jan 2017
Album Mini-review: Sshh — Issues
File next to: The Pretenders, Transvision Vamp Zak Starkey has already had a fascinating career. The son of Ringo Starr, Zak was given drum lessons by “uncle” Keith Moon, made […]
23 Dec 2014
Best of 2014: Books
Musoscribe isn’t strictly a music features, interviews and reviews blogzine; because I am constantly reading at least one book – and because as often as not, it’s a music-related book […]
24 Nov 2014
Book Review: Who Killed Mister Moonlight?
David J (Haskins) came to fame as a member of goth-rockers Bauhaus, and went on to success with Love and Rockets, solo releases and sideman duties with such greats as […]
01 Aug 2014
EP Review: The Fauntleroys — Below the Pink Pony
I can’t find the specific quote I’m looking for at the moment, but there’s an entry in Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopedia (the original 1969 edition, not the lousy and lifeless […]