Articles by Michael White

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  The Fall

  Perverted By Language//Bis

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

  Not unlike any blossoming art form, most music videos from the early '80s are fascinating now because they lay bare a culture attempting to...

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  The Pastels

  The Last Great Wilderness

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

  The most enduring and purely instinctual band to emerge from Scotland’s early ’80s pop renaissance, the Pastels — 21 years old this year —...

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  Various

  Rough Trade Shops: Post Punk Vol. 01

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

  At once defiant and submissive, belligerent and keenly focused, celebratory and funereal, post-punk (for lack of a better descriptor) was t...

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  The Guild League

  Private Transport

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2003

  Whether longing for escape, en route to an as-yet-unexplored locale, or pining for the comforts of home, few songwriters understand the rom...

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  Go-Betweens

  Bright Yellow, Bright Orange

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  The reunion in 2000 of Go-Betweens principals Robert Forster and Grant McLennan caused much anticipatory hand-wringing among long-time fans...

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  Theoretical Girls

  Theoretical Record

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  A group much more often heard of than heard, NYC's Theoretical Girls emerged and faded alongside the city's late '70s no wave movement - a...

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  Josef K

  Young and Stupid

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  As quaint a notion as it may seem now, in the early '80s there was a movement of UK guitar bands that felt not only an artistic but a moral...

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  Josef K

  The Only Fun in Town/Sorry for Laughing

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  As quaint a notion as it may seem now, in the early '80s there was a movement of UK guitar bands that felt not only an artistic but a moral...