Carl Neville  a.k.a. the Impostume, with a new blog, Holding Out For A Hero, that isn't really a blog but is more like a book. A book about the effects on pop culture, especially but not exclusively the movies, of neoliberalism (cheap credit, government debt, deregulation, an economy fueled by financial and real estate speculation, etc).  This cultural economy  Carl analyses / analogises in terms of steroids (artificial growth) and cocaine (artificial triumphalism).  When the economic base is ever more ungrounded, ever more baseless, what happens to the superstructure?

tribal revival



[via the Impostume, whose drawing out of their unwritten manifesto you should read]

the missing link between Bow Wow Wow and funky house

(with a bit of Virgin Prunes and Prince Rama chucked in)

coming soon from Jonny Mugwump's Exotic Pylon Records

apparently Maria & the Mirrors really are fans of Bow Wow Wow

"Mirror, mirror/On the wall/Tell me, who's the fairest of them all?"






"A girl who sings in a faraway place called England"









In 1981 they were my favorite group