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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · 3d

Designing Factory: An Interview with Chris Mathan By Audrey J. Golden

louderthanwar.com/designing-fa...

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#joydivision #iancurtis #UK #postpunkmusic #postpunkband #manchester #factoryrecords #neworder #bernardsumner #stephenmorris #peterhook #peterhookandthelight #petersaville #England

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · 6d

INTERVIEW 🐦‍⬛ Destroy podcast host Richard Smith interviews Peter Saville CBE, art director and graphic designer

Saville discusses his career, post punk and designs: open.spotify.com/episode/53T8...

#neworder #joydivision #petersaville #factoryrecords #manchester #postpunk #design #england #uk

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · 9d

Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert join Tim Burgess to discuss “Power, Corruption & Lies” by New Order

open.spotify.com/episode/7o7k...

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#joydivision #UK #postpunkband #postpunk #factoryrecords #neworder #bernardsumner #stephenmorris #peterhook #peterhookandthelight #petersaville #timburgess

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · 17d

Tim Burgess is joined by Jim Kerr & Charlie Burchill @simplemindsmusic.bsky.social to go through their 1985 album “Once Upon a Time” track by track

Celebrate the stories behind the music on this album’s 40th anniversary

open.spotify.com/episode/1PwF...

#simpleminds

A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · 20d

@fontainesdublin.bsky.social find reinvention in kindness and dystopia

“Romance” is an essay of mosh-pit guitars careening into baggy desires and stringed visions of mercy

www.pastemagazine.com/music/fontai...

#FontainesDC #PostPunk #indierock #Dublin #ireland #art #grianchatten #alternative

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · 21d

Classic Pop revisits “Music for the Masses” by @depechemode.com - an adventurous, hedonistic drive into unchartered territory

www.classicpopmag.com/features/cla...

@muterecords.bsky.social released the LP on September 28, 1987

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#depechemode #newwave #postpunk #newwavemusic #art #music #vinyl

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · 27d

An in-depth interview with late photographer Brian Griffin about his time with @depechemode.com and his album cover work for “Speak & Spell” available in the link below:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFSs...

@muterecords.bsky.social released “Speak & Spell” on October 5, 1981.

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Oct 3

Making an album has never been easy for
@radiohead.wastehq.social

2007’s “In Rainbows” may have been their toughest. Tap the @rollingstone.com link below for the story

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

#radiohead #thomyorke #inrainbows #jonnygreenwood #philselway #colingreenwood #edobrien

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Sep 28

Slowdive’s Nick Chaplin and Christian Savill discuss the band's fifth LP, “everything is alive”

mixdownmag.com.au/features/wer...

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@slowdiveofficial.bsky.social

#slowdive #shoegaze #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylcommunity #art #music #vinylcollector #everythingsalive #souvlaki #justforaday

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Sep 27

Based on new and exclusive interviews, “Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division and New Order” captures vivid moments that tell their tale. Episode 2 describes the birth of “Unknown Pleasures”

open.spotify.com/episode/7C2w...

#joydivision #iancurtis #unknownpleasures #neworder #uk

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Sep 21

Curious Creatures podcast catch up with @mikiberenyi.bsky.social and discuss her memoir, “Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success,” first published by @bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social in 2022.

curiouscreaturespodcast.com/episode-51-m...

#mikiberenyi #lush #shoegaze #books #memoir #newbooks

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Sep 20

Thom Yorke reflects on making “Cutouts” by @thesmiletheband.bsky.social - a record that gleefully flits between styles and moods.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10...

#thesmile #radiohead #jonnygreenwood #tomskinner #art #artrock #England #UK #Cutouts #Wallofeyes #alightforattractingattention #kidA

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Sep 16

Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall - the ripples of inspiration that came as a result are incalculable.

www.theguardian.com/music/2011/j...

#sexpistols #punk #johnnyrotten #johnlydon #stevejones #paulcook #postpunk #joydivision #thesmiths #morrissey #factoryrecords #thefall #manchester #UK

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Sep 14

🐦‍⬛ INTERVIEW

@tearsforfearsmusic.bsky.social joins @tim-burgess.bsky.social for a track by track discussion of “The Hurting”

Mercury Records released the LP on March 7, 1983

open.spotify.com/episode/5XN4...

#tearsforfears #rolandorzabal #curtsmith #music #newwave #vinyl #rock #thehurting

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Sep 9

O P I N I O N 🐦‍⬛ T A P T H E L I N K B E L O W

Despite not being a proper album, “Hatful Of Hollow” possesses a freshness and immediacy that was lost elsewhere in #thesmiths discography, argues Toby Manning @thequietus.com

thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

#Morrissey #JohnnyMarr #UK #Manchester

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Sep 9

INTERVIEW 🐦‍⬛ TAP THE LINK BELOW

#BrettAnderson talks to @dazeddigital.com about “Antidepressants,” the new LP by @suedehq.bsky.social

www.dazeddigital.com/music/articl...

#Suede returns with their tenth studio album due for release on September 5, 2025, via BMG

#London #England #UK #Britpop

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Sep 3

BOOKS 🐦‍⬛ TAP THE LINK BELOW!

#simpleminds Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill to publish long awaited book, “Our Secrets Are The Same,” 2 October 2025.

Joint memoir by @simplemindsmusic.bsky.social founding members traces the band’s rise to international fame.

www.classicpopmag.com/news/jim-ker...

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Aug 30

INTERVIEW 🐦‍⬛ TAP LINK IN BIO!

#JohnSquire talks to Guitar World’s Henry Yates about classic riffs, career-ending injuries, what caused #TheStoneRoses reunion to fizzle out, and why music keeps pulling him back in

www.guitarworld.com/features/joh...

#StoneRoses #Manchester #England #UK

A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Aug 29

ART 🐦‍⬛ VISIT THE LINK BELOW!

Check the link below for the BBC article where @microdotcreative.bsky.social art director Brian Cannon, explains the story behind Oasis “Definitely Maybe” album cover

www.bbc.com/news/article...

#liamgallagher #noelgallagher

A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Aug 28

🐦‍⬛ LIVE

Following a hugely successful North American Get Ready tour @peterhookthelight.bsky.social have announced they will return to the US. Check the link in bio for the full @bassmagazine.com.web.brid.gy story.

bassmagazine.com/peter-hook-t...

#peterhook #peterhookandthelight #neworder

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Aug 23

🐦‍⬛ VISIT THE LINK BELOW!

#TheSmiths #MikeJoyce to publish autobiography, The Drums

pitchfork.com/news/the-smi...

The Drums is due for release on November 6.

#NewBooks #Book #Author #PostPunk #Memoir #Autobiography #Art #Artist #Morrissey #JohnnyMarr #AndyRourke #NewWave #Rock #England #UK

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Richard Smith interviews #AndyMcCluskey, an artist who “pushed back against the guitar-noodling prog-rock of the day and set out to make his dream of #OrchestralManoeuvresintheDark a reality.”

destroypunkpodcast.com/s1e7-andy-mc...

#PostPunk #Punk #NewWave #SynthPop #UK

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Richard Foster @thequietus.com considers Marvin The Paranoid Android, the charnel house-like plays of Jacobean England and the owl of Athena (and speaks to @willsergeant.com) while writing about @bunnymen.com oft-misunderstood LP, “Porcupine”

thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Aug 13

VISIT THE LINK BELOW

#LouiseWener and #TimBurgess discuss “The It Girl” by #Sleeper:

open.spotify.com/episode/7JSQ...

Cheers!

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A MOST CURIOUS CROW @amostcuriouscrow.bsky.social · Aug 13

VISIT THE LINK BELOW!

#RichardSmith interviews #MuteRecords #DanielMiller who channeled a lifelong passion to help artists and musicians survive and thrive

The rise of technology inspired Miller to use makeshift instrumentation to make music more urgent and real

open.spotify.com/episode/26iQ...

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