Jeanette Leech
Writer and Contributor at Freelance
author: fearless / seasons they change contact: [email protected] https://t.co/FJWlkPZNf1
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3 weeks ago |
thequietus.com | David Keenan |John Doran |Jeanette Leech
Glasgow’s Volcanic Tongue record shop and mail order company was in business during the period 2005-2015. It specialised in self-released, small-run experimental music; its stock teemed with unfamiliar names, and encouraged the adventurous music fan into new terrain.
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1 month ago |
thequietus.com | Luke Turner |Jeanette Leech
When Elastica’s second album The Menace was released in April 2000 few people – least of all the band – really seemed to care.There was one single, a short tour and a handful of promotional activities. Typical of the tone was a knackered-looking Justine Frischmann appearing on pop TV show The O-Zone, saying the album“was something we just had to get over, and get out of the way to move on.”There was no irony or ambiguity in the title The Menace.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Jeanette Leech
4 hours agoRaquel Welch Was Told to Change Her First Name So She Wouldn't 'Come Off as Being Hispanic'Before there was Selena Quintanilla, Jennifer Lopez and Emilia Pérez stars Zoë Saldaña and Selena Gomez, there was Raquel Welch, For a brief period in the 1960s, Welch was one of the biggest stars on the planet. And she just happened to be Hispanic, the daughter of Armando Carlos Tejado, who was born …10 hours agoIs SAVE Dead?
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Jan 9, 2025 |
thisisdig.com | Jeanette Leech
“For me the all-time challenge is not to write a happy, pretty melody but to get as near as you can to people’s hearts through a piece of plastic,” Rod Stewart said back in 1976. “If you can do that it’s the greatest achievement of all time. I don’t want to make melodies that someone can whistle down the street.
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Nov 14, 2024 |
thisisdig.com | Jeanette Leech
From Charley Pride to Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, Black American artists have been an important and imaginative voice in country music: even if that voice has sometimes met resistance from the Nashville establishment.
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RT @theQuietus: 'Volcanic Tongue's era feels more distant than it actually is. The time of lovingly packaged CD-rs and cassettes which were…
I wrote of the new @reversediorama compilation, Volcanic Tongue, and the beautiful era of non-instant listening and cheap CD-rs for @theQuietus ❤️ https://t.co/SyBGNxNkXn
RT @theQuietus: Jeanette Leech reclaims the legacy of Elastica's underrated 2nd album from prurient mutterings about drug addiction and the…
