O U T S I D E L E F T   stay i n d e p e n d e n t

Songs That Lux Taught Us

"If you can't dig me you can't dig nothin'" - in praise of the late Lux Interior

archive: • • • • •
• •
get the weekly Outsideleft newsletter
by Lake, Editor, London for outsideleft.com
originally published: February, 2009
Garbageman was the coolest pop promo video of all time.
by Lake, Editor, London for outsideleft.com
originally published: February, 2009
Garbageman was the coolest pop promo video of all time.
Love...?
ANCIENT CHAMPION
Ancient Champion - Even For Second Gen Suedeheads, It's Been A Long Shift. On Bandcamp Now!

Pictured above is my membership card to the Cramps fan club from back in the early 1980s. Twenty six years ago I thought the Cramps were quite possibly the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world and that Garbageman was the coolest pop promo video of all time. Sitting here now after being prompted to watch it again on youtube after hearing of the sad death of Lux Interior I realise that, for once, my 16 year old self was 100% correct.  

see more stories from outsideleft's Music archive »»

Lake
Editor, London

the first journalism Lake ever had published was a history of Johnny Thunders for Record Collector magazine, since then he has written for publications including the Guardian, Dazed and Confused, the Idler and more recently, outsideleft.com as you have just seen.

years end
Love...?
ANCIENT CHAMPION
Ancient Champion - Even For Second Gen Suedeheads, It's Been A Long Shift. On Bandcamp Now!
years end
Jason Lewis' 30 LPs of note for 2018
  1. Le Kov - Gwenno
  2. Sharing Waves/Shared.Waves - Cool Maritime
  3. Resistance is Futile - Manic Street Preachers
  4. 1,2, Kung Fu - Boy Azooga
  5. Endless Scroll - BODEGA
  6. Hunter - Anna Calvi
  7. Television Themes - Matt Berry
  8. Music for Installations - Brian Eno
  9. The Beatles (AKA The White Album), Super Deluxe Version - The Beatles
  10. Sunshine (Remixed) - Hector Plimmer
  11. Fenfo - Fatoumata Diawara
  12. Songs of Praise - Shame
  13. Goat Girl - Goat Girl
  14. Singularity - Jon Hopkins
  15. ?????????????????????????
  16. ?????????????????????????
  17. ?????????????????????????
  18. ?????????????????????????
  19. ?????????????????????????
  20. ?????????????????????????
  21. ?????????????????????????
  22. ?????????????????????????
  23. ?????????????????????????
  24. ?????????????????????????
  25. ?????????????????????????
  26. ?????????????????????????
  27. ?????????????????????????
  28. ?????????????????????????
  29. ?????????????????????????
  30. ?????????????????????????

more stories you really could read...

Shame. Goat Girl. Crack. Top Twenty

I'll Give You An Annual Review #19 & #18... Shame and Goat Girl

I'll Give You An Annual Review #20... Fatoumata Diawara

Fatoumata Diawara's Fenfo is one of the records of the year

I'll Give You An Annual Review #21... Hector Plimmer

Hector Plimmer's beautiful neo-soulful 'Sunshine' LP gets A-list DJ's working up a lather for the remixed version

Time's Up

Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley wrote the songs of your life

I'll Give You An Annual Review #22...

22. The Beatles - The Beatles (AKA The White Album), Super Deluxe Version

Cheese Sandwich

Artist and Poet, Chantal, makes her Outsideleft bow with a poem about freedom... you'll know...

I'll Give You An Annual Review 25, 24, 23

Anni Calvi, Eno and Matt Berry are 'bubbling under' the top twenty....

I'll Give You An Annual Review

Jason Lewis listens and listens so we don't have to... his top 30 LPs of the Year...

My Aim Is True

Escaping into Emma Archer's Watercolors
thumb through the ancient archives:
• • • • •

search for something you might like...

sign up for the outsideleft weekly. a selection of new and archived stories every week. Or less.

View previous campaigns.

random reads
• • • • •
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, An interview with Yony Leyser by Paul Hawkins
Paul Hawkins says A Man Within breaks the surface of the troubled and brilliant world of one of the greatest authors of all time.
HEXED... You Will Be
Whitehaven's Hexed cast a hardcore spell of course over Adam and Eve in Birmingham, UK
Our Band Could Be Your Business Model
The story Merge Records makes for more than just a smart, hipster coffee table book, it is a reminder to keep at it.
HME Creations Fashion Show
HME Creations presents a fashion fashion show in support of ACORNS children and family charity
Tav Falco in Your Town
Tav Falco's Panter Burns are live in your town this week, if your town is London or Newcastle
Fast Food From The Moon
Not from the moon precisely but from high on Mulholland Drive where legendary los angeles art figure, John Kilduff set up his original fastfood paint van
Some of our favorite things...
ARCHIVES
years end

OUTSIDELEFT TOP TEN DEBUT LPs • 2018

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel here

CONTRIBUTORS

Alex V. Cook, Ancient Champion, Andy Allison, Annemiek, Belle Plankton, Bruce Bailey, Caiomhin Millar, Chantal, Cheiron Coelho, Chris Connolly, Christian Present, Dan Breen, David Hackney, Debra Ifill, Denni Boyd, Dirty Lillie, Emerson O'Sullivan III aka FancyLad, Erin Pipes, Erin Scott, Eswin21, Guilaine Arts, H.xx, Hamilton High, Henderson Downing, Holly Martins, J. Charreaux, Jason Lewis, Jaycentee, Jennifer Lynn, Joe Ambrose, Julie O, Karl Morgan, Katherine Pargeter, Kelsey Osgood, Kevin McHugh, Lake, Lee Paul, Luke Skinner, Malcolm, Marek Pytel, Mark Piggott, Meave Haughey, Michelle Williams, mindy strouse, Paul Hawkins, Peter Williams, Rene Williams, Rick Casson, Ronan Crinion, Ruby Lake, Ryan 'RJO' Stewart, Seth Sherwood, Shane O'Reilly, Speedie John, Founders: Alarcon & Lamontpaul.

WRITE FOR OUTSIDELEFT

If Outsideleft had arms they would always be wide open and welcoming to new writers and new ideas. If you've got something to say, something a small dank corner of the world needs to know about, a poem to publish, a book review, a short story, if you love music or the arts or anything else, write something about it and send it along. Of course we don't have anything as conformist as a budget here. But we'd love to see what you can do. Write for Outsideleft, do. [SUBMISSIONS FORM HERE]

UNDERWRITE OUTSIDELEFT with your PATRONAGE of these ART MUMBLINGS

Outsideleft exists on a precarious no budget budget. We are interested in hearing from deep and deeper pocket types willing to underwrite our cultural vulture activity. We're not so interested in plastering your product all over our stories, but something more subtle and dignified for all parties concerned. Contact us and let's talk. [HELP OUTSIDELEFT]

TRENDING STORIES
  1. I'll Give You An Annual Review #20... Fatoumata Diawara
  2. Talking About Dan Breen
  3. Horses. Great or Greatest?
  4. Happy Shopper #7: Space Invader
  5. Hollywood Modernist: William Haines
  6. Charles Plymell in Austria
  7. Roots, Culture, Identity Art Exhibition
  8. BIGG. Volume Dealers
  9. So Hop Along Made a Video
  10. Germa Adan and MuHa Celebrate Sanctuary
outsideleft content is not for everyone
  About • Contact • Links • Privacy.Cookies
  ©2004-2018 outsideleft.com