Sweeping The Nation — So we start the final furlong of the feature and complete the 1970s with the year disco ate the world. Who could complain? Well, middle America and everyone involved with financing the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band film thinking they were ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Our survey of four decades of alt-pop (like alt-right, but even more white and middle-class) lands on one of the big years - indeed, to Lord Bob Stanley it's the best pop year of them all. Synthpop, paranoia, post-punk and pop weirdness lead the ... more info

Consequence of Sound — Songwriter's solo project is a sardonic bit of lo-fi electronica. more info

BBC News - UK — Is a new play about the politicians who formed the Social Democratic Party in 1981 worth your vote? more info

Consequence of Sound — The 12th season finale of FX's comedy series puts Paddy's Pub in the dark. more info

Impose Magazine — On October 25th, The Faint played Showbox in Seattle. Joining them were Gang of Four and Pictureplane. Photographer Sam Leung nabbed some great shots of all three. The post The Faint, Gang of Four, Pictureplane at Showbox appeared first on Impose Mag... more info

Stereogum — Post-punk heroes the Faint are a particularly Halloween-friendly band, so it’s appropriate that they’ll wrap up their tour tonight at Sokol Auditorium in their hometown of Omaha alongside Gang Of Four and Pictureplane. To send the band off, direc... more info

NME — The Beatles, Gang Of Four and Elliott Smith are among Ocean’s helpers more info

Idolator — Featuring The Beatles, Kendrick Lamar, Gang Of Four, Elliott Smith & more. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Boston punks The Proletariat may get lumped in with other hardcore acts from the era like fellow This Is Boston, Not L.A. contributors Jerry's Kids, Gang Green and The Freeze, but they had an artier sound with a heavy Gang of Four influence... C... more info