shutitdown: taking one for the anecdote

Results tagged “splicetoday”

A number of dance songs were released in Italy in the late 1970s and early 80s, but only a handful of them can truly qualify as Italo "hammers." These up-tempo tunes have driving synths, unintelligible lyrics and bubblegum choruses and instantly cause cheers to erupt on the dance floor when they hit the decks. The hammers are some of the most well-known from the Italo disco canon--far from being obscure within the genre, they are the songs that aficionados will spoon-feed to new recruits as their entry into the world of Italo disco.

...read the rest at Italo Hammers: 10 Bad-Boy Gems of Italian Disco on Splice Today.

My latest piece on Splice Today about that time when I worried I might be a lesbian but then it turned out I was just listening to too much Bikini Kill: Riot Grrrl, Then and Now

1

Shutit


about me
stuff
archives

Links
the odd kitchen
ever undone
ilovethisworld
gritmedia
ytmnd