C.O.M.A. was a short-lived new-wave-meets-avant-garde band from France. They emerged from the ashes of an equally short-lived punk band called Chaos, which did not put out any music during its lifetime but saw the release of a four-song 7″ in 2018 called White Punks On Slope comprised of tracks recorded four decades earlier in 1977. […]
Tag: New Wave
Space Art – “Play Back” (1980)
“Jeff! Don’t put that record back!” Admittedly I was startled when John over at Volver Records shouted this to me (he had to shout not due to the distance between us, but more out of sheer excitement). I’d only picked it up to look at it because the Roy Lichtenstein-esque cover caught my eye. “It’s […]
P-Model – “In A Model Room” (1979)
The greater Seattle-Tacoma region has some great record shops, though at times if feels like most are more generalists and it would be nice to have a bit more… uniqueness. Fortunately we have Selector Records in Seattle specializing in electronic music, probably the only such store in the state. And most recently we saw the […]
Rokk Í Reykjavík Soundtrack (1982 / 2025)
Where do I even start? The documentary film Rokk Í Reykjavík explores the Icelandic punk music scene of 1982. It is, quite frankly, a gift – the fact that a marginalized scene populated by young outsiders living in a very insular, small society (Iceland’s population in 1982 was just a bit over 230,000 people) was […]
Taugadeildin – “Þegar Dauðir Rísa Upp” (2024)
There are some exceedingly hard-to-find and commensurately expensive Icelandic albums. I’m by no means an authority, but if you give me 60 seconds I can name a handful that have at some point breeched the thousand dollar threshold – things like original pressings of the 1973 prog-rocker Icecoss, Björk’s 1977 self-titled debut (which ironically came […]