Jon Savage
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OTD 48 years ago Jane Suck and I wrote the post punk electronica manifesto New Musick in Sounds. I’m still very proud of this: we caught something in our fevered queer brains. Note the very early (the first?) use of the term post punk. Articles included Kraftwerk, Eno, Devo, TG, the Residents, Ubu
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
OTD 48 years ago Jane Suck and I wrote the post punk electronica manifesto New Musick in Sounds. I’m still very proud of this: we caught something in our fevered queer brains. Note the very early (the first?) use of the term post punk. Articles included Kraftwerk, Eno, Devo, TG, the Residents, Ubu
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The Ramones album 'Rocket To Russia' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 26th, November 1977.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Ramones album 'Rocket To Russia' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 26th, November 1977.
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26th, November 1977 an article on New Musick by Jane Suck, Jon Savage and Hal Synthetic. Part 1 the Brian Eno interview. "Think it rather as 'texture', Sublimity."
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November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
26th, November 1977 an article on New Musick by Jane Suck, Jon Savage and Hal Synthetic. Part 1 the Brian Eno interview. "Think it rather as 'texture', Sublimity."
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Sounds Front Cover 26th, November 1977 featuring Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk in the New Musick feature.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Sounds Front Cover 26th, November 1977 featuring Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk in the New Musick feature.
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New Musick Part 2 by Sandy Robertson, Jon Savage and Hal Synthetic in Sounds 26th, November 1977 including Throbbing Gristle, The Residents and Kraftwerk
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November 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New Musick Part 2 by Sandy Robertson, Jon Savage and Hal Synthetic in Sounds 26th, November 1977 including Throbbing Gristle, The Residents and Kraftwerk
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CTR on Bandcamp Daily - Thanks to @jonsavage.bsky.social & Erick Bradshaw for the piece - it's just great !" CTR doesn't just fill in the gaps in your record collection" LOVE it .
HERE: daily.bandcamp.com/label-profil...
HERE: daily.bandcamp.com/label-profil...
Caroline True Obsesses Over Compilations So You Don’t Have To
They don’t just fill in the gaps in your record collection, but find treasures you never knew existed.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
CTR on Bandcamp Daily - Thanks to @jonsavage.bsky.social & Erick Bradshaw for the piece - it's just great !" CTR doesn't just fill in the gaps in your record collection" LOVE it .
HERE: daily.bandcamp.com/label-profil...
HERE: daily.bandcamp.com/label-profil...
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I wrote up the great CTR.
Thanks to @jonsavage.bsky.social for fielding some questions.
Thanks to @jonsavage.bsky.social for fielding some questions.
Where to start with Caroline True Records (CTR), your one-stop shop for meticulously researched compilations and obscure archival releases.
Caroline True Obsesses Over Compilations So You Don’t Have To
They don’t just fill in the gaps in your record collection, but find treasures you never knew existed.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I wrote up the great CTR.
Thanks to @jonsavage.bsky.social for fielding some questions.
Thanks to @jonsavage.bsky.social for fielding some questions.
OTD in 1976 I want to see the Sex Pistols for the first time. Notre Dame Hall, just off Leicester Square, being filmed for LWT. A media event - felt Warholian with the lights cameras and people wearing weird clothes acting out. I am at left back with the beret, moving in. Photo by Jonh Ingham
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
OTD in 1976 I want to see the Sex Pistols for the first time. Notre Dame Hall, just off Leicester Square, being filmed for LWT. A media event - felt Warholian with the lights cameras and people wearing weird clothes acting out. I am at left back with the beret, moving in. Photo by Jonh Ingham
Going through some old photos, found this portrait photo by the Kate Simon in the Sounds office Long Acre late 1977
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Going through some old photos, found this portrait photo by the Kate Simon in the Sounds office Long Acre late 1977
Bought OTD in 1969: still my favourite Neil Young album (amid stiff competition). It’s lush LA pop, it’s psychedelic (those layered guitars and heart beats), it’s got Jack Nitzsche arrangements- and to cap it all, The Loner. Wrongly written off, it’s just fantastic in this original version
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Bought OTD in 1969: still my favourite Neil Young album (amid stiff competition). It’s lush LA pop, it’s psychedelic (those layered guitars and heart beats), it’s got Jack Nitzsche arrangements- and to cap it all, The Loner. Wrongly written off, it’s just fantastic in this original version
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5th, November 1977 The sex Pistols album 'Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols' reviewed by Jon Savage. "As rock 'n' roll, can't be faulted."
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November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
5th, November 1977 The sex Pistols album 'Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols' reviewed by Jon Savage. "As rock 'n' roll, can't be faulted."
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An article on Magazine by Jon Savage in Sounds 5th, November 1977. Pics by Kevin Cummins.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
An article on Magazine by Jon Savage in Sounds 5th, November 1977. Pics by Kevin Cummins.
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Singles reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 5th, November 1977 including Buzzcocks 'Orgasm Addict', Devo, Pere Ubu, John Otway and many more.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Singles reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 5th, November 1977 including Buzzcocks 'Orgasm Addict', Devo, Pere Ubu, John Otway and many more.
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RIP Peter Watkins: his film The War Game is the most frightening I’ve ever seen: it changed my life when I saw it at 15. Nothing was the same afterwards. I wrote about it at length in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
RIP Peter Watkins: his film The War Game is the most frightening I’ve ever seen: it changed my life when I saw it at 15. Nothing was the same afterwards. I wrote about it at length in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded
After reading the Daniel Rachel timely book about Rock’s fascination with Nazi symbolism - I went back to my first fanzine London’s Outrage and this is what I wrote in December 1976 after seeing punks wearing swastika and getting freaked out
October 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
After reading the Daniel Rachel timely book about Rock’s fascination with Nazi symbolism - I went back to my first fanzine London’s Outrage and this is what I wrote in December 1976 after seeing punks wearing swastika and getting freaked out
Very pleased to receive this new book by Daniel Rachel - a catalogue of Rock’s flirtation with fascist symbolism that builds into a relentless polemic. Important and timely
October 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Very pleased to receive this new book by Daniel Rachel - a catalogue of Rock’s flirtation with fascist symbolism that builds into a relentless polemic. Important and timely
At the John Swarbrooke Fine Art Denton Welch show. Huge fan of his writing as a late teenager and bought a drawing at the 1985 Castelnau show. In front of the great 1935 portrait by Gerald Leet
October 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
At the John Swarbrooke Fine Art Denton Welch show. Huge fan of his writing as a late teenager and bought a drawing at the 1985 Castelnau show. In front of the great 1935 portrait by Gerald Leet
Really enjoying this memoir from a different time and place: women in a boys’ world, Manhattan when it was full of space, creativity and danger. Highly recommend. Published next year
October 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Really enjoying this memoir from a different time and place: women in a boys’ world, Manhattan when it was full of space, creativity and danger. Highly recommend. Published next year
Very excited to get this great Les Petites Bon-Bons package from Boo-Hooray to celebrate (Bobby Bon Bon) Robert Lambert’s recent appearance at Printed Matter Art Book Fair in NY #anewbohemia
October 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Very excited to get this great Les Petites Bon-Bons package from Boo-Hooray to celebrate (Bobby Bon Bon) Robert Lambert’s recent appearance at Printed Matter Art Book Fair in NY #anewbohemia
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Buzzcocks, Magazine, John Cooper Clarke, The Worst, The Fall, The Prefects, The Negatives and Warsaw's gig at the Electric Circus, Manchester reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 15th, October 1977.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Buzzcocks, Magazine, John Cooper Clarke, The Worst, The Fall, The Prefects, The Negatives and Warsaw's gig at the Electric Circus, Manchester reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 15th, October 1977.
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Bought OTD in 1971: ok one day we had a contest at school: who had the heaviest record? My peers brought in Purple and Sabbath and smirked until I put on Sister Ray - cleared the room. Love this record - the insane bass on White Light, the guitar explosions on Call My Name and still Sister Ray
October 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Bought OTD in 1971: ok one day we had a contest at school: who had the heaviest record? My peers brought in Purple and Sabbath and smirked until I put on Sister Ray - cleared the room. Love this record - the insane bass on White Light, the guitar explosions on Call My Name and still Sister Ray
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Penetration's album 'Moving Targets' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 14th, October 1978.
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October 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Penetration's album 'Moving Targets' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 14th, October 1978.
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Bought OTD in 1972: another proper 1967 psych album. Doesn’t have a first class rep but so what - it’s charming, tuneful, inventive and light. Look At Me I’m You is mundanity transformed by musique concrete, Frozen Dog rocks, People of the Royal Parks a protest against a more regimented time. Dig it
October 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Bought OTD in 1972: another proper 1967 psych album. Doesn’t have a first class rep but so what - it’s charming, tuneful, inventive and light. Look At Me I’m You is mundanity transformed by musique concrete, Frozen Dog rocks, People of the Royal Parks a protest against a more regimented time. Dig it
Bought OTD in 1972: and the future. The hits are on the first side but the second is more experimental and far stranger. Postmodern pop with emotion and sound combinations never heard before - oboe with guitar and synth - culminating in the space age torch song Sea Breezes
October 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Bought OTD in 1972: and the future. The hits are on the first side but the second is more experimental and far stranger. Postmodern pop with emotion and sound combinations never heard before - oboe with guitar and synth - culminating in the space age torch song Sea Breezes