Post-holiday News Recap

By Alex Young on January 2nd, 2012

The last two weeks summarized in bullet form.

Cocteau Twins reissue Stars and Topsoil: A Collection (1982-1990)

By Alex Young on December 27th, 2011

Compilation album re-released as a double vinyl set.

CoS End of Week Recap: June 21-25

By Emma Ramsay on June 25th, 2010

You know, just in case you missed anything.

Cocteau Twins reissue early releases

By Harry Painter on June 24th, 2010

In a five-disc box set no less!

Interview: Simon Raymonde (of Bella Union)

By Tony Hardy on April 30th, 2010

He also happened to be in a lil’ band called Cocteau Twins, too.

Audio Archaeology: Fruitopia Ads

By Cap Blackard on August 2nd, 2009

In 1994 the Coca-Cola company debut a bold, new bottled juice beverage line, Fruitopia. It wasn’t just a fruit drink — it was a concept, a gateway to a higher plain of flavor, the one path to real, ultimate thirst quenching. Coke banked on the early-nineties’ Summer of Love nostalgia trip to market their Snapple-competing drink to Generation X’s wannabe hippie crowd. The result was a striking, psychedelic television ad campaign that made Fruitopia out to be a, like, totally mind-opening beverage, man.

List ‘Em Carefully: CoS’ Top Ten Christmas Songs

By Tim Nordberg on December 24th, 2008

This is a list of Christmas songs. This list is an antidote to people who think the intersection of Christmas and rock music begins with “Jingle Bell Rock” and ends with “Run, Run Rudolph”. This is a list of bands that you know – and might even care about – either chiming in with their [...]