Cabbage & Shame
Series 1 Episode 2: The Eastern Front
The episode is available on iTunes and Spotify.
Joined by our friend, Liza Kupreeva, we discuss cold wave as pioneered by Eastern European bands like Molchat Doma, Ploho and Motorama, as well as American counterparts John Maus and Boy Harsher. We try to define what the current cold wave scene entails, covering a bit of history on the origins of rock behind the Iron Curtain along the way. We also take a crack at explaining the differences are between cold wave and the post-punk currently coming out of the UK and ask why cold wave is so bloody popular in Latin America. (Spoiler: we still don’t know.)
Links mentioned in the show:
- Public Practice’s previous band, WALL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLGZF1HgPwo
- How Belarusian Post-Punks Molchat Doma Became a TikTok Meme from Pitchfork: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-belarusian-post-punks-molchat-doma-became-a-tiktok-meme/
Check out the S1E2 playlist! For convenience, the playlist is embedded below.