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  • April 16, 2018 Not Forgotten: Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Nightingales and Bombers

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  • April 14, 2018 A Beginners Guide to Ian Hunter & Mott the Hoople

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  • April 1, 2018 Not Forgotten: The Soundtrack of Our Lives – Extended Revelation For The Psychic Weaklings Of Western Civilization

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Reissue: Led Zeppelin – How the West Was Won

Jon Bryan, March 26, 2018

Classic Album: Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast

Jon Bryan, March 22, 2018

Not Forgotten: Pixies – Surfer Rosa

Jon Bryan, March 21, 2018

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News : Sleep Drop New Album ‘The Sciences’ On 4/20

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Say Psych: Album Review: Father Sky Mother Earth – Father Sky Mother Earth

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Say Psych: EP Review: Medistation – Medistation

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See: The Wood Burning Savages share new video ‘Purple Heart’, plus tour news

Jim F, April 19, 2018
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Charlie Dawe, April 19, 2018
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Classic Album: Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Jon Bryan, April 15, 2018

Iron Maiden are a band whose name I have always known, but it is only in recent months that I have felt the impulse to …

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Classic Album: Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends

Jon Bryan, April 3, 2018

For those that purchased Bookends when it was first released in 1968, it might have come as something of a surprise that a folk-pop duo …

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Reissue: Led Zeppelin – How the West Was Won

Jon Bryan, March 26, 2018
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Classic Album: Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast

Jon Bryan, March 22, 2018
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Not Forgotten: Pixies – Surfer Rosa

Jon Bryan, March 21, 2018
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News : Sleep Drop New Album ‘The Sciences’ On 4/20

J Hubner, April 20, 2018
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Say Psych: Album Review: Father Sky Mother Earth – Father Sky Mother Earth

Le Crowley, April 19, 2018
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Say Psych: EP Review: Medistation – Medistation

Le Crowley, April 19, 2018
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See: The Wood Burning Savages share new video ‘Purple Heart’, plus tour news

Jim F, April 19, 2018
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Track: Drinks – Corner Shops

Charlie Dawe, April 19, 2018
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Incoming: Never Steady, Never Still

Rob Aldam, April 19, 2018
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Blu-Ray Review: The Magic Flute

Rob Aldam, April 19, 2018
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Feature: Vinyl Reissue vs streaming

H Nix, March 23, 2018

With the vinyl re-issue of Annie Lennox’s Diva, me and Spouse decided to put vinyl versus streaming to the test. I’m a simple soul who …

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Playlist: Trembling Bells pick ‘tour bus jammers and tequila slammers’ playlists

Jim F, March 13, 2018

On the verge of the release of seventh album Dungeness on March 30th, we asked Alex Neilson and Lavinia Blackwall from the band to come …

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Soundtrack of our lives: Stephen Jones / Babybird

Jim F, February 28, 2018
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Soundtracks of our lives: Athens based rapper Linqua Franqa picks us her most important records

Jim F, February 23, 2018
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Not Forgotten: Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Nightingales and Bombers

Jon Bryan, April 16, 2018

The sixth and final album recorded by the original Manfred Mann’s Earth Band quartet, Nightingales and Bombers was also released prior to the new line …

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Classic Album: Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Jon Bryan, April 15, 2018

Iron Maiden are a band whose name I have always known, but it is only in recent months that I have felt the impulse to …

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A Beginners Guide to Ian Hunter & Mott the Hoople

Jon Bryan, April 14, 2018
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Classic Album: Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends

Jon Bryan, April 3, 2018
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Not Forgotten: The Soundtrack of Our Lives – Extended Revelation For The Psychic Weaklings Of Western Civilization

Jon Bryan, April 1, 2018
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Latest in Film

EEFF Review: Blue My Mind

Rob Aldam, April 20, 2018
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Incoming: Let The Sunshine In

Rob Aldam, April 20, 2018
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Incoming: Never Steady, Never Still

Rob Aldam, April 19, 2018
FilmFilm Preview

Blu-Ray Review: The Magic Flute

Rob Aldam, April 19, 2018
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Blu-Ray Review: La Chinoise

Rob Aldam, April 19, 2018
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Remembering : Composer Johann Johannsson Dies At 48

J Hubner, February 11, 2018

The last three weekends I’ve barely left my pajama pants, let alone my house. Winter blues? Middle age aches and pains? The hermit transformation nearly …

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Not Forgotten: Rowland S. Howard

Arun Kendall, February 7, 2018

In 1975, Rowland S. Howard wrote a song called ‘Shivers’, one of the best songs ever to come out of Australia and indeed anywhere (in …

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Remembering: Bradford’s Ian H Interview

Jim F, February 14, 2016
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Jon Bryan, August 31, 2014
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Remembering: Archie Shepp interview, 40 Years on from Attica Blues

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    Preston five piece Evil Blizzard return with their first material in two years, a single called ‘Fast Forward Rewind’, out […]

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  • New Track and Tour News: The Church – Another Century

    One of Australia’s living legends and Backseat Mafia’s favourite antipodean exports, The Church, have just released their new single “Another […]

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  • News: The Haunted head back to the studio

    After finishing a successful UK tour together with Meshuggah last month, Swedish Thrash Metallers THE HAUNTED are about to start […]

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    Track: Ladytron – The Animals

    Electro-pop pioneers Ladytron make their long-awaited return with shimmering single ‘The Animals’. Ladytron – Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo, Daniel Hunt […]

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Classic Albums

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Classic Album: Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Jon Bryan, April 15, 2018

Iron Maiden are a band whose name I have always known, but it is only in recent months that I have felt the impulse to …

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Classic Album: Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends

Jon Bryan, April 3, 2018

For those that purchased Bookends when it was first released in 1968, it might have come as something of a surprise that a folk-pop duo …

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Classic Album: Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy

Jon Bryan, March 28, 2018
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Classic Album: Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast

Jon Bryan, March 22, 2018
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Classic Album: Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon

Jon Bryan, March 1, 2018
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Blu-Ray Review: The Passenger

Rob Aldam, March 15, 2018

There is something deep down inside of every one of us which longs to escape our lives and become someone else. To throw off the …

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Blu-Ray Review: The Barefoot Contessa

Rob Aldam, March 9, 2018

It’s no surprise that in an industry powered by ego, narcissism and self-interest, Hollywood is no stranger to making movies about itself. The recent Oscar …

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Blu-Ray Review: Quai des Orfèvres

Rob Aldam, March 5, 2018
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Blu-ray Review: Le Corbeau

Rob Aldam, March 2, 2018
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Blu-Ray Review: Ice Cold in Alex

Rob Aldam, February 13, 2018
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