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NEWS: The Durutti Column to release first wax single this century

THE FIRST standalone vinyl single to come from Vini Reilly’s brittle guitar soundscapers The Durutti Column in the 21st century is due to be released this summer – on Vini’s…

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NEWS: Fairport founder Judy Dyble dies aged 71

SAD news has been circulating in the world of folk today that Fairport Convention’s early female lead, and later singer with cult British duo Trader Horne, Judy Dyble, has died…

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ALBUM REVIEW: V/A ‘Come Stay With Me’ – a leg up for a virus-hit Leeds scene

IT NEEDS no reiteration that the ‘rona has devastated the working British music scene: no gigs, no festivals, no instores, no nuttin’. So in a little way, in response to…

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EP REVIEW: Magik Markers – ‘Isolated From Exterior Time: 2020’

CONNECTICUT’s foremost ragged, slacker squall-rockers Magik Markers have descended from their years-long recess and deigned to bless us with the benison of a new four-track, download-only EP for Drag City,…

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TRACK: Romare – ‘The River’: insistent, layered Ninja groove

A ROLLING broken beat steps forth, announces a swaying Afro groove. It’s joined by a stabbing piano figure that seems to pin the deep, oceangoing roll of the break, force…

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NEWS: Kevin Rowland’s majestic folly, ‘My Beauty’ for autumn rerelease

IT CAME adorned with the artist expressing his beauty – in lippy and suspenders, eyes level, straight to camera. It contained an eclectic range of covers, from Merseyside anthem “You’ll…

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SEE: Sarah Walk is unblinking on ‘Unravel’

WATCH the film for LA singer-songwriter Sarah Walk’s single, “Unravel”, and know she is a woman who is both facing up to and able to articulate emotional pain. “Why is…

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SEE: Ganser’s ‘Emergency Equipment & Exits’ explores just walking away

ILLINOIS quartet Ganser have just released their second single of 2020, “Emergency Equipment & Exits”, an exploration of that universal human experience, the sudden, instinctual urge to just up and…

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TRACK: Come for a dip with Snow Coats’ ‘Pool Girl’

BURGEONING Oxford indie imprint Alcopop! Records – having recently secured the services of angular Bristol geniuses Home Counties – has brought another very fine little band into the fold in…

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SEE: Fenne Lily -‘To Be A Woman Pt. 2’: whispered caution, guitars fizzing

BRISTOL is a city that has really pulled its weight in modern musical culture; there’s no need to list all those paradigm-shifters that have come from the Avon Valley. One…

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