Feature: 5 reasons to buy the forthcoming Gene album reissues
It all happened quite by accident for Gene, who, when they started were going about things quite happily as Sp!n, releasing a couple of single as an album on the…
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Jim F
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Founder of Backseat Mafia, obsesser of music, hoarder of records, player of notes, defender of the unheard, ignorer of genre, writer of words, hater of preconceptions.
News: Morbid Angel reissue Covenant, plus US tour dates
I once read a review of some music that claimed that it was ‘a crass monster, a hideously writhing wounded dragon, which refuses to expire, and though bleeding in the…
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Album Review: A Sagittariun – Dream Ritual
When I was growing up there was this sort of obsession with fast food. McDonalds were springing up everywhere, and if you had to wait for longer than ten minutes…
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Album Review: Harleighblu: Forget me not
If the loss of Amy Winehouse left a soul shaped heart in your record collection, and (as it happens, labelmate) Alice Russell isn’t enough for you, then the answer might…
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New Music: Blessa – Between Times
The American poet John Ashbery once said “Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of…
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Track: Pete Fij / Terry Bickers – Downsizing
I’ve tried to write songs, with no success at all. I can play music all right, but every time I try and write songs, they sound, at best, faintly embarrassing.…
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See: Cold War Kids new video for Tuxedo
I’m not like Cold War Kids. I go days without noticing messages my wife has left me around the house, you know the sort of thing, Can you make sure…
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Track: Eyezon – Rubies and Raindrops
Saying goodbye is always hard. The baseball broadcaster Ernie Harwell found a good way around it. ‘It’s time to say goodbye’ he said ‘but I think goodbyes are sad and…
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EP: Polybius – The arrival
Apparently, Polybius was a Greek historian, who lived a couple of hundred years before the birth of Jesus, and is best known for his bestseller (well, a text that was…
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Track: Peppermint Heaven – The Delicious EP
Sometimes you have to go where your influences are. Not because you’re a fan, or you want to be near them, but because you need to see what made them…
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