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Droppin’ Knowledge: Jiyu Purp Creates Spiritual, Life Affirming Hip Hop on His Album Earth is Ours – Interview & Review

Last month, Dallas, Texas based hip hop artist Jiyu Purp released his first long player, Earth is Ours, an album suffused with spirituality and positivity, but one that hits hard,…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz

’ Sebastian Murphy dreams about everyone hating his guts. A lot. “I kept having this recurring nightmare where my mom was crying and my friends were all pissed off at…

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ALBUM REVIEW – MATTHEW SWEET – CATSPAW.

Those of us around a certain age may fondly remember the college rock movement of the early-to-mid ‘90s. Lord knows I do. For a period of time, power-pop became fused…

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News: The classic albums ‘Submarine Bells’ and ‘Soft Bomb’ by The Chills are now re-issued through Flying Nun Records

It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of the New Zealand indie music scene ever since the heady days of the eighties, with the Dunedin music scene, spearheaded by the…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West – ‘Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West’

Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West is like a finely reduced sauce; it packs an awful lot of psychedelic flavour and fun into a fat half-hour. Afrobeat, surf rock, funk, straight psych, country psych, jazz, shoegaze, are all seep through a lovely record with three of four moments of proper excellence and a lot of red-eyed, 1am lava lamp big-grinned fun besides. It's good to see him back.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Jim Ghedi – ‘In The Furrows Of Common Place’: a bold, proud album of working class folk

In The Furrows Of Common Place is a bold and proud album of working class folk. It bears witness with an unflinching melodious anger - it's the first essential album of 2021

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ALBUM REVIEW: John Dwyer, Nick Murray, Brad Caulkins, Tom Dolas and Greg Coates – ‘Witch Egg’

There's so many ideas in Witch Egg, from so many genres and eras: mod, krautrock, free jazz, even acid jazz; they're arrived at, explored at once, captured, moved on from. It speaks much of the restless creativity at the heart of this, John Dwyer. It's quite a journey for a fringe music head

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EP: VayFlor – Too Far Gone

From the relatively young dance label ‘Somma’, comes their next EP ‘Too Far Gone’, from producer VayFlor and features two original tracks and a remix. Deep, Melodic or Progressive House,…

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Album Review: Still Corners release the majestic album “The Last Exit”: a magical journey of mystery, romance and isolation.

In ‘The Last Exit’, Still Corners have perfectly captured a magical ethereal desert landscape in the spacious layers of their songs. Crystal sharp guitars, soaked in reverb and mystery, punctuate…

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Album Review: Buck Meek – Two Saviors

Big Thief guitarist presents a new album of (mostly) quiet Americana lullabies

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