Rude Bootleg – Cardiacs Live, Reading Festival 1986
Once a year in my adopted home city of Liége, Belgium, there’s a mini festival in a rough-and-ready part of town. One time a local character, sat smoking on his…
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Album Review: Pale Bird – Ten Things Which Aren’t Love
Pale Bird, aka Martin Austwick, or the artist formerly known as the Sound of the Ladies possesses an instantly identifiable folkish indie sound. Part of this is down to Austwick’s…
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Classic Compilation: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Anthology: Through the Years
Tom Petty – a Dylan disciple, a Byrds with harder-wearing tunes, a Bruce Springsteen for the rest of us. Few artists have defined approachable Middle-American rock and roll radio quite…
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Say Psych: Album Premiere: Vuelveteloca – Sonora
Rating: 8/10 Chileans Vuelveteloca caused a stir with their electrifying performance at Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia two years ago, it therefore comes as no surprise that Fuzz Club Records…
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Album Review: Trupa Trupa – Jolly New Songs
Trupa Trupa’s macabre poetic outlook has much in common with contemporary exponents of psychogeography, such as one Iain Sinclair, whose wanderings around London’s orbital networks elicit a meandering prose that…
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Album Review : John Carpenter’s ‘Anthology : 1974 -1998
I believe we’ve entered the John Carpenter renaissance. Five years ago the man was on the bitter end of a film career that had seen better days. To those in…
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Album Review : Primus’ ‘The Desaturating Seven’
When Primus put out their musical tribute to the Gene Wilder classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the aptly-titled Primus & The Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Orchestra back in…
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Album Review: Steve Miller Band – Ultimate Hits
Released as both single and double disc compilations, Ultimate Hits is an odd one. The single disc does everything a compilation should do, giving the listener the feel for the…
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Say Psych: Album Review: New Candys – Bleeding Magenta
Rating: 9/10 Venetians New Candys were formed in 2008 and have gone from strength to strength, increasing their popularity and appeal with every rotation of the sun. Their next offering,…
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Album Review: Richard Thompson – Acoustic Rarities
The new Richard Thompson album, Acoustic Rarities, arrives barely two short months after the release of its sibling, Acoustic Classics Vol II, and is released both separately, and as a…
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