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Album Review: White Hills-So You Are…So You’ll Be

White Hills are one of those bands that are pretty much fearless. They’ve run the gamut on their records over the years from Sabbath gut busters to spaced-out Hawkwind to Tangerine…

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Album Review: Justin Currie – Lower Reaches

It’s an inevitable result of the relentless passage of time that our social circles change as we grow older. As jobs evolve into careers and relationships develop into families, your…

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ALBUM REVIEW: THE POLYPHONIC SPREE – YES, IT’S TRUE

Ten years ago I got hugely into what was being referred to as the ‘Cosmic Americana’ scene, a loose sub-category of American alt-rock that had given us such instant classics…

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Album Review: Medicine – To The Happy Few

When you hear a song like “Long As The Sun” -the opener on Medicine’s excellent new album To The Happy Few– you don’t think that this is a band that…

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Album Review: Whirr-Around

Whirr are lumped into that genre we Generation X oldsters affectionately call “shoegaze”. And while some of my favorite music is lumped into this category, I have to say it’s…

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Album Review: Speedy Ortiz – Major Arcana

You know, I try to be “with it”, and “in the know”. I want to be “up to date” on all the relevant music of today. Even as a kid…

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ALBUM REVIEW: VUVUVULTURES – PUSH / PULL

In the next few weeks I’ll be transitioning from my ‘early 30s’ to my ‘late 30s’. It’s not the end of the world, and 35 isn’t traditionally seen as being…

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ALBUM REVIEW: MATT BERRY – KILL THE WOLF

I came to Matt Berry later than a lot of people. I must have first become aware of him when a friend of mine gave me the DVD of Garth…

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Album Review: Daniel Wohl-Corps Exquis

Do you ever have those really strange dreams where you wake up from them and you still hear noise ringing in your ear from it? Like, you can’t quite recall…

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Album Review: Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record

Eleanor Friedberger’s first words to us on her new long player Personal Record are “I don’t want to bother you”, and I believe her. She seems like the type of gal that…

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