Blu-Ray Review: Khrustalyov, My Car!
I don’t think any modern director has painted a portrait of a living Hell quite so starkly and disquietingly as Aleksei German. His final film, Hard to be a God,…
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Film Review: Ash is Purest White
It’s easy to forget that until the introduction of economic reforms in 1978, China was a purely communist country. The landscape in 2019 is a far cry from the Maoist…
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Track: Lucy Dacus – ‘My mother and I’
Americans are different. They have Electoral Colleges and TV programmes which come in seasons, and they have ‘holidays.’ This year. American Lucy Dacus is celebrating these ‘holidays’ through a series…
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See: Mark Lanegan Band release new video for Stitch it up, plus new album and UK dates
Out on October 18th is Mark Lanegan’s new album, Someone’s Knocking, via Heavenly Recordings. From it the band have just released a new video for the first single ‘Stictch it…
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Track: Barrie – Geology
Ahead of thw release of te=geur debut album ‘Happy to be here’, out next Friday (May 3rd) via Winspear, Brooklyn five piece Barrie have released a new single ‘Geology’. Of…
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Say Psych: Album Review: Vert:X – Death to False Motorik
After the release of From Now to Now in 2017, Vert:X took a brief hiatus only to return in 2018 with a new line-up. Mainstay Neil Whitehead teamed up with…
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News: Buzzcocks announce details of the reissue of ‘A Different Kind Of Tension’ & ‘Singles Going Steady’.
Domino Records have announced the latest batch of Buzzcocks reissues, A different kind of tension and Singles going’s steady, are coming out on Friday 14th June. It follows the recent…
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Track: MEMORIAM – Shellshock, plus new album news
MEMORIAM – RELEASE NEW TRACK ‘SHELL SHOCK’ – NEW ALBUM PRE-ORDER LAUNCHED The war rages on! Old school metal veterans MEMORIAM are set to unleash their third album, Requiem…
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Track: EXODUS – No Love (Live at Day In The Dirt 1984), plus 40th anniversary news
EXODUS CELEBRATE 40 YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH THE RELEASE OF ‘NO LOVE (LIVE AT DAY IN THE DIRT 1984)’ The formation of the beast we now call EXODUS began in Richmond,…
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Not Forgotten: Sparks – No.1 in Heaven
Career reinventions don’t come much more well executed than Sparks’ recently reissued 1979 album, No.1 in Heaven. While brothers Ronald and Russell Mael had found an enthusiastic audience for their…
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