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Classic Compilation: Neil Innes – Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues

When is a compilation not a compilation? When it is an album padded out by a few contemporaneous bonus tracks. Except it isn’t, because those additional b-sides, singles and rarities…

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Two new albums from Emma Kupa

Right from her time with Sheffield-based indiepop favourites Standard Fare, Emma Kupa has been of the most distinctive voices in the country. Both literally, with her plaintive teetering-on-the-edge vocals, and…

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Bright Phoebus – Lal and Mike Waterson

Bright Phoebus had become something of a ‘lost album’ cause celebre, with a growing campaign for this proper re-release over the last few years. Of course it’s difficult for a…

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See: Reading And Leeds Festival Preview 2017

Reading and Leeds Festival is now ONE WEEK AWAY! Here is our definitive guide to who you should check out while you’re there! FRIDAY* Architects Playing their only UK festival…

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INTERVIEW – KIRK BRANDON

Kirk Brandon is post-punk royalty. A key player, from his punk outfit ‘The Pack’ in 1978, then with his bands ‘Theatre of Hate’ and ‘Spear of Destiny’ he’s scorched a…

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Blu-Ray Review: Casque d’Or

Cinema loves a good romance. Even better when this includes a large slice of tragedy, murder, betrayal and melodrama. However, there’s nothing quite so compelling as a big screen love-triangle.…

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Incoming: Everything, Everything

What if you couldn’t touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face…or kiss the boy next door? Everything, Everything tells…

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Album Review: Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley

I must admit, Public Service Broadcasting had me going for a moment there. After their debut album Inform – Educate – Entertain wonderfully demonstrated that Willgoose, Wrigglesworth and Abraham could…

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Incoming: Quest

This intimate chronicle of an African-American family in Philadelphia spans ten years, beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency. Parents Christopher “Quest” Rainey, and Christine’a “Ma Quest” Rainey navigate…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Mourning Forest (Masters of Cinema)

The Japanese have a unique relationship with spirituality, death and nature. In a society grounded in ritual and traditions, a mortal’s passing to the other side is shrouded is mysticism…

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Classic Compilation: Neil Innes – Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues

Two new albums from Emma Kupa

Bright Phoebus – Lal and Mike Waterson

See: Reading And Leeds Festival Preview 2017

INTERVIEW – KIRK BRANDON

Blu-Ray Review: Casque d’Or

Incoming: Everything, Everything

Album Review: Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley

Incoming: Quest

Blu-Ray Review: The Mourning Forest (Masters of Cinema)