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Meet: The Scaffold’s Mike McCartney on the reissue of the McGough & McGear album

Most novelty number ones are rubbish but a notable exception to this rule is The Scaffold’s flower power classic Lily The Pink which still raises a happy smile five decades…

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Live: Bowling For Soup, Leeds O2 Academy, 3.2.16

‘Hey, we’re Bowling For Soup, the band you can wave at!’ As the time gets to about February, the excitement of Christmas has subsided somewhat and spring is just around…

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Track: Alfred Hall – Safe and Sound

Norwegian duo Alfred Hall might be a new name to some of us here in the UK, but the that’ll more than likely change very soon with the release of…

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Track: Dear Tatiana – Staycaytion

Orlando, Florida quartet Dear Tatiana mix things up with their rhymes and raps working in tandem with their pop-punk attitude. With their new single Staycation, they’ve mixed up some warm,…

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Track: Witching Waves – Pitiless

Taken from their forthcoming album ‘Crystal Cafe’, out on February 26th via HHBTM Records (US)/Soft Power (UK), London trio Witching Waves have released a second single, Pitiless – aka Emma…

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Album Review: The Callas – Half Kiss Half Pain

Brothers Lakis and Aris lonas started The Callas in Athens, Greece back in 2005. Both filmmakers and musicians, the brothers lonas took a more dissonant and theatrical approach to their…

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Album Review: Field Music – Commontime

Sometime in the gloriously messed up late 80s I remember a friend playing me the ’25 ‘O Clock’ mini-album by ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’, a blast of fabulous neo-psychedelia, that…

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Box set review: Skeletal Family- Eternal: Singles, Albums, Rarities, BBC Sessions, Demos 1982-2015

The Skeletal Family were part of the Goth sub-culture that sprang up in the 1980s but they were never really in the movement’s first division like The Sisters of Mercy…

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Incoming: Deadpool

Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, Deadpool tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that…

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Album Review: Lissie – My Wild West

Ultimately this is a decent effort, wearing a number of flaws on its sleeves. It’s an album whose pop landscape is broken up by howls of anguish, discordant laments and, ironically,…

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Meet: The Scaffold’s Mike McCartney on the reissue of the McGough & McGear album

Live: Bowling For Soup, Leeds O2 Academy, 3.2.16

Track: Alfred Hall – Safe and Sound

Track: Dear Tatiana – Staycaytion

Track: Witching Waves – Pitiless

Album Review: The Callas – Half Kiss Half Pain

Album Review: Field Music – Commontime

Box set review: Skeletal Family- Eternal: Singles, Albums, Rarities, BBC Sessions, Demos 1982-2015

Incoming: Deadpool

Album Review: Lissie – My Wild West