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Album Review: Big Top Heartbreak – Deadbeat Ballads

Opening with a brief stacked choral and minimal piano number like “Dogs Can’t Play Cards” displays a certain amount of confidence. Do Big Top Heartbreak deserve this level of self-asurdness…

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Tracks: Bayonet – Weekend

Bayonet are Vince, Lewis, Danny and Sam – a dashing group from Sheffield who I once described as being “an indie band designed for posters on teenage girls’ bedroom walls”…

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Not Forgotten: Rick Wakeman – Journey to the Centre of the Earth

It can’t be easy having been the interesting member of Yes. While the rest of that most hilariously pompous prog-rock act had their heads firmly jammed up their own derrieres,…

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See: The Raveonettes release video for This Is Where It Ends

As part of their ongoing rolling monthly commitment for a new track a month, or as they call it “RAVE-SOUND-OF-THE-MONTH”, comes the latest from The Raveonettes “This Is Where It…

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Meet: Hannah Peel on her new album ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’, plus new show details

Hannah Peel, 2/3rds of Magnetic North and acclaimed singer songwriter, has released one of the years most lovely, intimate, emotional and beautiful records of the year in Awake but always…

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The First Monday in May follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended fashion exhibition in history, “China: Through The Looking Glass,” an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western…

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DVD Review: The Evil in Us

Conspiracy theories and political commentary aren’t unusual in horror films. Indeed, it’s a genre which is prime retail for analogies and metaphors. Jacob’s Ladder is the first film to spring…

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LIVE: Of Mice And Men, Crown The Empire and Hands Like Houses, Manchester Apollo, 1.10.16

This tour sees Of Mice And Men take on their biggest UK venues to date, fresh from supporting none other than Marilyn Manson and Slipknot over in the states. They’re…

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Say Psych: Premiere, Fyre Balls by Ball

A few weeks ago I did a playlist of great Swedish psych music (here). Had I known about this new single from new band Ball I’m pretty sure I would…

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Album Review: Videodrones – Mondo Ferox

“It’s pretty late, yet I still have a couple videotapes left to watch. I burned through some Argento, Fulci, Carpenter; now its time to jump into a stack of Gorgon…

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Album Review: Big Top Heartbreak – Deadbeat Ballads

Tracks: Bayonet – Weekend

Not Forgotten: Rick Wakeman – Journey to the Centre of the Earth

See: The Raveonettes release video for This Is Where It Ends

Meet: Hannah Peel on her new album ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’, plus new show details

Incoming: The 13th

DVD Review: The Evil in Us

LIVE: Of Mice And Men, Crown The Empire and Hands Like Houses, Manchester Apollo, 1.10.16

Say Psych: Premiere, Fyre Balls by Ball

Album Review: Videodrones – Mondo Ferox