Not Forgotten: REM – New Adventures in Hi-Fi
New Adventures In Hi-Fi can be a difficult album to digest. It doesn’t flow particularly well, it can drag and in places it can sound rather dull. There aren’t many…
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Just Lions – Great. OK
I’m worried about Chandler, and not for the first time. Before it was The Bing Man: increasingly strung out, sweaty, scrawny and unable to convince us that there was any…
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Not Forgotten – Ian Hunter – Ian Hunter
Walking away from Mott the Hoople at the point they were beginning to make their mark in the USA, a lot of people must have questioned Ian Hunter’s desire to…
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DVD Review: American Interior
Gruff Rhys is one of a small number of artists who combine being talented musicians with a genuinely interesting and eccentric personality. The former lead singer of Super Furry Animals…
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Not Forgotten – The Replacements – Let It Be
After a clutch of scruffy punkish releases, Let It Be was where The Replacements started to indicate that they were slowly starting to mature, starting to blend more considered material…
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DVD Review: Brute Force
The Great Depression was a time of mass poverty and unemployment in America. Growing up in New York, and after taking part in local theatre groups and circus acts, a…
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See: London electronic duo Labyrinth Ear release video for ‘Marble Eyes’
London electronic duo Labyrinth Ear are gearing up to the release of their debut album The Orchard Room on 22nd September by releasing a new video for the standout track…
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Track: Jack Carty releases the gorgeous indie-folk of Be Like the Water
Ahead of the release of his third album, Esk, due out at the end of the month, Bellington, NSW, singer-songwriter Jack Carty has released a new single, Be like the…
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Track: FURS release the strangely joyous new single ‘An Eye on the Vicious’
We’ve been hanging onto FURS increasingly busy coattails for a while now, and after shoring up the lineup with the addition of bass player Amina Bates, and fresh from shows…
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Playlist: Sparks’ Dieter Meier picks out some of his favourite music videos for Backseat Mafia
It’s been quite a journey. As he approaches his seventh decade, Dieter Meier can look back on a life well lived. Conceptual artist, lyricist, singer and one half of influential…
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