Album Review: The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir
How the hell do you even review an album like 50 Song Memoir? At 5 CDs, it’s a huge undertaking just to listen to the whole thing. Or at least…
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Classic Compilation: XTC – Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-1992
It is the mid-90s, you are the Virgin record label, you have been in dispute with one of your best acts for years and there seems to be no end…
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Meet: Ryan Keen interview
Ryan Keen is quite the jet setter. For a singer-songwriter and guitar supremo who has chummed about with the likes of Ed Sheeran, supported X Factor diva Leona Lewis and…
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Classic Compilation: The Wonder Stuff – If the Beatles Had Read Hunter… The Singles
It can’t have been easy to have been a former member of The Wonder Stuff in the mid to late 90s, witnessing much watered down variations of their patented guitar-pop…
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Classic Compilation: Violent Femmes – Permanent Record: The Very Best of Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes, for all their lengthy career, are primarily known for their self titled debut, a consistently selling, yet never charting, collection of hymns to teenage male angst. With its…
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Live Review: Ryan Keen / Corey Harper, The Islington, London, 30/11/17
Totnes-born singer-songwriter Ryan Keen has graced the same stages as megastars like Ed Sheeran and X Factor champion Leona Lewis playing support slots on huge national and indeed world tours,…
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Classic Compilation: Uncle Tupelo – 89/93: An Anthology
Not being a huge fan of country music, or even the more recent alt-country movement, I originally approached 89/93: An Anthology with a little trepidation. I didn’t actually know much…
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Classic Compilation: They Might Be Giants – A Users Guide to They Might Be Giants
One of the beauties of a compilation, is that if it is your first foray into that particular act’s work, you can leave it at that if you find that…
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News: They Might Be Giants – New Album, 2018 European Tour and the return of Dial-A-Song
Veteran Brooklyn duo They Might Be Giants have recently announced a new 15 track album called I Like Fun that is due to be released in early 2018, as well…
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News: Del Amitri announce UK tour for July 2018
Scots chart-botherers Del Amitri will make their long-awaited return to the stage for a UK tour in 2018. It’s been a while since we last saw Del Amitri – February 2014,…
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