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From an old record box: Brave Captain – Better Living Through Reckless Experimentation EP

On settling down to review this EP I was expecting it to at least be interesting, not least given that I couldn’t really remember anything positive about it. When I bought…

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From an old record box: Teenage Fanclub – Start Again

I first bought some Fannies in the early 90s – ‘The Concept’ on cassingle – and then had little to no contact with them until ‘Howdy !’ around early 2001. …

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EXCLUSIVE! : Pusher – ‘10,000 Hours’ – Exclusive first stream + interview.

Think back to the first time you heard your favourite band. You could probably tell in a few heartbeats that you were going to like them, and before the first…

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Album Review: BC Camplight – How to Die in the North

Okay, confession time. Prior to hearing How to Die in the North, I was utterly ignorant of the work of BC Camplight. Simply put, his was not a name that…

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From an old record box: Ian Brown – F.E.A.R.

Verdict: just-about-listenable hokum. Let’s be honest – the lyrics are complete hogwash. I’m sure at the outset Ian Brown thought it was a great idea to flesh out the acronym in every…

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Feature: New Music For The New Year – Albums To Look Forward To In 2015

I know, I know. This should be my favorite albums of 2014, not albums I’m looking forward to in 2015. As much as I love the favorite lists, and as…

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Track: Menace Beach – ‘Blue Eye’

Menace Beach are the lovechild of Leeds duo Ryan Needham and Liza Violet, who since their inception have been cruising round town picking up members from other bands to…

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Track: H Hawkline – Moons in my Mirror, plus tour news

Taken from his forthcoming album ‘In the pink of condition’ comes a new single by H Hawkline, aka Huw Gwynfryn Evans. Titled Moons of my Mirror, its out on Monday…

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Live Review: Inspiral Carpets – Leadmill, Sheffield 6.12.14

The haircuts were considerably shorter, and maybe the clobber was a few sizes bigger than ‘back in the day’, but with the amount of Adidas trainees, Italian sportswear and sun…

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Track: Jordan Klassen – Piano Brother, plus European tour dates

Vancouver singer-songwriter Jordan Klassen has spent the last year hard at work, earning increasing amounts of plaudits for his assured songwriting, literate lyrics and this intricate, layered sound that has…

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