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Album Review: The Raft releases the shimmering and dreamy album ‘Summerheads and Winter Beds’

The consistently elegant and ethereal beauty of The Raft shines brightly in the new album ‘Summerheads and Winter Beds’: a collection of shimmering incandescent tracks that burn brightly. And we…

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SEE: Generation – ‘Tokyo’: sleaze rock brothers take another glammy bite

TAKING on the all the glorious, skinny, wasted rock’n’roll tradition of the Stooges, the New York Dolls, early Manics, and throwing open a mascara and glam-riffing portal in the centre…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Mugstar – Graft

Centripetal Force (North America) and Cardinal Fuzz (UK/Europe) last week released the latest LP from Mugstar, Graft, the follow up album to their much-lauded live collaboration with Can’s Damo Suzuki…

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SEE: Generation – ‘Suicidal Champagne’: first salvo from Liverpool’s new trashrock gods

JAMES and Dean Carne, the Liverpudlian ‘brothers sin’, grew up on a diet of fine funk and soul, but both had a eureka moment when they fell for the less…

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SEE: Red Rum Club’s ‘The Elevation’: brassy pop for the blue-tick age

AS THE rain starts to wrap us in autumn, at least Liverpudlian sextet Red Rum Club are here to bring a little thoughtful pop sunshine. Today they’ve dropped a video…

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SEE: the rage of Stone’s ‘Stay Silent’, live from Liverpool

STONE: solid, unyielding, hard. It’s pretty much the perfect name for the Liverpudlian band that have picked up a dazzled DJ fan in the shape of Radio One’s Jack Saunders,…

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SEE: Merseyside duo King Hannah debut with ‘Crème Brûlée’, sign for City Slang

SOMETIMES it’s just absolutely the right time for a band. Sometimes, that band exists as a fully formed notion; and it just needs to step out into the physical world. …

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SEE: Red Rum Club – ‘Ballerino’: some proper shapes thrown, tour news

YEAH, you think you’ve got moves, Christopher Walken? The star of Deerhunter and so many other Hollywood classics, who revealed he had an absolute line on owning the dancefloor in…

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SEE: Paul Molloy – ‘My Madonna’: ’68 psych-pop finery

THEY get absolutely bloody everywhere, these Coral boys. Turn your back for so much as a second and another one of them has stepped out from beneath the psychedelic skirts…

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See: Jamie Webster’s acoustic pop rallying cry, ‘Common People’

HE’S got that big Liverpudlian heart, has singer-songwriter Jamie Webster – like Gerry & The Pacemakers, like The Mighty Wah!, The Pale Fountains, so many others, he has that understanding…

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