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NEWS: experimental composer and Cocteaus collaborator Harold Budd reported to have passed, aged 84

SAD NEWS this evening as reports began to circulate across social media that the poet, avant-garde composer and pianist Harold Budd, a progenitor of the modern ambient piano style, has…

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NEWS: The Orielles announce live stream show from Hebden Bridge

HALIFAX’s lovely, all-conquering The Orielles are determined to bring a little light into our pervading winter with the announcement that they’re putting on a live-stream show from The Trades Club,…

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NEWS: Neil Cowley announces solo album for February; hear ‘She Lives In Golden Sands’

BRITISH pianist Neil Cowley, who released a septet of albums sitting astride the point where jazz begins to shade into modern composition and tronica over a period of ten years…

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NEWS: Kill Rock Stars sign Japanese garage-psychesters TEKE::TEKE – hear two tracks

RULE one: Japanese bands do brilliant, brilliant things with guitars: this is just fact. From the mind-blowing chaos of Melt-Banana to the heavy psych stylings of Acid Mothers Temple and…

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NEWS: Scottish Alternative Music Awards announces shortlist and live stream details

THE Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMA), now in their eleventh year, is an annual celebration of the best in new leftfield Scottish music. This year’s live ceremony will take place online at…

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NEWS: Bing & Ruth release digital remix EP of ‘Species’: hear a harp-laden take on ‘Badwater Psalm’

AS WE approach the end of this accursed year and begin to summate the best of it – and more than any year as a species, thank the good lord…

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NEWS: Blue Note announce new series of vinyl-only remasters for 2021

BLUE NOTE, the jazz imprint absolutely without parallel since 1939, has announced a new series of vinyl-only remasters and reissues to run from December into the middle part of 2021.…

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NEWS: Damaged Goods announce Heavenly and Talulah Gosh singles comps in time for Christmas!

NOW that’s the kinda Christmas present every proper indiekid needs. Damaged Goods have announced a 2xLP and CD reissue of their classic round-up of Talulah Gosh’s entire recorded output, Was…

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NEWS: Rozi Plain concludes subscriber-only V I S I T ▲ T I O N S series for Lost Map

LOST MAP RECORDS, the beautifully curated imprint run by The Pictish Trail’s Johnny Lynch from the Scottish island Eigg, has a second series of V I S I T ▲ T…

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SEE: Steve Hackett releases Hammersmith live set – watch a track

FORMER Genesis axeman Steve Hackett has released a live recording from his 2019 UK tour, entitled Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live at Hammersmith. The album came…

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