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SEE: Departure Lounge – ‘Australia’: Peter Buck joins cult faves for a glorious, jangly nugget

CULT favourites from back when the Nineties became the Noughties, you can’t accuse Departure Lounge of not having ambition on their new single, “Australia” – if that wasn’t enough a…

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NEWS: R.E.M. TO PREMIERE COMPLETE BBC BROADCAST OF LEGENDARY 1999 GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL ON YOUTUBE NEXT THURSDAY (AUGUST 6)

Continuing celebrations around the 50th anniversary of Glastonbury Festival this year, R.E.M.’s historic headline set from the Pyramid Stage in 1999 will be released globally next Thursday (August 6). Fans can…

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Album Review: Pilotcan – No More Shan Goodbyes

Edinburgh’s Pilotcan has just released their fifth album ‘No More Shan Goodbyes’ and it is an absolute delight. Bringing together elements of nineties low-fi simplicity with a touch of eighties…

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Track: Verge Collection – Feelin’ Old plus album and tour news

Western Australian band, Verge Collection‘s new single, ‘Feelin’ Old’ has an instantly engaging indie rock jangle that takes residence in your head like a virus. A very enjoyable one. There…

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Meet: Sid Griffin from The Long Ryders

In the midst of endless mid-80s synth pop the arrival on these shores of The Long Ryders with their swaggering fusion of country rock with punk attitude was a welcome…

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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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