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News: Pure Noise Records & Pabst Blue Ribbon present ”Dead Formats Volume 2

Pure Noise Records and Pabst Blue Ribbon have teamed up again to present ‘Dead Formats Volume 2’, a 15-track compilation featuring the Pure Noise Records roster sharing their takes on classic songs from Elton…

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TRACK: The Kinks announce 50th anniversary reissue of ‘Lola vs. Powerman …’ – hear new track, ‘Any Time 2020’

THE KINKS’ eighth studio album, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, is just celebrating its half-century … a scary thought. A concept album without the twiddly bits, but…

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Album Review: Tim Burgess – I Love The New Sky

If it wan’t enough that Tim Burgess fronts one of the most beloved, successful and long lasting indie bands The Charlatans, or that he has singularly redefined music in the…

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Not Forgotten: The Kinks – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

As unfeasible as it seems, there was once a time when the singles chart was of equal importance to the album chart. Actually, no, it was more important. In the…

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Not Forgotten: Ray Davies – The Storyteller

The rock star’s autobiography is big business these days, but rarely are they as revelatory, or as informative as they could be and even rarer do they actually make for…

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