Month: June 2015
- Folk
Bob Meyer’s Folk Companion – 25 June
Pete Greenwood I first met Pete about five years ago at the Half Moon pub in Hearn Hill, South London…
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Year Double Zero
There’s been some debate in cyberspace recently on the differences between a music critic and a fanzine writer. I’d argue…
Read More » - Beats
Watch The Closing Doors – A History of New York’s Musical Melting Pot Vol. 1 (1945-59)
(2 CD set, Future Noise) Often, the hallmark of a genuinely brilliant concept is that one is immediately thinks, ‘Why…
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The Damned – ‘Machine Gun Etiquette’ Anniversary Live Set
2 DVD, 1 CD set (Easy Action/AVF) Something of a bumper compendium arranged around the Damned’s 2004, Machine Gun Etiquette…
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Richard Thompson ‘Live At The BBC’ deluxe boxset out now
Universal (3 CDs, plus DVD) Remarkably, this is the first ever compilation of Richard Thompson’s post Fairport Convention BBC recordings.…
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Milk Maid – ‘Yucca’
(album, Suffering Jukebox/FatCat) This debut set from a quartet fronted by Nine Black Alps bassist Martin Cohen is an exercise…
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Underground Railroad – ‘White Night Stand’
(album, One Little Indian) Misrepresented by their publicity, the listener should not anticipate anything remotely Radiohead-like from Underground Railroad. Their…
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Beastie Boys – ‘Hot Sauce Committee Part Two’
(album, Capitol) It appears that time and longevity have afforded the Beasties something akin to (inter)national treasure status – the…
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The Wind-Up Birds – Tense, Nervous, Headache?
I’ve always had a soft spot for Leeds. Used to admire their footballers back in the Bremner days, until I…
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African Head Charge – ‘Voodoo of the Godsent’
(album, On-U-Sound) The first African Head Charge studio work since 2005’s Vision of a Psychedelic Africa, Voodoo of the Godsent…
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Brain Killer – New Album, US Tour
Boston punks Brain Killer take their chops from Discharge, their politics from Crass, their graphic influence from Flux Of Pink Indians,…
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WU LYF – ‘Go Tell Fire To The Mountain’
(album, LYF Recordings) The most hyped new English group of the last decade? My editor certainly thinks so, judging by…
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