Month: June 2015
- Picks
Bo Ningen – Bo Ningen (album, Stolen)
By turns visceral and ambient, Bo Ningen’s [trans: ‘Stick Men’] eponymous debut represents a remarkably accomplished first outing for this…
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Thee Spivs – Taped Up (album, Damaged Goods)
Tearing in like a switchblade through the fecal velour of a cinema seat comes the debut album from this much…
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FocusOn: Max Galli
Max Galli was born in Rome in 1969, right in the middle of the 'space age', the oldest of two…
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Or Glory: 21st Century Rockers by Horst A. Friedrichs
I’m always up for a challenge. Do anything, I will. Over-familiar photos from the 60s? Check. Films so obscure even…
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Tupac: A ‘Thug’ Afterlife
Tupac: Not more than hardly ... There's a whole mess of us stuck here; Elvis Presley, Jim Morrisson, Shergar, some…
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The Spork: A Practical Dining Tool
Raoul arrived a couple of hours later – he’d had some hassle with his old lady who was hassling him…
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Raoul Interviews Reinhardt Haydn (Part One)
Reinhardt Haydn: It’s difficult to say – so often the first thing that people want to know can be pretty…
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The Cramps at Napa State
‘The guy filming couldn't point his camera at the inmates because he couldn't show them escaping.’ Lux Interior
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Anarchive – 001 The Mob
Firstly, if you've never heard The Mob, this album is the wrong place to start. Score a copy of the…
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PJ Harvey – ‘Let England Shake’ (Island)
Songs of conflict, songs of harm, songs bereft of coquettish charm... otherworldly songs of the impending death that ultimately befalls…
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Top Of The Pops
I can still picture the tableau vivant; it’s around forty years ago, I’m in Woolworths trying to decide which particular…
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Steranko: Four Colour Shaman
In addition to being one of the most innovative comic book artists of the 1960s, Jim Steranko’s amazing life indentifies…
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