Year: 2015
- Funk
Marvin Gaye: ‘What’s Going On’ – 40th Anniversary Edition
(2 CD set, Island/Universal) It’s the sixties, and Marvin Gaye had spent the best part of ten years churning out…
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Panic Cell to play final gig on 9 July at Sonisphere Festival
Panic Cell to play final gig on 9 July at Sonisphere Festival Metal behemoths Panic Cell have announced that their…
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Vivian Girls – Free download, UK tour dates
Mighty Brooklyn trio Vivian Girls have released a free mp3, ‘Take It As It Comes’ ahead of their imminent UK…
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Bob Meyer’s Folk Companion – 4 July
Juniper Leaf I love it when an album gets stuck in my head like an ear worm burrowing it’s…
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Dum Dum Girls – New album, ‘Only In Dreams’ due 26 September
EYEPLUG favourites, the Dum Dum Girls release their second album, Only In Dreams is set for release by Sub Pop…
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Akron/Family release new album – ‘< bmbz >‘
On this April’s Record Store Day, arch experimentalists Akron/Family released an experimental collaboration with kindred spirits based around S/T II:…
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Mazes – Free download, tour details
Analogue melody demons Mazes have announced details of their first UK headline tour. Kicking off in Leeds on 3 October,…
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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…
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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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