Hotplugs
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Bob Meyer interviews Josienne Clarke
Anyone who tunes in to my radio show will know my favourite modern female folk singer/songwriter is Josienne Clarke. Josienne has…
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The DIY Punk & Hardcore Movement (Circa 2011)
Bonjour, bienvenue, et wilkommen to the latest instalment of what at least one of us is calling ‘The DIY Punk…
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Zounds – ‘The Redemption of Zounds’
(album, Overground) After the best part of thirty years, it’s good to have another Zounds album to put next to…
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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 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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Slug Guts – Drilling The Anus Of Culture A New Hole
Slug Guts are drilling the anus of culture a new hole, one record at time. Their current long player, Howlin’…
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GIL SCOTT-HERON (1 April 1949 – 27 May 2011)
I stopped taking hip-hop seriously round about the time it started turning into high pantomime and dollar-grabbing clichés in the…
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STEVE LAKE – ZOUNDS
Nearly three decades after they first topped the independent charts with ‘Can’t Cheat Karma’, Zounds are back with a new…
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Kris Needs Presents… Dirty Water 2 – More Birth of Punk Attitude
(2CD set, Year Zero) Happily, the overwhelmingly positive response to Dirty Water – The Birth of Punk Attitude has enabled…
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Ramones – 1234!
Ramones is group from Forest Hills, New York. They started to play as a trio in March 1974. Ritchie was…
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The Prince
Campbell began his professional career as a singer in 1956; performing in Kingston nightclubs. He formed a succession of bands…
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The Staggers – Wild Teens
Watch this monochrome garage video clip for ‘Wild Teens’ by The Staggers, a great live outfit spreradigna real buzz for…
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