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Protomartyr’s front man Joe Casey has been seeing things, nightmarish visions that can punctuate sleep or lucidity. His mind is…
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The more things whatever, the more they stay the same. For men of a certain age the planet has become…
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“A mission statement which boldly reads: YOU CAN LOVE OLD ROCK WITHOUT PASTICHING IT.”
LA Priest – GENE review
Former Late Of The Pier frontman builds instrument in time off, names second album after it…mixed results.
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #48 Slayer – Raining Blood
Released : 1986 Like some kind of clickbait headline from now, back in 1986 Rick Rubin had one neat trick…
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #49 Kraftwerk – Tour De France
Released: 1983 The 1980’s was the decade in which everyone spent catching up with Kraftwerk: having taken much of the…
DMA’s – The Glow review
Call it what you want, a big heart scrawled on a wall somewhere with UK/DMA’s 4ever written there, but the…
Khruangbin – Mordechai review
Khruangbin are several conjunctions of unlikely stars aligning: nominally from Texas, the trio make music that fuses disco, house, pop…
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Released : 1985 Joe Strummer’s fears were realised after the departure of Mick Jones holed The Clash well below the…
