With Radiohead on the sort of hiatus only their respective members could dream up, drummer Philip Selway has had plenty…
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The recent closure of Oldham’s Coliseum Theatre after almost 140 years and the imminent opening of a second twenty thousand…
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Released: 2003 Most people’s recall for Fountains of Wayne will be through Stacy’s Mom, a big dumb hit with a…
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #85 Ladytron – Seventeen
Released: 2002 The more things change, truly the more things stay the same. The release of Ladytron’s seventh album Time’s…
Steve Mason – Brothers & Sisters review
It always seems a little awkward to refer to Steve Mason as “..the former singer in the Beta Band“, but…
Death Valley Girls – Islands In The Sky review
Released in 2020, the relative success of Death Valley Girls Under The Spell of Joy was tempered by the on/off…
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For those critics who sneered at Dry Cleaning, ridiculing them as parody, the quartet’s last album Stumpwork was a rebuttal…
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Released: 2003 One of the best places to find yourself is when you’re sat on a pavement. In this case…
The Voice Of Unreason 