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Music Reissues Weekly: Too Far Out - Beat, Mod & R&B From 304 Holloway Road...
Maverick producer Joe Meek’s maximum-impact approach to the beat-group sceneThe thrill of hearing “Crawdaddy Simone” never wears off. As the September 1965 B-side of the third single by North London...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Yeah Man, It's Bloody Heavy
The ne plus ultra of British heavy rockThe sticker on the front cover says “The heaviest proto-metal compilation ever released.” And considering the label behind Yeah Man, It's Bloody Heavy is Rise...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Ibex Band - Stereo Instrumental Music
Ethiopian jazz album from 1976 which resists easy categorisationStereo Instrumental Music was recorded in July 1976 and originally issued only on cassette. The release was organised by what was...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Motor City Is Burning - A Michigan Anthology 1965-1972
Wide-ranging overview of the US state accommodating Detroit, the ‘rock city’In October 1967, John Lee Hooker released a single titled “The Motor City is Burning.” The song commented on the civil unrest...
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Music Reissues Weekly: 1001 Est Crémazie
Privately pressed Canadian jazz album resurfaces for its 50th anniversaryIt would have been hard to pick up a copy of the album credited to and titled 1001 Est Crémazie in 1975. Just 500 copies were...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Hamburg Repertoire
Perplexing compendium of songs The Beatles covered while playing the German port cityThe blurb on the front of the double-CD set The Hamburg Repertoire says it collects “The original recordings of...
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Music Reissues Weekly: John McKay - Sixes and Sevens
The former Siouxsie and the Banshees guitarist digs through his archive and finds treasureSixes and Sevens is a surprise. A big one. Since leaving Siouxsie and the Banshees in September 1979, John...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Roots Rocking Zimbabwe
Exhaustive guide to how and why a music scene evolved“Soul Scene,” by Echoes Limited, is built from elements of the James Brown sound. But it’s put together in such a way that the result is unfamiliar....
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Music Reissues Weekly: Chapterhouse - White House Demos
What the shoegazers were up to before they were categorised as shoegazersQuoted in an early music press article on his band Chapterhouse, singer-guitarist Stephen Patman said their ambition was “to...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Johnnie Taylor - Who's Making Love The Stax Singles...
Proof there’s more to the soul stylist than the first big hitJohnnie Taylor’s big break came with the ever-fabulous September 1968 single “Who's Making Love.” His ninth 45 for the Stax label, it went...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Pete Shelley - Homosapien, XL-1
What happened after the heart of Buzzcocks struck out on his ownPete Shelley’s departure from Buzzcocks felt abrupt. When he left the Manchester band which had been integral to British punk since 1976,...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Gather In The Mushrooms
Stylish, Saint Etienne-compiled, gateway into the world of acid folk“Forest and the Shore” by Keith Christmas is remarkable. In his essay for Gather In The Mushrooms, compiler, author and Saint Etienne...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Pilot - The Singles Collection
How there’s more to the Seventies hitmakers than ‘Magic’ and ‘January’"It was really strange. Really quite conflicting, the sort of thing most bands didn't have to deal with. At the front, we'd have...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Sonics - High Time
Handsome box set of seven-inchers celebrating the ferocious Sixties rockers“Theirs is truly rock in extremis, a précis of the youthful impetuosity and cathartic chaos at the heart of real rock ’n roll.”
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Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind
How ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ transformed a London mod-pop bandProcol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was an instant phenomenon. Recorded in April 1967 and issued as a single on 12 May after...
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