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Best of 2024: Music Reissues Weekly
Expanding present-day horizons with The Beatles, Lou Christie, Lou Reed and moreA reissue can be an aide-mémoire, a reminder that a record which has been off the radar for a while needs revisiting,...
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Music Reissues Weekly: American Baroque - Chamber Pop and Beyond 1967-1971
Harpsichords, string quartets, woodwind and a summer-into-autumn melancholyThe descending refrain opening the song isn’t unusual but attention is instantly attracted as it’s played on a harpsichord....
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Music Reissues Weekly: Celebrate Yourself! The Sonic Cathedral Story 2004-2024
With the help of a sympathetic label, shoegazing once again confirms its resonanceYeti Lane’s second album The Echo Show was released in March 2012. The Paris-based duo’s LP was stunning: holding...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Twilights - Twilights Time The Complete 60s...
Australian pop group which recorded at Abbey Road but remained a local sensationOn 26 September 1966, The Twilights set-off from Australia to Britain. The journey, on the liner the Castel Felice, took...
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Music Reissues Weekly: New York Dolls - Showdown At The Mercer
Historically important earliest-known live recording of the punk precursors“A band you’re gonna like, whether you like it or not.” The proclamation in the press ads for the New York Dolls’ debut album...
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Music Reissues Weekly: You Got Me Hooked! - More Marylebone Beat Girls
Brit-girl blissAfter co-fronting Vinegar Joe with Robert Palmer, Elkie Brooks first charted as a solo artist in 1977 with “Pearl’s a Singer.” Yet there was more to her musical past than the 1971 to...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Beggars Arkive - The Lurkers’ 1978 John Peel session
Vital components of British punk rock and what followedOn its own, the second session The Lurkers recorded for the BBC’s John Peel show on 18 April 1978 is arguably a curio, a footnote. Four tracks of...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Sharks - Car Crash Supergroup
The early Seventies blues rockers admired by prime movers in British punkSharks were formed in 1972 by bassist Andy Fraser after he left Free. There were two albums, line-up changes and ripples which...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Diggin' For Gold Volume 14 - Norway's Sixties...
Welcome overview of neglected musical territoryIn 1964, the Norwegian division of Philips Records began issuing singles labelled “Bergen Beat.” The picture sleeves of 45s by Davy Dean and the Swinging...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Kraftwerk - Autobahn at 50
A reminder of changing perspectives“German space rock group is already shooting up the charts with their debut US LP. One of few continental groups able to make this musical mode attractive in the US.”...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Liverpool Sunset - The City After Merseybeat
Times changed, but the city which birthed The Beatles still came up with the goodsWhat happens after the spotlight is directed towards another target? In the case of Liverpool and the Merseybeat boom –...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Norma Tanega - I Don't Think It Will Hurt If You Smile
Cult album from 1971 which deserves its status as a lost classicAfter scoring a hit in 1966 with the distinctive folk-pop of her jazz-inclined debut single "Walkin' my Cat Named Dog," US...
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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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