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Music Reissues Weekly: Essiebons Special 1973-1984 Ghana Music Power House
ESSIEBONS SPECIAL 1973-1984 GHANA MUSIC POWER HOUSE Proof that highlife was never a musical straitjacketProof that highlife was never a musical straitjacketOne of the most interesting tracks on...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Lenny Kaye Presents Lightning Striking
Eras and geography combine to generate a compilation as erudite as 1972’s ‘Nuggets’ The premise driving Lenny Kaye Presents Lightning Striking is the idea that, as it’s put here, “transformative...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Box Of Pin-Ups - The British Sounds of 1965, Think I'm...
Box sets nailing the musical unpredictability of the years 1965 to 1968Signs of irrevocable change materialised in December 1965. On Wednesday the 8th, a new band named The 13th Floor Elevators debuted...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Once Upon A Time In The West Midlands - The Bostin’...
Birmingham in a boxThe picture seen above doesn’t have quite the same resonance as Art Kane’s 1958 shot A Great Day in Harlem which brought 57 American jazz musicians in front of his lens, but it is...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over, The Pretty Things...
THE DAVE CLARK FIVE, THE PRETTY THINGS Sharply contrasting archive releases throw new light on Britpop historyRaw radio recordings win out over rewritten historyAt the beginning of November 1964, a...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Beau Brummels - Turn Around The Complete...
Last-word box set celebrating San Francisco’s important musical innovators“I do like this record. Despite their tremendously loser name, this group from America is pretty good. They have a sound of...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Looking back at 2021
Linda Smith, Karen Black, Elton John, Screamers, Sixties psych-punk, Graham Collier, The Count Bishops and moreThe archive release which had the greatest impact, and still does, was Linda Smith’s Till...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Jon Savage's 1977-1979 - Symbols Clashing Everywhere
Personal take on three years when disparate outlooks could happily coexistThe title borrows from the lyrics of Siouxsie and the Banshees’s August 1978 debut single “Hong Kong Garden”: “Harmful elements...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Gun Club - Preaching The Blues
Smart box set of singles honouring the singular musical vision of Jeffrey Lee Pierce“The Gun Club were true originals and Jeffrey Lee Pierce a genius. They were the inspiration behind many bands, I...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds - Stormy Monday And...
Proof there was more to the blues-soul stylist than oldies radio staple ‘Out of Time’TV-watching pop fans in many of the British regions were served a treat on 16 September 1966. A whole episode of...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Stan Tracey Trio - The 1959 Sessions
Welcome appearance of a previously unreleased studio album by the British jazz greatWhat’s now been titled The 1959 Sessions represents an unreleased studio album completed by the Stan Tracey Trio on 5...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Electric Prunes - Then Came The Dawn Complete...
Diligent box set charting the highs and lows of the psych-punk legendsThe Electric Prunes could feel happy at the end of January 1968. Since landing in London in late November 1967, they’d hung out...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather
Insightful celebration of country music’s ‘Help me Make it Through the Night’ hitmakerFor America’s oldies radio stations Sammi Smith will forever be about “Help me Make it Through the Night”. In 1970,...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Dick Raaijmakers aka Kid Baltan, and Tom Dissevelt
How The Netherlands created the first electronic pop recordIn 1957, popular music was given a jolt when the first electronic pop record was recorded. “Song of the Second Moon” was created and composed...
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Music Reissues Weekly: U-Roy - Version Galore
U-ROY - VERSION GALORE New edition of the Jamaican DJ’s 1971 album is a tribute to his memoryNew edition of the Jamaican DJ’s 1971 album is a tribute to his memoryThe death of U-Roy was announced on 17...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Bernard Butler - People Move On
BERNARD BUTLER - PEOPLE MOVE ON Former Suede man’s solo debut becomes a box setFormer Suede man’s debut solo album becomes a box set - with a twistThis new edition of People Move On, Bernard Butler’s...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Blossom Toes - We Are Ever So Clean
Essential British psychedelic artefact resurfacesIn July 1967, a British band called The Ingoes changed their name. Up to this point they’d traded in R&B, blues and soul, and tackled some rock ’n...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Broadcast - Maida Vale Sessions, Microtronics, Mother...
The picture is rounded-out, yet the enigma remainsIn 2000, Broadcast’s first album The Noise Made By People entered the UK’s mainstream Top 100 and claimed the top spot on the dance charts. Three years...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Theatre Of Hate - Omens
How much pessimism is too much?During the first week of February 1982, Theatre Of Hate got as close to the mainstream as they’d ever get. They opened that week’s edition of Top of the Pops with a run...
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Music Reissues Weekly: All Turned On! Motown Instrumentals 1960-1972
ALL TURNED ON! MOTOWN INSTRUMENTALS 1960-1972 There are still new things to say about the legendary soul labelSurprising confirmation that there are new things to say about the legendary soul...
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