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Music Reissues Weekly: The Prefects - Live At The Festival Suite 1978,...
England’s second city navigates punk’s aftershocksIt was going to be great. Birmingham’s Digbeth Rag Market was hosting 1977’s highest-profile punk festival on 17 July. The Clash were headlining. Also...
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Music Reissues Weekly: My World Fell Down - The John Carter Story
Extensive testament to a one-man music industryFat Man’s Music Festival. The Haystack. Red Line Explosion. Stormy Petrel. Butterwick. Sweet Chariot. Names which don't immediately spring to mind.The...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Saturno 2000 - La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962-1983
Revealed - the slowed-down world of Mexico’s sound systemsWhat’s in the groove isn’t necessarily the end of the story. Sound is fixed into a record when it’s pressed. Get it revolving on a turntable,...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Fame - Jon Savage’s Secret History Of Post-Punk (1978-81)
FAME - JON SAVAGE'S SECRET HISTORY OF POST-PUNK (1978-81) Exploratory communiqués from punk’s slipstreamExploratory communiqués from punk’s slipstream“The Method” by The Method Actors was issued as the...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Dusty Springfield - Dusty Sings Soul
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - DUSTY SINGS SOUL Twenty-four musical landmarks from the finest British soul singer of her eraTwenty-four musical landmarks from the finest British soul singer of her eraFirst on...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Kokomo - To Be Cool
Previously unheard sessions by the soul-funk outfit characterise pre-punk Britain’s patchwork-quilt music sceneOver January, February and early March 1975, British music fans could buy tickets for what...
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Music Reissues Weekly: 999 - A Punk Rock Anthology
Entry point compilation into the band who ‘seem to have lost control’“Ramonic buzzsaw impressionism guitars lovingly poured like a truckload of Quaker Oats over the indecipherable lyrical content that...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Patty Waters - You Loved Me
PATTY WATERS - YOU LOVED ME The jazz auteur’s astonishing, originally shelved 1970 albumFirst-ever vinyl outing for the jazz auteur’s astonishing, originally shelved 1970 album“Touched by Rodin in a...
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Music Reissues Weekly: John Barry - The More Things Change
JOHN BARRY - THE MORE THINGS CHANGE Deep-digging collection reframes perceptions of feted composer’s soundtrack workDeep-digging collection reframes perceptions of feted composer’s soundtrack workBy...
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Album: Wren Hinds - A Child's Chant for a New Millennium
South African singer-songwriter sounds like an old friendSide Two of A Child’s Chant for a New Millennium opens with “Wrenbird,” a consideration of whether it’s possible to have a bird’s freedom of...
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Music Reissues Weekly: In A Rocking Mood - Beverley’s Rock Steady 1966-1968
Leslie Kong’s legendary Jamaican label moves with the timesBeverley’s was an ice-cream shop and restaurant on Orange Street in Kingston, Jamaica. Records were on sale too. In 1961, an aspiring...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Barney Wilen - Zodiac
French jazz curio with an impeccable cultural context resurfacesIn 1966, the combo fronted by Frenchsax player Barney Wilen issued an album of musical interpretations of each sign of the zodiac. In the...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Ban the Bomb - Music of the Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear...
BAN THE BOMB - MUSIC OF THE ALDERMASTON ANTI-NUCLEAR MARCHES The folk and trad-jazz soundtrack to the UK’s anti-nuclear movementThe folk and trad-jazz soundtrack to the early days of the UK’s...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Whatever You Want - Bob Crewe's 60s Soul Sounds
Proof there was more to the one-man music business than The Four SeasonsIn 1965, Bob Crewe was living alongside Central Park in New York’s Dakota building. At various times, the block’s other residents...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Ferkat Al Ard - Oghneya
Superb Lebanese album belatedly gets the recognition it deservesOghneya opens with the extraordinary “Matar Al Sabah.” Jazzy, with an overt Brazilian feel it gently swings and swoons. Wordless backing...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Judex - Cult of Judex
JUDEX - CULT OF JUDEX Overview of Philadelphia garage punks reveals unexpected Bowie tie-inOverview of Philadelphia garage punks reveals unexpected David Bowie tie-inA compilation album titled...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Happy In Hollywood - The Productions Of Gary Usher
Stunning collection honouring California’s one-man musical powerhouseAs either a producer or songwriter Gary Usher worked with The Beach Boys and The Byrds, the two most consequential California bands...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Beatles - Get Back
THE BEATLES - GET BACK Peter Jackson’s triumphant re-evaluation of the ‘Let It Be’ film's source material on Blu-rayPeter Jackson’s re-evaluation of the ‘Let It Be’ film’s source material is a...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Hit Parade - Pick Of The Pops Vol.1
THE HIT PARADE - PICK OF THE POPS VOL 1 Why the enduring indie combo may be Britain’s most wilful bandFourteen reasons why the enduring indie combo may be Britain’s most wilful bandOn the cover of The...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Movers - Vol. 1 1970-1976
THE MOVERS 1970-1976 Unstoppable South African groove machine gets another day in the sunUnstoppable South African groove machine gets another day in the sunAfter a burst of gun-shot drumming, “Hot...
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