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Music Reissues Weekly: Guerrilla Girlsǃ - She-Punks & Beyond 1975-2016
Compilation self-billed as ‘a five-decade alternative to the macho hegemony of rock’In December 1977, the music weekly Sounds included an article about the County Durham punk band Penetration. By Jon...
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Music Reissues Weekly: George Martin - A Painter In Sound
Dizzying pre-Beatles tribute to the musical polymathA strange new single went on sale in Britain’s record shops in April 1962. Credited to Ray Cathode, “Time Beat” combined a metronomic rhythm with...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Rustic Hinge and the Provincial Swimmers
Seventies Britain’s freakiest freak-rockers finally get their day in the sunA first encounter with Rustic Hinge and the Provincial Swimmers is unforgettable. Their summer 1970 recordings are so far out...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Bob Stanley / Pete Wiggs Present Winter Of Discontent
Saint Etienne-compiled series of do-it-yourself aural postcards from post-punk’s liminal zonesAt some point in 1979 a duo called The Door and the Window are playing a London Musician’s Collective show...
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'Time Out of Mind' Revisited - a deep focus take on classic Dylan
The latest in Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series captures the creation of one of his most powerful albumsThe 1997 release of Time Out of Mind was the resurrection of an artist who appeared to have wandered off...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Padang Moonrise - The Birth of the Modern Indonesian...
Eye-opening compilation where knowing the context is essential“Ka Huma” by Ivo Nilakreshna sounds as if a jazz band was taking on rock ’n’ roll. There’s a swing and sway, busy rhythm guitar and a lead...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Senders - All Killer No Filler
A gap in the story of punk-era New York is pluggedThe New York Dolls, The Ramones, Suicide, Television, Blondie, The Dictators, The Heartbreakers, The Shirts, Richard Hell and the Voidoids. From 1974...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Modern Eon - Fiction Tales
MODERN EON - FICTION TALES Underappreciated Liverpool post-punk outfit is ripe for reappraisalUnderappreciated Liverpool post-punk outfit is ripe for reappraisalThe most commercially and consistently...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Dave Brubeck Quartet - Debut In The Netherlands 1958
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - DEBUT IN THE NETHERLANDS 1958 Previously unheard Amsterdam concert enhances the existing cataloguePreviously unheard Amsterdam concert enhances the existing catalogueFor Dave...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Stranger In Town - A Del Shannon Compendium
A DEL SHANNON COMPANION Baroque wonders, haunted psychodrama & garage-punk powerBaroque wonders, haunted psychodrama and garage-punk powerAfter Del Shannon took his own life in February 1990 at age...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Jon Savage's 1980-1982 - The Art Of Things To Come
Thought-provoking overview of three flux years when shininess became a goalJon Savage's 1980-1982 - The Art Of Things To Come continues a series which began in 2015 with 1966 - The Year The Decade...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Heavy Metal Kids - The Albums 1974-76
Gary Holton’s alleged punk antecedents turn out not to be so punky after allThe booklet coming with The Albums 1974-76 notes Johnny Rotten saw Heavy Metal Kids live and that the Sex Pistol “ripped off”...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Duffy Power - Innovations, Live at the BBC
DUFFY POWER - INNOVATIONS, LIVE AT THE BBC Additions to great blues-jazz stylist's catalogueEssential additions to the great British blues-jazz stylist's catalogueSometime in early October 1963 John...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Barracudas - Drop Out With The Barracudas
How drawing from the past made the garage-psych-punk-surf rockers pioneersFrom around July 1977, Jeremy Gluck began contributing to the UK music weekly Sounds. Amongst his pieces were features on The...
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Music Reissues Weekly: McNeal and Niles - Thrust, Wilbur Niles and Thrust -...
MCNEAL AND NILES Ohio funk rarities with surprising links to the state’s new wave sceneOhio funk rarities with surprising links to the state’s new wave sceneAn original pressing of 1979’s Thrust...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Too Much Sun Will Burn - The British Psychedelic...
An endlessly mined seam comes up with the goods - yet againTogether or separately, British psychedelia and 1967’s related music have been ceaselessly looked at. There cannot be an awful lot more to...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Pharoah Sanders Quartet - Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1980
PHAROAH SANDERS QUARTET Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1980Previously unheard live reframing of the ‘Journey To The One’ albumPromises attracted a lot of attention upon its 2020 release. The album brought...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Joe Meek And The Blue Men - I Hear A New World Sessions
How a landmark in British experimental pop was createdMarch 1960’s I Hear A New World EP was British pop at its most extraordinary. As its liner notes put it, it was “a strange record”: one seeking to...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Loma Northern Soul
LOMA NORTHERN SOUL Top-quality collection of an intriguing label’s Sixties soul sidesTop-quality collection of an intriguing label’s Sixties soul sidesOne of the essays in the booklet accompanying Loma...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Tony Rivers - Move A Little Closer: The Complete...
TONY RIVERS Move A Little Closer: The Complete Recordings 1963-1970Celebration of the British harmony pop titan who became Cliff’s vocal arrangerAmongst the stranger recordings surfacing in 1977’s...
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