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Music Reissues Weekly: Cherry Stars Collide, Waves of Distortion
CHERRY STARS COLLIDE, WAVES OF DISTORTION Shoegazing confirms its resonanceShoegazing confirms its resonanceIn July 2007, an article in The Guardian expressed surprise that shoegazing was influencing a...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Cock Sparrer - The Decca Years
How 1977’s punk boom gave an already-active London band a platform“This is a record company’s idea of new wave. Clichéd heavy metal riffs and someone shouting in a cockney voice. This is a con and I...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Folk, Funk & Beyond - The Arrangements Of John Cameron
Tremendous salute to the British musical innovatorDonovan’s “Sunshine Superman” was the UK’s first explicitly psychedelic record. Although there were delays with it hitting shops, it was recorded in...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Heavenly - Le Jardin de Heavenly
HEAVENLY - LE JARDIN DE HEAVENLY UK indie band’s 1992 album outshines vitriolic detractorsUK indie band’s 1992 album outshines the period’s vitriolic detractors “It takes a real effort to sound this...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Let's Stomp - Merseybeat and Beyond
LET'S STOMP - MERSEYBEAT AND BEYOND Entry point into the scene which birthed The BeatlesExhaustive entry point into the scene which birthed The BeatlesThe words “Mersey” and “beat” were first publicly...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night
TRIBAL RITES OF THE NEW SATURDAY NIGHT Significant collection soundtrackSignificant collection soundtracking what really inspired ‘Saturday Night Fever’“It all started with a June 7, 1976 article in...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Blossom Dearie - Discover Who I Am
BLOSSOM DEARIE - DISCOVER WHO I AM Jazz auteur’s brush with Swinging Sixties-era BritainIntriguing box set dedicated to the jazz auteur’s brush with Swinging Sixties-era BritainHad Blossom Dearie...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Sound - The Statik Records Years
THE SOUND: THE STATIK RECORDS YEARS Second chapter of Adrian Borland’s post-punk outfitBox set focusing on the second chapter of Adrian Borland’s post-punk outfit“There's a richness and a true depth...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Musical Offering - works for the Soviet-era ANS...
MUSICAL OFFERING Works for the Soviet-era ANS synthesiserImportant album featuring the instrument integral to the Tarkovsky film ‘Solaris’One of the most striking scenes in Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Keeping Control, Where Were You - Leeds and Manchester...
KEEPING CONTROL, WHERE WERE YOU Leeds & Manchester navigate the aftershocks of punkBox-set chronicles of independent-minded regional music scenes“Keeping Control” were the watchwords adopted by The...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Autonomy - The Productions of Martin Rushent
Overdue tribute to the enabler of pivotal records by Buzzcocks, Human League, The Stranglers and moreTwo producers named Martin worked with Buzzcocks and Joy Division. Martin Hannett was in the studio...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Glenda Collins, Heinz, David John & The Mood - the...
JOE MEEK'S TEA CHEST TAPES Glenda Collins, Heinz, David John & The Mood Unique perspective on the independent approach to getting a Sixties pop record into the shopsRestraint wasn’t the watchword....
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Music Reissues Weekly: Klar!80 - celebrating Düsseldorf’s early Eighties...
KLAR!80 Celebrating Düsseldorf’s early Eighties undergroundCassette-only obscurities are rescued from the margins Düsseldorf’s most famous band is Kraftwerk. Neu!, La Düsseldorf, and, a little later,...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Playing for the Man at the Door - Field Recordings...
PLAYING FOR THE MAN AT THE DOOR Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormickImportant box set tapping US folklorist’s previously unexplored archiveBetween the late 1950s and around 1971,...
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Music Reissues Weekly: The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
THE BOO RADLEYS - GIANT STEPS The landmark Creation Records double album reissuedThirtieth-anniversary reappearance of the landmark Creation Records double albumThe final track of Giant Steps is titled...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Keith Levene and The Clash
KEITH LEVENE AND THE CLASH Honouring the pivotal UK punk band’s short-stay early guitaristHonouring the pivotal UK punk band’s short-stay early guitaristForty-seven years ago this week, a new band...
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Music Reissues Weekly: March of the Flower Children - The American Sounds of...
MARCH OF THE FLOWER CHILDREN The American Sounds of 1967Dizzying document of US pop’s response to the year freakiness went mainstream“March of the Flower Children” was a June 1967 B-side by Los Angeles...
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Music Reissues Weekly: David Westlake - D87
DAVID WESTLAKE - D87 Welcome return of 1987’s Creation Records mini-album ‘Westlake’Welcome return of 1987’s Creation Records mini-album ‘Westlake’Becoming reacquainted with what was originally titled...
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Music Reissues Weekly: In the Light of Time - UK Post-Rock and Leftfield Pop...
Important collection documenting an innovative groundswell which still resonates“In the Light of Time” was the second track on Side One of April 1995’s Further, the third album by Bristol’s Flying...
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Music Reissues Weekly: Shake That Thing - The Blues in Britain 1963-1973
SHAKE THAT THING - THE BLUES IN BRITAIN 1963-1973 Compendium of US-inspired BritsBox-set compendium of US-inspired Brits lacks inquisitivenessIn September 1955, the grandly named London Skiffle Centre...
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