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Lloyd Cole “Warm By The Fire” – welcome to the Dystopia
On the new single from Lloyd Cole’s upcoming album ‘On Pain‘, which he is releasing on his EarMUSIC label on the 23rd July he sings that “it’s warmer by the fire, by the flames” to a […]
Articles by Jonathan Aird
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Starpainter “Summer In Your Mouth” – how long ’til you come around again?
Here’s the second single from Alberta band Starpainter’s new album ‘Rattlesnake Dream’ which will be released on June 2nd. It’s a quietly impressive song of steadfast longing, that had a literary inspiration. Starpainter’s Joel Stretch explained […]
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Lauren Barth “Durango” – may as well drive through the night
If Lauren Barth is not on your music radar then this song should switch you on to someone who is a rare talent. ‘Durango‘ is a song for which the term epic was coined, it’s a […]
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Ewan MacColl “A Man’s A Man For A’ That” – rank is but the guinea’s stamp
Why would we be thinking of Burns this Friday? Oh, who knows? For some reason though we couldn’t help but recall: “For a’ that, an’ a’ that, Their dignities, an’ a’ that, The pith o’ Sense […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: Vashti Bunyan “Wayward: Just Another Life To Live”
A Sixties Fairy Tale Unfolds through recollections and anecdotes. Vashti Bunyan’s adventures in the 1960s and early 1970s are, it is fair to say, legendary – and a romantic legend at that. The things that people […]