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The Other Side of Me: Lyndon Bolton tunes the Television to ‘Marquee Moon’

September 13, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 3

Unlike my multi-faceted fellow scribes I’ve never really been into an artist, far less an entire genre, long enough to qualify as a “side” completely independent of what can be traced quite easily to what we […]

The Other Side Of Me: Martin Johnson on the musical world opened up by Miles Davis’s “On The Corner”

August 30, 2022 Martin Johnson 2

If you were a young music fan in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s there was every possibility that you would have heard of a lot more music and artists than you had managed to actually […]

The Other Side of Me: Sean Hannam on the power of the Pet Shop Boys

August 16, 2022 Sean Hannam 2

If it wasn’t for the Pet Shop Boys, I might not be into americana, but, funnily enough, I don’t owe it to their 1987 HI-NRG version of the country song, ‘Always On My Mind‘, which was […]

The Other Side of Me: Ljubinko Zivkovic celebrates the Krautrock delights of Can’s ‘Future Days’

August 2, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

‘Future Days’, Can’s fifth album proper, could to this day probably be one of the more misunderstood. Many critics, even those very knowledgeable in all matters Krautrock like Julian Cope, seem to have missed the point. […]

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The Other Side of Me: Kimberly Bright on Los Tiki Phantoms’ horror surf guitar rock

July 19, 2022 Kimberly Bright 0

I had considered doing an overview of my favorite guitar instrumentals, with The Meters, Joe Satriani, The Ventures, Davey Graham, Santo & Johnny, and Van Halen represented. Then I decided that the more recent gem, eccentric […]