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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]

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Something for the weekend: Son Volt “If I Could”

July 17, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from alt-country heroes/pioneers/stalwarts/choose your own noun Son Volt whose latest album Sound Signal Serenades was physically released on […]
Artwork for Bell White album "A sign in the weather"
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Bella White “A Sign In The Weather”

July 17, 2026 0
A strong third album from the rootsy Canadian “Appalachian” artist from New Orleans showing raw emotion and a degree of post-breakup positivity. As you listen to each song on Bella White’s new studio album you feel […]
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Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates

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Jawdropped, a four-piece from Los Angeles, have announced their debut album, Secret To Spare, due 18th September via Transgressive Records / Canvasback. The band has also released the first single, Split Lip, along with a video […]

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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

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