Reviews
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THE GOOD LUCK JOES: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT NOISE?
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Hardly groundbreaking (but then what is these days) however The Good Luck Joes make the right sort of fist with What Do You Think of That Noise? By and large,…
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SAY HI TO YOUR MOM: IMPECCABLE BLAHS
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Lets be honest, Say Hi To Your Mom is largely the work of one man, and Eric Elbogen’s (for that is his name) fourth foray into the world of…
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CALLING ALL MONSTERS: THE TRAPS THAT WORK BEST
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Sweaty, noisy, punk rock music has returned in the form of Calling All Monsters. These four lads from San Fransisco have stripped away a lot of the pomposity from…
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VOICST: 11-11
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11 – 11 is about as perfect as one can get for a debut record. If guitar-based pop music is your thing, this should touch your buttons and get you…
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DISCO BISCUITS: THE WIND AT FOUR TO FLY
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Disco Biscuits don’t play fair. They write songs, record them for posterity, and then never play them the same way again. Thus, if you fall in love with a…
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BILLY MACKENZIE: TRANSMISSION IMPOSSIBLE
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When Billy Mackenzie committed suicide in 1997 at the age of 39, he left behind a wealth of unfinished material. Some of this material was more in the style…
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AMSTERDAM KLEZMER BAND: REMIXED!
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For the uninitiated (colour me that shade of ignorant), klezmer music is a form of music that developed in Southeastern Europe and is also associated with Jewish celebrations. There…
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DUB SYNDICATE: THE RASTA FAR I
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Unlike its cousins reggae and ska, which exude summertime and sunglasses, dub music is deeply redolent of dark smoky nightclubs, sometimes-dodgy backstreet purveyors of comic books, and blacklit, ganja-soaked…
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BLACK 47: BITTERSWEET SIXTEEN
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Apparently Black 47 are recognised as the premier Irish-American rock group who “paved the way for the current Irish-American explosion” and their new album is a retrospective of their…
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ANI DIFRANCO: CARNEGIE HALL – 4.6.02
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I’ve had a relationship with Ani DiFranco since around 1993. This is not a conventional relationship, shall we say. It is somewhat of a long-distance one, but no less…