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Gaz Brookfield: True And Fast – album review
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Zero Hour: Cult Of Armageddon – album review
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Visions Festival: Various Venues, East London – live review
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Wickham Festival: Wickham Hampshire – live review
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Glass Animals: Summerstage – live review
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Omar Souleyman: Badheni Nami – album review
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Frank Turner: Night & Day, Manchester – live review
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Kagoule: Urth – album review
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Mike Garry ‘St Anthony’ single launch – tribute to Anthony Wilson evening :...
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First Wave ‘All Bleed Red’– album review
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Matrixxman: Homesick — album review
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Pavement: The Secret History Vol 1 – album review
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Slim Twig: Thank You For Stickin’ With Twig – album review
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Ian Brennan: Sister Maple Syrup Eyes – book review
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P. Stephenson: I See A Darkness – book review
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Two White Cranes: Radisson Blue – album review
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Do You Own The Dancefloor : film about the Hacienda : review
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Various Artists: Late Night Tales – Nils Frahm – album review
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AFX – Orphaned Deejay Selek (2006-2008) – EP Review
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Peter Perrett: The Ruby Lounge – live & photo review
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