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Toria Garbutt Crowd – Funds Punk Poetry Album
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The Ventures: Beach Party- album review
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Extraordinary Renditions: Dark Actors interviewed
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Barry Adamson : Manchester : Live Review
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The Monochrome Set: Volume, Contrast, Brilliance. Unreleased & Rare Vol. 2 –...
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Leveret: The Met, Bury – live review
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Mexrrissey: No Manchester – album review
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The Stranglers : Black and White tour : Liverpool : live review
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Tammy Wynette: Bedtime Story/ My Man – album review
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Those Foreign Kids – Oh, Nothing
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Turin Brakes: The Brudenell, Leeds – live review
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Monster Truck: Sittin’ Heavy – album review
Monster Truck: Sittin’ Heavy (Mascot) CD/Vinyl/DL Available now Rock’s a dying genre. We all know that. It’s been the subject of more obituaries than global capitalism but strangely neither of them...
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Animal Noise – ‘Sink or Swim’– Single review and EP preview
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Cluster: 1971-1981 – 9 album box-set review
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Aziza Brahim: Abbar el Hamada – album review
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Ulrich Schnauss: Thekla, Bristol – Live Review
Ulrich Schnauss Thekla, Bristol 3rd March 2016 Over the last fifteen years German musician, producer and remixer Ulrich Schnauss has been developing quiet a career for himself. Sometimes under...
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Yuko Yuko – More Than A Facebook Friend
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Jake Bugg: Bush Hall, London – live review
Jake Bugg Bush Hall, London March 11th 2016 Jake Bugg has been away for a really long time. So much so that people genuinely started to fear for the 22 year old’s whereabouts. Rumours circulated of...
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The Filthy Tongues: Jacob’s Ladder- album review
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