Every Record Tells A Story
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Sweet Billy Pilgrim Launch Stunning New Album At St Pancras Old Church
As the dystopian nightmare of 2017 fades, to be replaced with fresh, new dystopian horrors with a shiny “Made In 2018” badge on them, we find ourselves looking for a fresh start. And what better way to find a fresh start than turning to a band about to release their fifth album? Well, okay, on…
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A New Year, A New Band: Shame
2018. A new year, a fresh start. A chance to shed the winter coat that you unwittingly piled on when you bought, and then consumed, those second and third tubs of Heroes and Quality Street over the festive season. It’s a chance to move more, eat less, make resolutions, quit things, start other things, fix…
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Every Record Tells A Story’s Albums Of 2017
Being barged out of the way by stressed shoppers. Not being able to find the thing your kids put on the top of their list. Bringing a dead tree into your house and covering it with shiny balls. Spending slightly too long in the company of your family. Having to go to an unfamiliar supermarket…
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Fleet Foxes Swap Columbia University for Brixton Academy
Seattle. Early 2000’s. Robin Pecknold meets Skyler Skjelset at school and they bond over a love of Mike Wilson, Bob Dylan and Neil Young. They form a band, and give it a quirky name that people will remember and could lead them to greatness. The Pineapples are born. Thankfully they realise that’s a terrible name…
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Queens of the Stone Age – Live In London
Josh Homme has come a long way since his formative teenage years when his band, Sons of Kyuss, filled the hot, star-filled Palm Desert sky with cacophonous noise, bonfire smoke and teenage attitude, playing gear powered by generators to a seething crowd of bored desert kids. A far cry from tonight, where Josh Homme has…
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Why Independent Record Shops Shouldn’t Fear Sainsbury’s Compilation Albums (Too Much)
You can see why the start up of it’s own record label by supermarket chain Sainsbury’s would provoke within independent record shops the sort of confusion and suspicion you might otherwise only witness when a particularly trendy flock of sheep at an indie disco spots a wolf dressed like Kurt Cobain. Large retailers don’t have…
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Help Celebrate “One Of The Country’s Great Record Shops’” 40th Birthday
On the 28 October 1977 a thirty-seven year old Peter Driscoll opened a new record shop at 55 Elm Road in Leigh on Sea. It was the year of Punk and The Sex Pistols, so naturally the UK’s charts reflected this cataclysmic social upheaval, with the nation’s number one record that week being “Yes Sir,…
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Beck Pays Tribute To Tom Petty With Cover of American Girl: Live at The Electric Ballroom
A new album by Beck is something to be celebrated, and the man himself has been in London all week to promote the new LP “Colors”, an upbeat, shiny, modern pop record, a million miles removed from its predecessor, the gorgeous but melancholy “Morning Phase”. Even better, Beck and his band eschewed the chance to…
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Vinyl Subscription Services: Which One Is Best?
Not sure whether to sign up to a vinyl subscription service? Here’s a look at a few… Last time, we looked at Vinyl Me Please and its cocktail recipe. It was all very shiny and pleasing, but didn’t solve the perennial issue of potentially lumbering you with records as welcome in your collection as Mariah…
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Vinyl Me? Please…
In which we take a look at the US vinyl subscription service and check out the most important aspect of their monthly offer: The cocktail recipe…
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Ty Segall: Live at The Coronet, London.
Gentrification. “The process of renovating and improving something so that it conforms to middle-class taste”. Or “the process of making a person or activity more refined or polite”. Last night, the thankfully ungentrified Ty Segall and his ungentrified band played the equally ungentrified Elephant and Castle, at The Coronet, a South London Art Deco-styled venue…
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Car Seat Headrest Steps Up As Headliner: Live at The Forum
Car Seat Headrest announced themselves with something of a flourish last year, surfacing seemingly fully formed with one of the albums of 2016. It turned out that band leader Will Toledo had already released (at the still tender age of 23) a dozen solo albums on Bandcamp before pulling a band together and signing to…
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The Five Golden Rules of Setting Up Your Own Album Of The Month Club
An Album of the Month Club is a wonderful thing. It’s like having a friend with great musical taste who is compiling, nay, “curating” * music for you to add to your collection. Yay! Or is it? What friend would “curate” a selection of music and then insist you buy it from them? And then…
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Cheap Music! (Terms and Conditions Apply): The Rise and Fall of Album of the Month Clubs
“The one thing Harry Houdini was never able to get out of was his Album of the Month Club subscription” Remember Album of the Month clubs? Watch out! They’re on their way back…
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