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It’s the first Grammy nod to The Cranberries illustrious career… SHOP FOR IN THE END NOW The Cranberries’ final album In The End has been nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2020…
Review: A Flock Of Seagulls – Inflight – The Extended Essentials
In 2018, the original A Flock Of Seagulls reformed for the first time since 1984 to rework their hits with The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra for the album Ascension. A year…
Reissue: Echo & The Bunnymen
Significantly, this collection of 21 Echo & The Bunnymen tracks are from the very beginning of the bands existence… Such was the mutual love-in between Echo & The Bunnymen and…
TLC Reunion Announced
Tickets for the TLC reunion go on sale 10am on Wednesday 20 November 2019… Today TLC, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the culture-shifting album CrazySexCool announce their return to the…
Joe Mount Interview: Metronomy Forever
Fresh from celebrating the 10th anniversary of their landmark album Nights Out and producing Robyn’s emotional comeback LP Honey, Metronomy leader Joe Mount is a man on a mission – how to mark…
Review: The Rembrandts – Via Satellite
Back together with their first new songs since 2001, The Rembrandts don’t sound a day older, probably because their brand of American college rock is essentially timeless. Opener How Far…
Review: Fever Ray – Live At The Troxy
Musically speaking, Karin Dreijer’s Far Eastern proclivities often dominate this Fever Ray 2018 show, much as they did David Sylvian’s Japan recordings. Part Of Us is full of Oriental melodic…
Review: Body Of Light – Time To Kill
It’s perhaps symptomatic of our cultural divide that in America, where brothers Alex and Andrew Jarson grew up, Body Of Light receive specialist tags like EBM, darkwave and industrial. In…
Review: Mabel – High Expectations
“Fuck my life,” Mabel McVey insists on this debut, but, in truth, that seems a trifle melodramatic. After all, 2017 gave her two Platinum awards, and there were more Gold…
Review: The Bluetones – Science & Nature/The Singles
By 2000, The Bluetones were commercially sliding. Adrift in the post-Britpop/pre-Strokes wilderness, nobody was much bothered. Although Science & Nature was only their third album, they were already deemed passé.…