It’s been a long time coming, but they’re back! The Corals new album Roots And Echoes is set for release on the 6th of August, but you can listen to it in full over on Columbia Records. Personally, I’d rather hear the whole thing when I get my copy, but of course I couldn’t resist [...]
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Where the hell is Patrick Wolf?!?! I know the shortlist was announced almost two weeks ago but, yup, I’m still angry about this. Is the Mercury panel or whoever they are really trying to say that the Arctic Monkeys’ Favourite Worst Nightmare is more of an accomplishment than The Magic Position?! Oh, dear. I’ve said [...]
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It seems Joy Division is all the rage right now, what with the Ian Curtis biopic Control all set to wow music dorks everywhere and, as I noticed this morning while updating our Releases page, a new boxset of some kind coming out in September. I didn’t know much about music history, especially things like [...]
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At a magnificent 8 feet tall, 4 feet wide and 9.5 inches thick, last saturday Collinsville, Illinois aka home of the World’s Largest Ketchup Bottle (??) will probably make it into the Guinness Book Of Records with the World’s Largest Ketchup Packet. That’s a whole lotta Heinz. Stompin’ Tom Connors – The Ketchup Song
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C.L. Smooth is a legend based on his collaboration with Pete Rock at the beginning of the 1990s (think “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)”). However, following the break up of the duo in 1995, Smooth sunk away into the musical background, releasing isolated tracks here and there and rarely even appearing as a guest on [...]
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