Prog

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BUVETTE MIGHT LIVE in metropolitan Paris, but he longs for the breathtaking vistas of Switzerland where he grew up. “I like it, but I’m not going to live here forever,” says the 33-year-old singer whose real name is Cédric Streuli. “I grew up in very

Goldmine

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AUGUST 2021 Allman Brothers Band, Shades of Two Worlds (Orange & Red Swirl, 180 gram, limited), Friday Music Two ● Bad Company, Holy Water (Aqua Blue Opaque, 180 gram, 30th Anniversary Edition, limited), Friday Music Two ● Bangles, Ladies and Gentlem

New Zealand Listener

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Three years ago, on the release of the Chills’ album Snow Bound, Martin Phillipps noted that people were saying “it sounded like the Chills”. His particular style is still evident almost 40 years after the band first appeared out of Dunedin. “If ther

Prog

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“IT’S ABOUT MOTION,” says Playgrounded’s deepthinking synth player, Orestis Zafeiriou of the band’s approach to songwriting. “Our centre is hardly ever a riff,” adds guitarist Michael Kotsirakis, “it’s a sound design structure or a loop that always m

JazzTimes

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Blackbirds Verve No argument here if you thought Things Have Changed, Bettye LaVette’s 2018 tribute to Bob Dylan, deserved its two Grammy nominations, and perhaps even a mantle-size trophy to boot. Still, for all its merits, that album is no match fo

Under the Radar

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There’s a glam swagger permeating the self-titled debut album of Nashville’s Savoy Motel, twisting serpentine psych with Roxy Music-esque flourishes. It’s unlike anything released in 2016, with a steadfastly crafted image to complement the music, and

Prog

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Different Plain WHITE KNIGHT RECORDS With a core of ex-Magenta band members, The C Sides Project is now five albums into its existence. Different Plain is a companion piece to their 2020 concept album Purple Hearts Corner and carries on the tale of t

Prog

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We take you now to a nuclear fallout shelter beneath the headquarters of the Union Bank Of Switzerland in Zürich. This is where instrumental trio Holm have been refining their intoxicating mash-up of post-rock, shoegaze and sound experimentation for

Classic Rock

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Welcome to the first issue of 2020! I hope you’re not still nursing hangovers from your New Year’s celebrations, but if you are, then I hope this issue will help to ease the pain. As 2020 rolls by, so do a lot of important anniversaries in the rock w

Harper's Bazaar Australia

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“I have always loved, and will always love, Kylie.” “[She] changed the way I thought about writing and femininity in music.” “I was listening [to her] a lot when writing ‘Try’.” “[Her album E.mo.tion] made me realise pop music can totally be taken se

Classic Rock

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Live At Trent Poly Sports Hall, Nottingham, 1977 ANGEL AIR/SFM Pub rock’s greatest legacy go back to school days. Slight of stature, massive of voice, Graham Parker could, and should, have been huge. Granted, his recorded output has never exactly dip

Guitar Player

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GROWING UP IN South Carolina, Marcus King found the guitar early in childhood and dug in deep. Sitting in at gigs with his father, blues guitarist Marvin King, taking jazz lessons from session player Steve Watson and absorbing music from hometown her

Prog

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JEPPE HASSERIIS NEVER intended his music to be so personal. The Danish electronic producer, better known as Dynatron, has been weaving fictional sci-fi narratives over dark, futuristic, synthwave since his 2012 debut, Escape Velocity. His second albu

Total Girl

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★ you Decide ’ll each on the play roles in the band. Can anyone already play an instrument? If you’re really interested, would it be worth having some music lessons to learn? ★ of Decide music what you’ kind ll play. Start by covering your fave songs

UNCUT

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1 Lovely Joan 2 Cannily, Cannily 3 My Son Tim 4 Tralee Gaol 5 Shallow Brown 6 Chaney’s Tape Dream 7 Bring Me Home Pt 1 (The Dear Irish Boy) 8 Bring Me Home Pt 2 (I Would Not Live Always) 9 Bring Me Home Pt 3 (An Buachaillin Ban) 10

Prog

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“FROM THE AGE of 14, I was spending most of my time drumming. I wasn’t even doing my school homework!” says Jimmy Pallagrosi, who was introduced to prog at a very young age. “One of the very first prog albums I listened to was The Turn Of A Friendly

NPR

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The Melbourne indie-pop band knows that darkness is best served deceptively, through happy sounds and complicated sentiment.

Rhythm

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How have you coped this year? “In March the gigs started getting cancelled, a couple of tours fell through and the writing was on the wall that this was going to be more than a few weeks off. “On a personal level, I had a crazy year even before COVI

NPR

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Listen to six superb transmissions from the underground, ranging from ambient beats to rugged drum 'n' bass.

UNCUT

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JOHN Moloney, drummer of the free-flowing Massachusetts group Sunburned Hand Of The Man, also doubles as their archivist. For him, presiding over a collection of 300-plus hours of video and recordings of every psych-folk-funk jam in their 24-year exi

UNCUT

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“DAVID Bowie was a friend, a house writer for Essex Music, the publishing company that hosted my own small company. He stopped me in the street once and said, ‘I’ve just heard a song of yours called “Join My Gang”!’ It was a demo I’d done for an arti

You South Africa

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1 star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in 2010 5 Number of Grammys won. She earned her first for best new artist in 2000. Her last one was in 2015 for best pop duo/group performance for the track Say Something with A Great Big World. 8 Number of stu

The Big Issue

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She’s very possibly the most famous tattoo artist alive today. Her perfect alabaster complexion and impeccable, jet-black eyeliner have adorned a thousand makeup counters. She’s been an author, a reality TV star, a business mogul for an international

Prog

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VENUE 229 VENUE 2, LONDON DATE 18/11/2019 “I can’t stay in the dressing room,” admits bassist Andy Marlow just before the band are due onstage. “My fingers are numb from the cold!” This does not bode well for tonight’s performance. Thankfully, though

Future Music

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VIDEO ON FILESILO Having spent far too much time shut in our home offices over the past 18 months, FM jumped at the chance to get back out amongst ‘real’ people at last month’s Brighton Music Conference. While we were there we sat down with local pro

Classic Rock

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Riches from the rock underground Could You Understand Me, is one of the most uncompromising, viciously raw records of any genre released during the 70s. Formed in the then Yugoslavian (now Croatian) town of Cakovec, Fire met as members of a military

Prog

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“We’re like Hinge and Bracket. We always get together for a nice afternoon tea somewhere like a church and put the world to rights,” laughs Rob Reed, describing his friendship with Les Penning, with whom he’s released a new EP. Having recorded EPs of

Prog

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Norwegian metallers return with a vast and heavy second album. In the throbbing engine room of this Norwegian prog metal quintet are twin brothers Christian and Christopher Botteri (guitar and bass respectively). Both former members of influential bl

Hi Fi News

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Bury The Moon One Little Indian TPLP1472CDP Icelandic songwriter Ásgeir composed this, his third album, in a rented summerhouse, creating the songs as basic guitar and keyboard demos before taking them into the studio and fleshing them out with addit

Classic Rock

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Ladies W.C., Souvenir Records, Venezuela, 1968. Multicoloured or black vinyl version £1,400 + Ladies W.C.’s moniker was aimed at mocking strident censorship laws of their native Venezuela. Bassist/vocalist Stephen Scott was born in Caracas to America