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Continue reading →: Taylor SwiftWell, I guess it had to be done. With Ms Swift making all the headlines as her Eras tour arrived in the UK last week and my daughters both there for the first Wembley night, who else could I realistically be listening to this week? But where to start? Taylor…
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Continue reading →: Crowded House
The New Zealand-born brothers, Tim and Neil Finn, have, between them, released no fewer than 39 albums in the 52 years since the older brother, Tim, founded his first band, Split Ends. And that’s just the official studio albums. If you include compilations, live recordings, soundtracks and other collaborations, we’re…
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Continue reading →: beabadoobee
The 2017 debut of the Filipino-born, English singer songwriter, beabadoobee (then just 17-years old), in many ways epitomised Bedroom Pop. The track in question, simply entitled Coffee, leaves us with the wonderful impression of its having been recorded with a hand held microphone on a 1970s cassette recorder. You can…
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Continue reading →: Richard Hawley
From 1980s indie obscurity with Treebound Story, to Britpop B-Listers Longpigs, via a brief spell in Pulp, and on to a solo career spanning 10 albums over 24 years, it’s been quite a ride for Richard Hawley. Having indie/pop luminaries such as Guy Garvey, Jarvis Cocker and Paul Weller in…
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Continue reading →: Bess Atwell
I first discovered Bess Atwell back in 2021 and was instantly drawn to her music. Like Katherine Priddy, she lies at the folkier end of my musical taste and it’s taken me the best part of three years to work out that the singer she reminds me of most of…
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Continue reading →: Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band
Michael Head, and his brother John, in their various musical guises, have been more or less constant companions on my musical journey over the past forty years or so. From the Pale Fountains, through Shack (and a brief interlude as The Magical World Of The Strands) to Michael’s current incarnation…
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Continue reading →: The Pearlfishers
A few years ago, I spent a whole year posting a different song by a Scottish band or artist every day on Facebook. The resulting 365 song playlist was heavily biased in favour of the sort of Indie Pop that I love listening to with plenty of contributions from bands…
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Continue reading →: runo plum
One of the benficial outcomes of the whole pandemic/lockdown thing was arguably the blow that it delivered to the role of middle-aged white men in the process that decides what music gets released and what doesn’t. For the past seventy years or so, A&R men have been telling us what…
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Continue reading →: Camera Obscura
For many music fans, the late, great John Peel was all about gritty, angry, northern bands like The Fall, or obscure, industrial European outfits like Einsturzende Neubauten. It’s all a bit angular; a bit in-your-face; a bit too male… But there was another side to everyone’s favourite DJ; Peel was…
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Continue reading →: Lunar Vacation
Canada has given us Alvvays; New Zealand, The Beths, and Australia, Middle Kids. And when it comes to female-led indie-power pop bands from the USA, we need look no further than Atlanta, Georgia-based, five piece, Lunar Vacation. Formed at High School in 2016 by Grace ‘Gep’ Reparsky and Maggie Geeslin,…
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