It was way back in the early 2000s that I first heard about Cheer-Accident (deliciously and legendarily named after retail get well card descriptor labels, for cards for those recovering from a mishap, I understand), and they had already been…
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Sometimes it takes a small nudge to make the effort to listen to something. The New Death Cult had been sitting in my “to listen to” pile for months, but I kept putting them off. There was something about the…
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You all know who Peter Buck is, but maybe Luke Haines is one of those names you’ve heard but can’t quite pin down? He was the guitarist and frontman for reluctant Britpop outliers The Auteurs, who were a lot better…
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Folk music has always been evolving, but there seems to me to have been an increasing trend in recent years to not so much create contemporary rearrangements as to completely reframe traditional sounds into a modern framework. One of my…
View More Fós – Rinne Mé Iarraidh EP
Time Shift Accident; what does that band name say to you? Perhaps it suggests a seventies-obsessed sci-fi band with a Hawkwind fixation bent on recording a concept album about Einstein’s theory of relativity and the potential for time travel mis-haps?…
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When confronted with an album by a French band, which appears to have a distinctly Indian theme, I was intrigued before I had even begun listening. It all made sense after a little internet investigation (that is, I found the…
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Sponsored posts on Facebook. Always there, rarely given attention. I admit to ignoring most anything unsolicited in my feed, but over the last few days, as an experiment to see just how well Facebook is helping target these posts to…
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Marco Bernard and Kimmo Pörsti are, respectively, bass player and drummer of The Samurai of Prog, a band formed by Italian-born Marco in Finland as part of a musical project creating prog tribute box sets. Joined by American multi-instrumentalist Steve…
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In this update we feature: • Bird Problems – Beyond the Nest • Daïda – La Passion Du Cri, Pt 1 • Feather – Convalesence • Nova Charisma – Exposition II • OZO – Saturn • VASA – Heroics Everyday…
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I love The Pineapple Thief. I’ve been following them since 2014’s Magnolia (and yes, I know I was late to the party) and have been catching up with their back catalogue and new releases over the last 6 years. (Fun…
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