* FIRST REVIEW ANYWHERE – Music Republic Magazine’s Tip For Success * A new name to me. Brighton-based, Northampton-born...
Archive - June 2017
Now you are talking my language…I have been a huge fan of Mr Lang since I almost drove my car off of a sheer drop in thick fog on the Isle...
* Ahhhhh, they really are done. The Maccabees say goodbye with their very last tour, “Live For The Last Time – The Farewell Shows”...
You’d be hard pushed to find a stronger and more eclectic line-up of retro artists than this summer’s big bash on Clapham Common in London; Lets...
I like biographies and autobiographies. As a journalist and music writer, I can usually tell when it has been written by the subject...
Who this guy wrote songs with, had hits with and who he was married to for many years should NOT be the angle here. It might well be a...
For a guy who tragically died in a motorcycle accident at the tender age of 24, and who has been gone 45 years, Duane Allman made a huge...
Sport and music often goes hand in hand. In this case, it goes glove in glove, so to speak. In the autumn of 1974, Muhammad Ali and...
Run The Jewels have extended their ‘Run The World’ tour with newly added UK and European dates. They will be joined by very special guest Danny Brown. Tickets...
* Exclusive first review * I don’t usually “do” ambience stuff; the chill out genre, totally instrumental sounds where it’s all whale noises and birds...
I don’t do hype. I am not here to do a publicist’s job. I don’t “sell” artists or their wares. I don’t give away free adverts. What...
Jaco Pastorius needs little introduction. This album is a newly discovered recording of Jaco’s New York Word Of Mouth Big...
On a sticker attached to the front cover of my copy of this new record, it says this is a “newly unearthed jazz gem.” Is it...
Sir Elton John was back to full heath and in fine form when he performed to a packed Genting Arena in Birmingham, the third show in a come-back after...
A first-of-its kind two disc Labelle anthology that includes key tracks from the pioneering group recorded between 1973-1976...
Now you are talking. The baddest bass man out there. Saw him on stage with George Duke opening for Cameo, at what was then called...
This is an unusual one well worth dipping in to. The first-ever compilation to tell the story of the UK’s Mushroom Records...
The Cramps were a wild American rockabilly band, formed in 1976 and active until 2009. The band split after the death of lead...
An often overlooked rock and ‘all sorts’ outfit, Fandango originally formed in 1976, when singer Joe Lynn Turner hooked...
A really captivating three-disc collection which offers up no less than 87 tracks, and some really under the radar stuff here that...
Expanded reissue of the 1977 album “Play Me Out” by ‘The Voice Of Rock’ Glenn Hughes. The album is now augmented with a second disc...
The legendary Mr Steven Van Zandt aka Little Steven, drops his first solo album for almost two decades, re-working songs spanning his...
After I sold my entire vinyl record collection a few years ago, I began to regret the loss of some of it instantly. I have managed...
Such a lovely album. The Canadian twosome drop their seventh thus far, and they feel it is THE album they were always...
Twenty Two, Anne Street, Dublin was the intimate venue chosen by The Coronas to preview their fifth studio album. “Trust The Wire” released...










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