DIFFICULT JOURNEY TO A SMOOTH SOUND That 'difficult second album' is one of the clichés of rock music, and like most clichés it ju...
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Live Review: Michael Monroe, Town & Country, 22nd February, 1990
SAX PARTY Will the real MIKE MONROE please stand up? At most gigs in London you can be sure of finding one pouting peroxide Wannabe but...
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Album Review: Big Country, "No Place Like Home"
Their first album of the nineties closes the pages of the last decade and opens a new chapter i n a style more based in traditional roots. ...
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Riff Raff History: One-Band Spin-Off Mags
By the mid-1990s, Riff Raff had more or less run its course. In its later stages, it dropped the by-lines and became increasingly a rehash ...
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Live Review: The Quireboys, Hammersmith Odeon, April, 1990
HORNY DEVILS!? At long last it's my turn to cast my beady eye on the QUIREBOYS. Commercial hype and success has led to the boy...
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Album Review: Foo Fighters, "Wasting Light"
It's been a while since we've heard something from the Foo Fighters that shook us from head to toe, but with this their 7th studio ...
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Album Review: UFO, "Seven Deadly"
UFO's 21st studio album Seven Deadly represents a return to the classy hard rock sound upon which their reputation was originally fou...
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Revenge Recommends: "Israel" by Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees had a long and critically-acclaimed career (1976-1996), but their golden period was the early 80s, especially t...
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Album Review: Saxon, "Call To Arms"
Call To Arms is the sum of the 30 years Saxon have been riding the proverbial wheels of steel. Amidst the galloping, anthemic heavy m...
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Interview: Jack Barnett, These New Puritans
The Noiseniks and Taiko Fetishists Don't Really Want War These New Puritans 2008 debut album Beat Pyramid established the emba...
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NEWS: UK SUBS SELL OUT - SACK DRUMMER FOR MEAN TWEET
Flabby UK Subs "leader" Charlie Harper, 77, thinking about his beer money Punk is truly dead when you hear the UK Subs have gone a...
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Album Review: Magnum, "On the Thirteenth Day"
Magnum return with a much anticipated studio album that, in addition to delighting their sizable and loyal fan base, may offer this hard-...
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Video Review: Nicko McBrain, "Rhythms of the Beast"
My worst nightmare came true, a drum solo in my own front room. What git gave me this to review? (you're fired - Ed) Personally I...
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Album Review: KK'S PRIEST, "SERMONS OF THE SINNER"
Didn’t K.K. Downing leave JUDAS PRIEST like five minutes ago? Holy crap, it’s been a whole decade? Of course, I’m being facetious, but i...
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PREVIEW: NATURAL REQUIREMENT
RELEASE are a Danish combo. They were founded way back in the 70s by guitarists Ian Roger. With the addition and subtraction of various memb...
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Interview: Anna Calvi
English-Italian diva pens torch songs for the new millennium With her hard-to-pin-down sound, bee-sting lips and bottomless blue ey...
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PREVIEW: IN THE "DANGER" ZONE
Heavy melodic rockers Danger are a 5-piece outfit from Glasgow with a relatively strong following up and down the country. The band feature...
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ALBUM REVIEW: DEAD BOYS, "YOUNG, LOUD, AND SNOTTY"
Back during the halcyon, freewheeling, non-PC, “fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke” days of the original punk rock from the 70s, when, a...
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Live Review: Claytown Troupe, Marquee, 27th January, 1990
Wild West Troupers The Marquee is packed, a sweaty heaving mass of rockers from all across the spectrum. They're here to witness t...
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ALBUM REVIEW: SUBFIRE, "DEFINE THE SINNER"
If nothing else, I’m surprised when a band has been together for seventeen years, and is only now releasing their first studio album, es...
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