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"what'd happen if Richard and Linda Thompson were from Boston and grew up on...
(I well fancied Chick Graning, ever since I saw Anastasia Screamed support the Muses one time. Scarce were his next band and were great and are now nearly entirely forgotten. Not round these parts...
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"On the one and infinite, again" - PUBLIC ENEMY, ALBUM REVIEW, 1994, MELODY...
PUBLIC ENEMY MUSE SICK N HOUR MESS AGE Def Jam/Island IF growing up black is a process of losing hope then in the past few years a lot of us have grown up real fast. It’s not even about alienation from...
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"a deep faith in pessimism" - KENICKIE, live review, 1998
One of those reviews where I actually end up thinking - what gives me the right to say this shit? Me n my wife met at an Orlando/Kenickie gig in 97. I pushed in front of her at the bar and she thought...
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"a little bit of pity, but not much" - THE ENEMY, STREETS IN THE SKY, FULL...
(Well, The Quietus did a diamond cutting job, I blogged the offcuts, thought what the hell, put the offcuts back in & here's the original. Down to you how YOU think it should've run [The title...
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"fingers twitching between roach and razor" - GRAVEDIGGAZ, ICE CUBE, Live...
(note - can't imagine another mag where dissidence to 'higher ups' would be so tolerated. whole paper going mad about g-funk at the time and like a stroppy sod I have to stick my elbows out. looking...
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Couple Of Recent Pieces - TWIN SHADOW & A.R. KANE
Wrote about the wondrous Twin Shadow for Electronic Magazine, reprinted at Drowned In Sound hereWrote about A.R.Kane and their fantastic 'Complete Singles' boxset here for The Quietus
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PULP and GRACE JONES in HYDE PARK, Directionless Cut
(note - Luke Turner @The Quietus did an amazing job editing this overlong mulch down to what mattered. But this is what I had to say in full - overstressing the corporatisation of festivals without a...
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Neil Kulkarni interviewed by Kristian Sanders 2009
As part of a unit called 'Working Freelance In The Media' one of my Radio Production students decided to drag a real-life freelancer to the radio-studios at college and interview them about...
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"I agree with everything you say, but the way you say it stinks" - CREDIT TO...
[note: For the first month I was a critic I still hadn’t really discovered what it was I wanted to say. I wasn’t given anything I could get my teeth into. Then went to see Credit To The Nation in...
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SINGLES REVIEWS PAGE, DECEMBER 2nd 1995, MELODY MAKER
SINGLE OF THE WEEK 1.MORCHEEBATRIGGER HIPPIE (China) I KNOW nothing about Morcheeba. If it was still summer, you’d hear this as a smooth, slightly stoned shuffle across the road to the park, a record...
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HIP HOP COLUMN DJ MAGAZINE LATE SEPTEMBER 2008
Baby JLiesAbstract Urban***Ace and what's ace here is the shamelessness – the way 'Lies' has no compunction in swinging in with it's heavily-harmonized chorus, latching itself to your brainstem like...
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"up there with Gucci Mane, Wacka and Gorilla Zoe in the current glut of...
DubbleedgeThe Trilogy/Choices ChoicesHidden Agenda8/10Love DJ IQ’s loopadelia ‘neath ‘The Trilogy’ – sounds like a shard of prime Algerian psyche from the late 60s, rotated atop a thumping, sweltering...
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"Eternal youth forever" - VARIOUS ARTISTS TIGHTEN UP VOLUME 1 – DELUXE...
(Trojan)Dissolve. Into the ether. Surveying pop history like Jesus on the hill, wondering who to bless with a pentapeptide spillage of immortality. Eternal youth forever so fuck the artists, fuck the...
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"Heart-explodingly good" - COME, Live, Camden, 1994, Melody Maker review.
If only cos I find myself writing about Come again for the next installment of New Nineties. A blast from the distant past. My favourite band of the 90s fullstop.
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"burns yo'ass like the map on Bonanza" - THE STOOGES, "The Weirdness", album...
The Stooges The Weirdness (Virgin)“Rock critics won't like this much” drawls the Ig 30 seconds in and he's gottabekiddin. Critics cream themselves insideout over restaged battles & this biz we call...
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"a brief brilliant wonka-vite birth/perfection/death cycle" - WC AND MADD...
WC AND MADD CIRCLECURB SERVIN’Payday JUST when you thought it was safe to go back in a hip-hop club . . . If G-funk has died on the vine this year, it’s really because what made it great was a...
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"acid & mushrooms & amyl & anger" - everything I done writ about LOOP
(from 2006 Plan B Mag) Loop Heaven’s End/Fade OutChapter 22What a world what a world what a big world to be drowned in: Loop were always just a little bit more engulfing, hostile, darker, scarier than...
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