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Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave famously documented his unease with the ageing process in Grinderman’s best song, ‘No Pussy Blues’ – “My face is finished, my body’s gone…” Grinderman are now retired as a recording outfit, but...
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in INTL Reviews, Albums (2013 / 14)
A David Kilgour Primer - Here Come the C
New Zealand singer/guitarist David Kilgour’s name is seldom mentioned without “(The Clean)” following, as more people around the world have heard of the immensely influential Kiwi trio than of Kilgour as a solo artist.
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in BS, Features, INTL Reviews, Other/Classic (2013 / 14)
Yo La Tengo's Latest
Yo La Tengo as a band is older than Jim Morrison ever got to be. Next year, Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley will have been playing together under that name for 30 years. James...
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in INTL Reviews, Albums (2013 / 14)
Backmasking, Phonetic Reversal and just
CS Yeh Goes Pop?
To say that CS Yeh – a.k.a. C Spencer Yeh, a.k.a. Chih-Fu Spencer Yeh – has collaborated with a lot of musicians in the past decade is an epic understatement. Let’s put it this...
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in INTL Reviews, Albums (2012 / 11)
The Magic Band @ Parkteatret 10.06.2012
Trespassers William
It was summer 1995 in Brisbane, Australia. The instrumental trio Dirty Three were playing on a 33-degree night, and it was even hotter inside the steamy venue. There was a rumour that Nick Cave...
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in INTL Reviews, Albums (2012 / 09)
DAN DEACON
Whether you loved or hated Dan Deacon's 2007 breakthrough album Spiderman of the Rings – it annoyed me, for the most part – you had to give the man his due. Spiderman was a...
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in INTL Reviews, Albums (2012 / 08)
S ND Y P RL RS - Rex
The licensing hours in Berlin are very liberal. Not for them the impending doom of every bar in the city closing by 3am. Once, at about 2:45 am, myself and a friend entered a...
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in INTL Reviews, Albums (2012 / 07)
CAN: THE LOST TAPES
Many years ago a friend of mine gave me a burned CD of The Beatles' White album. It was his preferred sequence of about half the tracks - a double long-player with diversions and...
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in INTL Reviews (2012 / 06)