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Live Reports

Live Report: two nights with Black Peaks

14/02/201914/02/2019 Dave Musson

When a good band comes to town and you’re available, you go and watch that band, right? If they’re a really good band you might even watch them a couple of times in the same year if they pass by your way enough times.

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Revisiting

Revisiting Forever by Code Orange

11/02/201911/02/2019 Dave Musson

Normally, we leave it a bit longer than two years to revisit an album. But the subject of this write-up is no ordinary record, so we don’t feel bound by our own rules.

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Live Reports

Live Report: Milk Teeth, Conjurer and the futility of genre

31/01/201931/01/2019 Dave Musson

If you’re going to trek to Milton Keynes – well, Wolverton to be precise – on a frozen Wednesday night in January, you’d want a pretty good reason.

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Revisiting

Revisiting Permission To Land by The Darkness

24/01/201924/01/2019 Dave Musson

I can pinpoint the moment I fell in love with Permission To Land, which, weirdly, came before it was released or before I would actually get to hear the whole thing.

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Reviews

Review: Puppy – The Goat

22/01/201922/01/2019 Dave Musson

Debut albums are a funny thing, aren’t they? They are your means to announce yourself to the world, to make a mark and set out your stall.

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Revisiting

Revisiting The War Of Art by American Head Charge

22/01/201922/01/2019 Dave Musson

Cast your mind back to 2002. In the world of heavy, guitar-based music, the freaks were in charge. Nu-metal’s rise had thrust the alternative forward and made it mainstream.

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Live Reports

Live Report: Palm Reader play Braille in full

16/12/201808/01/2019 Dave Musson

Our favourite band playing our album of the year in full? Of course we were there – well, one of us was able to make it anyway.

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Albums Of The Year

Dave Musson’s Albums of the Year 2018: 10 to 1

09/12/201808/01/2019 Dave Musson

And so we move into my Top 10 Albums of 2018, and what a Top 10 they are.

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Albums Of The Year

Dave Musson’s Albums of the Year 2018: 20 to 11

09/12/201808/01/2019 Dave Musson

It’s that time of year again. Here are numbers 20 to 11 in my Top 20 Albums of 2018.

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Albums Of The Year

Dave Musson’s Albums of the Year 2017: 10 to 1

17/12/201708/01/2019 Dave Musson

Considering the strength of the albums that didn’t make this Top 10 – click here for numbers 20 to 11 and for Chris Nee’s picks – it goes without saying that I hold the following ten records in very high esteem.

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Albums Of The Year

Dave Musson’s Albums of the Year 2017: 20 to 11

17/12/201708/01/2019 Dave Musson

The High Fidelity generation loves to make lists. Top five this, top ten that. But 2017 has made life difficult for those of us who like to collate our favourite albums of each year.

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Albums Of The Year

Dave Musson’s Albums of the Year 2016: 10 to 1

14/12/201608/01/2019 Dave Musson

Here’s where it gets really interesting: the best albums from one of the best years I can remember.

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