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The Story Of Lovers Rock

The Story Of Lovers Rock

Smart documentary unzips a hidden chapter of British reggae...

Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral

Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral

The grunge-blues giant returns, now digging deeper grooves and - shock! - nu disco...

Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur

Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur

The Canadian went looking for a new producer. What she found, on her fourth album, was love.

Throbbing Gristle: the industrial pioneers, reissued

Throbbing Gristle: the industrial pioneers, reissued

Their unsavoury reputation precedes them, but the photo of Throbbing Gristle on the sleeve of...

This One’s For Him - A Tribute To Guy Clark

This One’s For Him - A Tribute To Guy Clark

All-star cap-doffer to one of the uncrowned kings of American roots...

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake: 12 Short Films By Seamus Murphy

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake: 12 Short Films By Seamus Murphy

On the generally acclaimed Let England Shake, Harvey gave her music a bony,...

Paul McCartney - Kisses On The Bottom

Paul McCartney - Kisses On The Bottom

Sir Paul’s romantic, (and loving) take on standards...

Black Power Mixtape

Black Power Mixtape

Black America’s militant years, captured on rediscovered Swedish documentaries. Right on!

Chimes Of Freedom - The Songs Of Bob Dylan

Chimes Of Freedom - The Songs Of Bob Dylan

Collection of covers of Bob songs; some good, some not so good.

Calexico - Selections From Road Atlas 1998-2011

Calexico - Selections From Road Atlas 1998-2011

A fine digest of Calexico in a handsome, limited edition box set...

Pearl Jam Twenty

Pearl Jam Twenty

Cameron Crowe's feature length documentary celebrates the grunge legends...

Cabaret Voltaire - Johnny Yesno Redux

Cabaret Voltaire - Johnny Yesno Redux

Cabaret Voltaire's Steel City noir, now rewired with extras...

Public Image Limited - the complete reissues

Public Image Limited - the complete reissues

John Lydon's post-Pistols back catalogue re-released...

The Blues Accordin' To Lightnin' Hopkins

The Blues Accordin' To Lightnin' Hopkins

Intimate portrait of a legendary bluesman...

Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas

Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas

His first studio album for eight years finds Cohen addressing waning physical powers and moral...

Johnny Cash - Bootleg Vol.3: Live Around The World

Johnny Cash - Bootleg Vol.3: Live Around The World

The man in black takes it to the masses across three decades and two CDs...

Dave Davies - Hidden Treasures

Dave Davies - Hidden Treasures

Whatever it was meant to be, it wasn’t fun. In the closing years of the 1960s, the Kinks’...

Rolling Stones - Some Girls Live In Texas

Rolling Stones - Some Girls Live In Texas

It’s 1978 and the Rolling Stones have just left the soggy vagueness of their...

The Who - Quadrophenia Director's Cut

The Who - Quadrophenia Director's Cut

Haul out the Vespa! Jimmy the Mod rides again on two and five CD reissues of Townshend’s 1973...

White Denim - Last Day Of Summer

White Denim - Last Day Of Summer

White Denim, as their frenetic live shows would suggest, are not a band much given to idling....

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The Lost Genius Of Paul Siebel


After spending last weekend catching up with what seems like a veritable deluge of great new music, I had a yen for some old favourites this weekend, among them two albums by the cult singer-songwriter, Paul Siebel, Woodsmoke & Oranges and Jack-Knife Gypsy.

It’s sadly probable that...

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