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TRAFFIC - JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE DELUXE EDITION

TRAFFIC - JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE DELUXE EDITION

Winwood and pals’ pastoral funk apogee, remastered...

JOSH T PEARSON - LAST OF THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN

JOSH T PEARSON - LAST OF THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN

Lift To Experience man goes solo. Bleakly brilliant...

THE UNTHANKS - LAST

THE UNTHANKS - LAST

The Northumbrian five-piece shatter folk’s borders, as this expansive yet austere fourth proves...

THE STROKES - ANGLES

THE STROKES - ANGLES

New York’s finest finally get back to work, with excellent results...

QUEEN - THE FIRST FIVE ALBUMS

QUEEN - THE FIRST FIVE ALBUMS

Regal treasures of The People’s Band. Scoff at your peril...

PRIMAL SCREAM - SCREAMADELICA

PRIMAL SCREAM - SCREAMADELICA

Still astonishing 20 years on...

REM - COLLAPSE INTO NOW

REM - COLLAPSE INTO NOW

Sounding more like themselves again...

ELBOW - BUILD A ROCKET BOYS!

ELBOW - BUILD A ROCKET BOYS!

Garvey & co’s fifth LP is a work of hymnal beauty...

TIM BUCKLEY - TIM BUCKLEY DELUXE EDITION

TIM BUCKLEY - TIM BUCKLEY DELUXE EDITION

Troubadour’s fine debut, with unheard demos...

BEADY EYE - DIFFERENT GEAR, STILL SPEEDING

BEADY EYE - DIFFERENT GEAR, STILL SPEEDING

Liam Gallagher’s bunker mentality bears fruit on post-Oasis debut...

GIL SCOTT-HERON & JAMIE T - WE'RE NEW HERE

GIL SCOTT-HERON & JAMIE T - WE'RE NEW HERE

Putney prodigy remodels the jazz-soul veteran’s 2010 album. Result? A raw, stripped-down triumph...

THE LOW ANTHEM - SMART FLESH

THE LOW ANTHEM - SMART FLESH

Beautifully muted follow-up to Oh My God, Charlie Darwin...

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - GO GO BOOTS

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - GO GO BOOTS

The Truckers’ ninth provides a country-soul twist in the tale...

GRUFF RHYS - HOTEL SHAMPOO

GRUFF RHYS - HOTEL SHAMPOO

SFA man sees what condition his conditioner’s in...

Club Uncut: Hiss Golden Messenger - February 9, 2011

Hiss Golden Messenger
Slaughtered Lamb, London

“I’ll do my best to put you in a...

STRANGE POWERS - STEPHEN MERRIT & THE MAGNETIC FIELDS

STRANGE POWERS - STEPHEN MERRIT & THE MAGNETIC FIELDS

The quixotic songwriter, profiled in relentless close-up...

PJ HARVEY - LET ENGLAND SHAKE

PJ HARVEY - LET ENGLAND SHAKE

Polly Harvey shifts from the personal to the national...

MUSIC DVD: LEMMY

MUSIC DVD: LEMMY

Hard shell, soft centre: the Motörhead man laid bare in warts’n’all doc… well almost...

GREGG ALLMAN - LOW COUNTRY BLUES

GREGG ALLMAN - LOW COUNTRY BLUES

Big, back-to-roots comeback with T Bone Burnett supervising...

EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - THE HARVEST YEARS 1969 - 1973

EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - THE HARVEST YEARS 1969 - 1973

Out, hippies, out! Four CD set captures the righteous, blues-rocking anger of Warwickshire’s...

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Bruce Springsteen, Tame Impala, Rodriguez, George Clinton, John Fogerty, Prince and George Jones in new Uncut


I would have bought the issue of Melody Maker in which I first read about Bruce Springsteen on my way into the art school in Newport, where in March 1973 I was in my last term, only a few months away from moving to London and not long after that fetching up on MM as a junior reporter/feature...