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THE FUGS - TENDERNESS JUNCTION/IT CRAWLED INTO MY HAND, HONEST

THE FUGS - TENDERNESS JUNCTION/IT CRAWLED INTO MY HAND, HONEST

Underground, overground: two subversive major label salvos from New York’s folk-punk-poets. Of...

WIRE - RED BARKED TREE

WIRE - RED BARKED TREE

Subversion, great tunes and swelling guitars: art-rock theorists return to the source material...

THE DECEMBERISTS - THE KING IS DEAD

THE DECEMBERISTS - THE KING IS DEAD

Uplifting, melodic sixth is the Portland, Oregon conceptualists’ most immediate work...

HANK WILLIAMS - THE COMPLETE MOTHER'S BEST COLLECTION... PLUS

HANK WILLIAMS - THE COMPLETE MOTHER'S BEST COLLECTION... PLUS

Self-raising sand! Staggering 16-disc time capsule, featuring 72 complete radio shows, all...

LAMBCHOP - NIXON & IS A WOMAN DELUXE EDITIONS

LAMBCHOP - NIXON & IS A WOMAN DELUXE EDITIONS

One lush masterpiece, and its inscrutable follow-up, reissued with extras...

SUN CITY GIRLS - FUNERAL MARIACHI

SUN CITY GIRLS - FUNERAL MARIACHI

Their final album, but a great introduction to a world of esoteric, hallucinatory music...

TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS - DAMN THE TORPEDOES

TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS - DAMN THE TORPEDOES

Their breakthrough: platinum-coated rock’n’roll...

AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS - A MONSTROUS.... VOL 3

AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS - A MONSTROUS.... VOL 3

Further far-out adventures in crate-digging exotica...

STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE THREE, NORTHERN AGGRESSION

STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE THREE, NORTHERN AGGRESSION

Dizzying third long-player from Dream Syndicate mainman’s main band...

SUEDE - THE BEST OF SUEDE

SUEDE - THE BEST OF SUEDE

The rise and fall of Brettpop, over two discs of singles, b-sides and album tracks...

DUFFY - ENDLESSLY

DUFFY - ENDLESSLY

Welsh songstress excels – with the help of Albert Hammond and The Roots...

Primal Scream, Olympia, London, November 26, 2010

Primal Scream have long held firm to the belief that the past is a hostile...

MUSIC DVD: GRUFF RHYS - SEPERADO!

MUSIC DVD: GRUFF RHYS - SEPERADO!

Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys tracks his famous relation in Argentina...

JENNY & JONNY - I'M HAVING FUN NOW

JENNY & JONNY - I'M HAVING FUN NOW

The divine Ms Lewis and her beau play pop...

SANDY DENNY - SANDY DENNY

SANDY DENNY - SANDY DENNY

Mammoth 19CD box shows sheer width and depth of singer’s talent...

GIANT SAND - BLURRY BLUE MOUNTAIN

GIANT SAND - BLURRY BLUE MOUNTAIN

25 years on, Howe Gelb’s band are still a vital force...

BRIAN ENO - SMALL CRAFT ON A MILK SEA

BRIAN ENO - SMALL CRAFT ON A MILK SEA

Back to what he does best – and on the perfect label...

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - THE PROMISE, THE DARKNESS...STORY

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - THE PROMISE, THE DARKNESS...STORY

The original classic remastered. A documentary. Two more live DVDs. Oh, and 21 outtakes… The...

THE JAM - SOUND EFFECTS DELUXE REISSUE

THE JAM - SOUND EFFECTS DELUXE REISSUE

Now with tape hiss! Remastering reveals Weller’s ’60s obsession in detail...

BOB DYLAN - THE ORIGINAL MONO RECORDINGS

BOB DYLAN - THE ORIGINAL MONO RECORDINGS

The first eight albums, in one channel and one box. You know the songs, of course. But hear him...

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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...