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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....

Craig Finn - Clear Heart Full Eyes

Craig Finn - Clear Heart Full Eyes

It didn’t require a telescope to spot Craig Finn’s first solo record glinting on the horizon....

Talking Heads - Chronology

Talking Heads - Chronology

“David Byrne, all neurasthenic nettles pointing inward. He looked like someone who’d just OD’d...

Hiss Golden Messenger - Poor Moon

Hiss Golden Messenger - Poor Moon

MC Taylor, a songwriter and a student of folklore, is not a declamatory man. His songs are...

Roy Wood - Music Box

Roy Wood - Music Box

It is a sad fact of life that a man from any walk of life – even the often preposterous world of...

Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson: Deluxe Edition

Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson: Deluxe Edition

Paris, 1968. On the set of a nondescript film called Slogan, 22 year old English actress Jane...

The Kinks - The Kinks In Mono

The Kinks - The Kinks In Mono

This comes in a cute Dansette-style box stuffed with ten albums of antique Kinkorama and Meet...

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish & Siamese Dream

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish & Siamese Dream

Before the rampant egomania, before the bloated double albums, before the mass band purgings and...

Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Return Of The Spectacular Singing Songbook

Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Return Of The Spectacular Singing Songbook

Elvis Costello wasn’t himself 25 years ago, the musician credits on the two albums he released...

Howlin Wolf - Smokestack Lightning The Complete Chess Masters

Howlin Wolf - Smokestack Lightning The Complete Chess Masters

4CD box set charting the ascendance of the blues’ most distinctive voice. O-wooo!

The Little Willies - For The Good Times

The Little Willies - For The Good Times

Second collection of old-school country and western covers from Norah Jones and co. ..By sheer...

The Black Keys - El Camino

The Black Keys - El Camino

Ten years into the game, Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach add funk and soul to their potent blues...

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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...