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Click to read my latest Albums column on Whiteboard:
Hello and welcome to the seaside. I’ve been down in sunny Brighton enjoying the new music at The Great Escape festival but, alongside my shades and bikini, I packed this week’s releases to deliver Sunday’s Albums Round Up to you as usual.
My Album of the Week is from Boats….
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Hello and welcome to this week’s Albums Round Up. Like a tree spreading skywards and bearing blossom we’ve got some beautiful music spreading throughout the column this week.
My Album of the Week is Curiosity by Wampire. Opening up with ‘The Hearse’, an upbeat synth…
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Hello and welcome to the latest Albums Round Up. It’s Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK so that means pre-summer sunburn, plenty of drinking and the first barbecues of the year. There’s plenty of bangers sizzling on the barbecue of new music this week, so let’s fire up the coals and get on…
NEW albums column by me, on Whiteboard:
Hello and welcome to this week’s Albums Round Up. Good things come in pairs don’t they? Like sunglasses, shoes, gloves and nostrils. This week’s column has a pair of pairs for your musical delight.
My Album of the Week is Bigfoot by Cayucas. The band’s…
Click to read my column feat. Born Ruffians, Junip, Ian McCulloch, The American Scene, Dead Can Dance, and Josh Kumra.
Bored Nothing, Fossil Collective, Generationals, Kurt Vile, Port St Willow, Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk, Dear Reader, and Mike Marlin all feature in my latest Albums column on The Whiteboard Project.
Click to read my latest column on Whiteboard, with Filthy Boy, Bleached, Cold War Kids, The Carnival Kids, The Black Angels, The Flaming Lips, British Sea Power, Low Sea, Mighty Mouse, Hypermagic, and Transit.
Diamond Rugs, The Growlers, The Strokes, Retro Stefson, Harper Simon, The Smoking Hearts, James Yuill all feature.
With Night Moves, Deptford Goth, And So I Watch You From Afar, Marnie Stern, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and Billy Bragg.
Click to read my latest column, feat. Fiction, Phil Odgers, The Cribs, Moddi, and Chelsea Light Moving.
Click to read my latest Whiteboard Albums column, feat. Parenthetical Girls, Klak Tik, Shannon Whitworth, Laura Mvula, Alan Bonner and Eric Burdon.
Click to read my latest column featuring Sunshine, Doldrums, Palma Violets, Balthazar, To Kill A King, Such Gold, Me, Caitlin Rose, and The Plea.
Click to read my latest Albums column on Whiteboard, with Fawn Spots and Cumstain, Mazes, Ra Ra Riot, Apparat, Bentcousin and Iceage.
Click to read my latest column with Darwin Deez, Fimber Bravo, Dead Wolf Club, The Bitter Springs, and Bullet For My Valentine.
Click to read my latest column, featuring Veronica Falls, Jim James, UMO, Olof Arnalds, and The Virginmarys. Exclusive to The Whiteboard Project

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