Recent Ace Records Releases by Ian Johnston – May 2013
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Here are a few more vital recent releases from Ace, probably one of the best reissue labels in the world. By Ian Johnston.
Read MoreMick Harvey: The Lexington, London – live review
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In support of his recently released album FOUR (Acts of Love) (which we reviewed here) Mick Harvey’s been over in the UK for a couple of shows, one at I’ll Be Your Mirror and one at The Lexington. Louder Than War’s Ian Johnston caught this, the Lexington show for us.
Read MoreMore Recent Ace Records Releases by Ian Johnston
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More vital recent releases from Ace Records, probably one of the best reissue labels in the world. By Ian Johnston. Various Artists – Finders Keepers: Motown Girls 1961-67 Impeccably compiled, researched and noted by Keith Hughes, together with Ace’s Mick [...]
Read MorePoint Blank – film review
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Englishman John Boorman’s innovative and atmospheric second movie – which seemingly came out of nowhere after his Swinging Sixties Dave Clark Five musical Catch Us If You Can – dragged the all-American crime film out of the black and white shadows of the 1940s and 1950s, straight into the searing, vivid daylight of 1967 pop-art LA. The result is probably Boorman’s, and Marvin’s, greatest movie – a superb, shifting, Panavision Metrocolor noir.
Read MoreCrime & The City Solution: American Twilight – album review
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If this is twilights last gleaming, then long let it shine on. Crime & The City Solution abide.
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