Tag: 50s pop
Darts – The Albums 1977-81 – Album Review
Darts - The Albums 1977-81 7T's 4CD/DL Released 21st June 2019 Boxset containing everything Darts recorded for Magnet Records in the band's halcyon days including number 2 hits...
Marty Wilde: A Lifetime In Music – album review
Marty Wilde - A Lifetime In Music Cherry Red 4CD | DL Released 7th June 2019 Exhaustive boxset which runs the whole gamut of original rocker Marty Wilde's...
Bobby Wood – If I’m A Fool For Loving You –...
Bobby Wood - If I'm A Fool For Loving You RPM 2CD/DL Released 19th April 2019 The complete 1960s recordings by singer and pianist Bobby Wood, who recorded...
Maureen Evans: Like I Do: The Sixties Recordings – Album Review
Maureen Evans - Like I Do: The Sixties Recordings RPM CD/DL Released 25th November 2016 First retrospective CD compilation of the 1960s recordings by Welsh singer Maureen...
Various Artists: Soho Expresso – Album Review
Various Artists - Soho Expresso (Croydon Municipal) CD/DL Released 28th October 2016 Follow up to the much acclaimed "Soho Continental", this time focussing on the smoky atmosphere...
LIVE
40 years ago R.E.M. played their first ever gig : our man was there and here is his review
In the early hours of the evening, several hundred people gathered around a collapsing episcopal church, only a short walk away from the university's main entrance.
INTERVIEWS
Perception Is The New Reality – Catching Up With IST IST Ahead of The Release of Their Debut Album
Manchester's most haunting and idiosyncratic band are gearing up to release their debut album Architecture. Louder Than War's Dave Beech caught up with them ahead of its release.
NEWS
LISTEN! Ed Blaney new single ‘Othello’ : it’s brilliant and bonkers
I've played it ten times in a row and it doesnt lose an ounce of its mystery and its directness or its powerful poetry or its power from its pounding drums and massive northern psych stained chorus
MEDIA
Kwaidan – film review
Kwaidan (1964)
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Cast: Rentarō Mikuni, Keiko Kishi, Kazuo Nakamura
Run time: 183 mins
Format: Blu-ray
Language: Japanese (with optional...
FESTIVALS
Dark Music Days (Myrkir Músíkdagar), Iceland – festival review
Dark Music Days (Myrkir Músíkdagar)
Reykjavik, Iceland
26 January to 4 February 2020 Reykjavík's Dark Music Days midwinter festival has...
