Ed Jupp

Gina Birch, the legendary artist, filmmaker, and a founding member of post-punk group The Raincoats, has released a cover of Yoko Ono’s 'Listen, the Snow is

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Although Villanelle frontman Gene Gallagher has been writing songs “for as long has he can remember,” the band only came together at the start of the year,

It might comes a bit of a surprise to discover that this is Kim Deal ‘s first solo album. After all, the indie icon first came to prominence in the second half of the 1980s as the bass player in the Pixies, and whilst still a member of that seminal band became the frontwoman of indie supergroup The Breeders, as well as later forming The Amps. All very impressive – but this latest chapter shows that she still has a number of surprises to give us.

Home Reviews Dean & Britta/ Sonic Boom – A Peace Of Us (Carpark Records)

Sometimes you have to be in the right frame of mind to get an album. To my eternal shame, the first time I played this album, I wasn’t sure about it. Fast forward to a couple of listens later, and now I really can’t understand why I was initially resistant to its charms. But here I am, on a cold, wet and wintry night – admittedly no shortage of these here in Scotland – and I am now shamelessly begging you to check this out.

I’ve long been fascinated by cover versions, perhaps even before I know what they were. One of the first albums I ever owned was Siouxsie and the Banshees ‘Through The Looking Glass, with its covers of The Doors, Bob Dylan and Iggy Pop. (While I can’t say that from that moment on I abandoned the pop music of the day and went down a darker path, it would happen soon enough). Austrian

Dominic Waxing Lyrical, a band centred on songwriter, performance artist and musician Dominic Harris

Allow me to be personal for a moment. Late 1991, and an unusual song comes on Radio 1, almost the antithesis of everything that’s played at the time. (This was still the era of the station being lampooned, not entirely unreasonably, by the ‘Smashey and Nicey’ characters of Harry Enfield and

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