About Matt Mead
Freelance writer who likes anything with heart and soul
Bob Dylan – The 1974 Live Recordings, New 431-Track Collection Of The Artist’s Arena Performances With The Band, To Be Released Across 27 Discs On Columbia Records / Legacy Recordings, September 20 Deluxe Box Set Features 417 Previously Unreleased Performances, Newly-Mixed…
TEN YEARS AFTER FIRST STANDALONE RELEASE OF WOODSTOCK 1969 AVAILABLE AS 2LP, 180G BACK VINYL, IN A GATEFOLD SLEEVE AND A 1-DISC DIGISLEEVE CD WITH AN EIGHT-PAGE BOOKLET FEATURING NEW SLEEVENOTES BY CHRIS WELCH IT IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN…
Eight years since the breath taking Somewhere Anywhere EP, The Mad Walls return to set a light to the psych rock bonfire with this gorgeous, floatily heavy, effortlessly groovy and sublimely sinuous debut LP. Driven by bone shaking acoustic guitar,…
From the first pages of Normski; Man With The Golden Shutter you can tell the once sanguine presenter from mid-90’s dance TV shows isn’t messing about when it comes to his sensational photography work. 272 pages of prime hip hop…
Willy Wonka missed a trick. His river of chocolate was not the perfect recipe for making a luxurious smooth brown paste. Throw in a couple days of hard rain to fresh green acres of fields in the middle of Leicestershire,…
Following the success of The Northern Soul Scene collection Decca Presents: The R&B Scene Out 9 August 2024 Buy link: decca.lnk.to/TheRBScene The R&B Scene brings together 24 remarkable tracks, virtually all of them much sought after on original Decca/Deram 7” single. This…
PAUL WELLER “FLY ON THE WALL” – B-SIDE AND RARITIES Triple vinyl reissue and available digitally for the first time AUGUST 9th 2024 on UNIVERSAL MUSIC Paul Weller’s 2003 compilation “Fly On The Wall” – a collection of b-sides, remixes…
Eddie Piller presents…. The Mod Top 100 A 4CD collection spanning the cream of the ‘60s Mod scene, inspired by the hugely influential list first published by ‘Ace Face’ Randy Cozens, with new sleevenotes, and previously unseen photos from Cozens’…
When contemplating composing a book on a band that have a particular place in the heart of their followers you have to have certain components, these often include reviving certain feelings/memories from bygone years/events that are often lost in the…
Hanging around lamp posts late at night has often been an occupation met with risk, ambiguity and certain sense of not knowing what’s going to happen next. Bring synth pop legends Pet Shop Boys into this aquation and you’ll probably…