INTERVIEW: Eddie Piller – The Mod Revival box set
Acid Jazz top dog Eddie Piller is well known for embracing Mod from a young age. His record label were branded as the new mods back in the early 1990 and indeed it is this era along with earlier and…
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NEWS: A LILY (aka James Vella) announces details of his fifth album release
A LILY (aka James Vella) has announced details of his fifth album release, Sleep Through the Storm. Out on 16 October 2020 on limited edition cassette and digitally, the new album will be his first for London/Dorset imprint Bytes. “The Storm” in the title, Vella…
REVIEW: The Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup 2020
Released back in 1973 Goats Head Soup might be considered by some as The Rolling Stones waving goodbye to their golden period and settling down into stadium rock comfort, Fast forward to this 2020 release and the album settles into…
VIDEO: Jamie Webster – Track By Track
Currently sitting pretty in the top ten of the album charts Jamie Webster has become one of the shooting stars of the recent music scene what with appearing all over Liverpool FC’s title winning escapades his freshly released new album…
REVIEW: Solomon Burke – The Atlantic Recordings 1962-1968 box set
When there’s talk of heavyweight artists little come so close to achieving this hallowed accolade than the dynamite soul singer Solomon Burke. His Atlantic material is a part of the very best soul back catalogue you can get your hands…
REVIEW: Esther Phillips – Brand New Day box set
One of the many shining lights of the 1960’s soul, jazz and blues scene was the outstanding vocalist Esther Phillips and her recordings on Lenox, Atlantic and Roulette records. Released via Soul Music Records a subsidiary of Cherry Records a…
NEWS: Doves release new tune from forthcoming album – TODAY!
TODAY (2.30pm) Doves will release the beautiful Cathedrals Of The Mind from their upcoming album, The Universal Want. Filling and breaking hearts, the achingly vulnerable voice of singer, Jimi Goodwin meets the valley-deep atmospherics cultivated by band mates, Andy and Jez Williams, sweeping with delicate grace in breathtaking murmurations….
REVIEW: Roots, Rock and Reggae – Compilation
Compilation albums are often a fortress of goodies both heard and unheard to the listening ear in possession of the music. Doctor Bird Records, a division of Cherry Red Records, specializes specifically in Jamaican beats licenced from the legendary Trojan…
REVIEW: Ready Steady Go book and vinyl box set – Andy Neill
Before Top Of The Pops, The Word and The Tube there was a music show that was something all the more cooler; it had a style and myth that still surrounds its fibre until this day. There is also a…
VIDEO PREMIERE: Candy Opera – These Days Are Ours
This is the sound of Candy Opera now! Liverpool’s pop craftsmen release These Days Are Ours, the first single taken from their new album, The Patron Saint Of Heartache, which is due for release in early November… their first new material for nearly three…