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With over 30 million albums sold across a storied career, JAMES are amongst the most commercially and artistically successful bands of their era. They return to Australia and New Zealand for the first time since 2018 performing all the songs their iconic album ‘Laid’ plus a career-spanning set featuring greatest hits and deep cuts. The highly influential...

Yesterday I told a friend that I was reviewing the new Delaney Davidson album and they disappointed me by saying Who?  So here, before giving Baby Heavyweight a spin, is a précis.  There are just too many genres to choose one with which to box this man in. Country-noir and Gothic Americana have been starter […]

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Nicole Atkins is proud to announce her long-awaited new album, Drama, arriving via Sun Records / Wicked Game Records on Friday, September 18. Here is the blurb with more: The acclaimed singer-songwriter’s seventh studio album and first all-new full-length release in over six years, Drama is heralded by today’s premiere of the first single, “Whe...

Riding high on their 1996 alternative radio breakthrough Electriclarryland and its chart-topper  Pepper Austin’s premier Dadaist punks the Butthole Surfers were primed for a massive follow-up. Instead, their lovingly crafted 1998 LP, After The Astronaut, eerily disappeared into the vapor, a casualty of label politics and the band disintegrating. The album became a...

Clive Davis, one of the most influential music executives ever, has died at age 94. Davis is best known as the head of Columbia Records in the late 60s and early 70s who signed rock heaveyweights such as Janis Joplin, Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel…even Mott The Hoople to the label. After being dismissed from […]

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