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Gavin Bryars
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Manic Street Preachers' This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours Turns 20
About five years ago, I travelled from Liverpool to Cardiff Castle to see the Manic Stree...
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Pretty On The Outside: Hole’s Celebrity Skin 20 Years On
When Lynn Hirschberg profiled grunge’s king and queen for Vanity Fair in 1992, she kept circlin...
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20 Years On: The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill Revisited
Twenty years on, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill is no longer merely a great record. From the l...
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Don't You Know They're Loco? Cypress Hill's Black Sunday Revisited
Sometimes the worst people in the world happen to be right about something. I don’t mean Cypre...
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A Man Escaped: The Style Council’s Confessions Of A Pop Group 30 Years On
On 20 June 1988, The Style Council issued Confessions Of A Pop Group to mainly scathing reviews...
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Thin Lizzy: Live And Dangerous 40 Years On
Earlier this year, I was asked to DJ before the third of the Hold Steady’s three London shows. ...
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White Heat Can’t Melt Black Steel: Public Enemy's Nation Of Millions Revisited
Writing about the past is a free hit. You don’t have to risk anything. You know how it turns ou...
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40 Years On: Bruce Springsteen's Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Bruce Springsteen was never a punk. He was too good for punk, not in the sense that he was too ...
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25 Years On: Blade's The Lion Goes From Strength To Strength Revisited
A quarter of a century isn't that long in the grand scheme of things, but in the life of a genr...
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Lock The Studio, Turn Out The Lights: Basic Channel 25 Years On
This year marks a quarter-century since Basic Channel inaugurated their label with Cyrus' monum...
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