The BellTowers – ‘Magnetic’ (2021)
For the past decade, the BellTowers have been releasing outstanding records that can perhaps be classified as modern day retro rock. Although the Orlando, Florida based band proudly...
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The Lolas – ‘All Rise’ (2021)
Hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, the Lolas have been making the rounds on the international indie scene for nearly a quarter of a century now. While a series of...
Dean & Britta – ‘Quarantine Tapes’ (2020)
The postman stood at my door with a record box hanging at the end of his hand, which turned out to be a test-pressing for Dean & Britta’s...
Brigg – ‘Brigg’ (1973) | Exciting Reissue
After years of being bootlegged to death, 'Brigg' is finally available as a legitimate reissue. Originally released in the autumn of 1973 on the Susquehanna Sound Productions label,...
Global Village Trucking Company – ‘Dancing In The Street With Smiling Revolutionaries’
An east coast band in a different country nicknamed the British Grateful Dead due to extended jams? A co-founder who was a close cousin in regal line to...
Dodson and Fogg – ‘When the Night Draws Near’ (2021)
Our old friend Dodson and Fogg (aka Chris Wade)’s fourth release this year (including a rarities disc) comprises 16 minutes of funky, rocking, bluesy swaggers full of tasty...
Think I’m Going Weird: Original Artefacts From The British Psychedelic Scene 1966-68
“A slice of surprising history, history some people hope will never be repeated again,” narrates a suitably plum-voiced commentator, a bus painted in vivid colours sitting in the...
Bunny & The Invalid Singers – ‘Flight Of The Certainty Kids’ (2021)
For nearly fifteen years, Edinburgh-based Bearsuit have been releasing confounding, intriguing, frustrating, amusing, and just-plain-fun music. Bunny has been at the heart of several of their 50+ releases,...
Donald Fagen – ‘The Nightfly Live’ (2021)
I’ve never found myself enamored with live albums, so when Donald Fagen released his emancipated 'Nightfly', recorded with a full band before an audience, I rubbed the back...
Steve Gunn – ‘Other You’ (2021)
Steve Gunn turned a corner on 'Other You', and while all of his records float on a hazed breeze, this one is profoundly delicate, like driving down a...