SLADE’s 1975 Concert Gets Out Of Box

January 22, 2024

Given their immense popularity, it’s rather surprising that SLADE‘s on-stage discography is quite scarce, which was why the “All The World Is A Stage” box set, released in 2022, was more than welcome – only the ensemble’s die-hard aficionados had mixed feelings about having to purchase a few discs they already owned. Those who didn’t buy it then, though, will have the opportunity to get the long-coveted and much bootlegged recording of the quartet’s performance from London’s “New Victoria Theatre” – the second of their two gigs there played in 1975 when the band promoted the “In Flame” soundtrack.

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Andy Partridge And Chris Braide Pair Up For An EP

January 21, 2024

Over the last decade the name of international pop-rock hitmaker Chris Braide has become firmly associated with that of ASIA’s Geoff Downes as the two concocted, as DBA, a string of prog-tinged confections which, apparently captured the attention of Andy Partridge, the principal songwriter of XTC’s whose "The Big Express" rolled towards a similar cityscape. Which is why Andy – a prominent presence on the duo’s "Skyscraper Souls" – approached Chris with a proposition of creating something together. And the two masters did it.

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Cult Psych Heroes PUSSY Deliver Sequel Album Five Decades After

January 19, 2024

It’s easy to giggle at the name of British band PUSSY – yet it’s equally easy to get pulled into their riveting psychedelia. The Hertfordshire quartet sounded rather cinematic and a tad heavy on their late-’60s debut which presented proto-prog to those willing to listen, and the number of the willing has been steadily growing in the last decades, especially when the LP pressings of the album started selling for hundreds of dollars and the foursome’s songs started appearing on rarities’ collections, including the “Mojo” magazine’s covermount CD. Still, the ensemble disappeared without a trace within the first year of their existence – to return now with a new platter in tow.

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Famed Drummer Jimmy Keegan Issues Solo Debut

January 18, 2024

At first glance such ensembles as SANTANA and SPOCK’S BEARD have nothing in common, except for accessing various aspects of rock idiom and apart from their names starting with the same letter – however, there’s another link between the two: the skin-hitter and vocalist Jimmy Keegan whose CV includes records by many more seemingly incongruous, in stylistic terms, artists. Only recently, the veteran not only appeared on Chuck Wright’s heavy platter "Sheltering Sky" and Robert Berry‘s live album, all the while serving as a fulltime member of PATTERN-SEEKING ANIMALS. And now he’s finally decided it was time to finally release a solo offering.

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SOFT CELL Bring Wet Dreams From The Stage

January 17, 2024

Last year saw a glorious reissue of SOFT CELL‘s debut album, “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” from 1981, expanded to a box set to reflect the record’s ever-growing stature – an extensive collection which included live recordings, mostly from the duo’s two-night stand at London’s “Eventim Apollo” in November 2021. Yet, it turns out, that wasn’t the entire concert document of Marc Almond and Dave Ball celebrating the platter’s 40th anniversary, as February 16th will see the release of their full performance.

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