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Album Reviews

American Music Club The Golden Age
Amy Winehouse Back to Black
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare
Baby Dee Safe Inside the Day
Bill Coleman I’ll Tear My Own Walls Down
Bjork Volta
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy The Letting Go 
Bruce Springsteen Magic
Camille O’Sullivan La Fille Du Cirque 
CocoRosie The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn 
Damien Jurado And Now That I'm In Your Shadow 
Elliott Smith New Moon
Elvis Costello and The Attractions All This Useless Beauty
The Flaws Achieving Vagueness
Grinderman Grinderman
Ham Sandwich  Carry the Meek
The Handsome Family The Last Days Of Wonder
The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
Iggy and the Stooges The Weirdness
Interpol Our Love To Admire
John Cale Circus Live
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures,
Closer, Still
Led Zeppelin Mothership: The Very Best of Led Zeppelin
Low Drums and Guns
Lucinda Williams West
The Magnetic Fields Distortion
M.I.A Kala
Mus La Vida
Neil Young Chrome Dreams II
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Nirvana From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah
Patti Smith Gone Again
Patti Smith Twelve
P J Harvey White Chalk
R.E.M. New Adventures In Hi Fi
R.E.M. Accelerate
Richard Hawley Lady’s Bridge
Richard Swift Dressed Up For The Let Down
Richmond Fontaine Thirteen Cities
Richmond Fontaine $87 and a guilty conscience that gets worse the longer I go
Robert Forster The Evangelist
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raising Sand
Robert Wyatt Comicopera
Ryan Adams Easy Tiger
Scarlett Johansson Anywhere I Lay My Head
The Shins Wincing The Night Away
Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim (CD) and Heima (DVD)
Stagger Lee Bad Shoes
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Real Emotional Trash
Steve Earle Washington Square Serenade
Thurston Moore Trees Outside The Academy
The Triffids In the Pines and
Calenture
U2 Pop
Various Artists I’m Not There (Soundtrack)
The White Stripes Icky Thump
Wilco Sky Blue Sky
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Live Reviews

Elvis Costello At The National Stadium
July 1996

Iggy Pop at The Mean Fiddler
September 1996

Interviews

A Certain Ratio

Alabama 3

John Cale

The Hold Steady

Joan As Police Woman

Richard Swift

Julien Temple on his biopic, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

Features

Bringing It All Back Here – Preview of Bob Dylan, The Flaming Lips and The Violent Femmes at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, June 2006

Came So Far For Beauty - Preview of Leonard Cohen Tribute Concert at The Point Depot, Dublin, October 2006

Tradition, Continuity and Innovation in Popular American Protest Song


 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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