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Lets Stomp: Merseybeat & Beyond 1962-1969

3 CD box set spotlighting the pioneering movement that brought the world The Beatles but has been overshadowed by their success. • Hits include The Searchers’ ‘Sweets For My Sweet’ (UK #1) and ‘When You Walk In The Room’ (UK #3), Billy J. Kramer With The Dakotas’ ‘Bad To Me’ (UK #1), The Swinging Blue […]

Gathered From Coincidence: The British Folk-pop Sound Of 1965-66

3 CD Prior to the early Sixties, folk and pop musicians inhabited largely different worlds. There were folk records that had become crossover pop hits, but in essence there was little or no common ground in terms of instrumentation or ideologies. But in the wake of the British beat/R&B boom (or, if you were in […]

Salt Of The Earth

Even if you’ve never heard this 1974 album, you’ve heard it. What do we mean? Well, the drum break from the song “Ashley’s Roachclip” is probably the single most sampled track in all of hip hop. Everybody, and we mean EVERYBODY, has used it—Run- D.M.C., Eric B. & Rakim, and LL Cool J to name […]

Many Faces Of

2 LP The Ramones were, undoubtedly, one of the most influential bands in rock history. Taking the most basic and primitive elements from the rock of the 50’s and 60’s with a remarkable dose of street attitude, the Ramones have created, almost by chance, the fundamental stone of the sound which later resulted in punk […]

Feorm Falorx

A1. Perspex A2. Modenet A3. Wondergan A4. C.A. A5. Cwtchr B1. Nightcrawler feat. Mason Bee B2. Bowl B3. Return to Return B4. Tomason B5. Wide I’s On the cusp of their 30th year with British indie Warp Records, Plaid return with a joyous new studio album, Feorm Falorx. From their playful early releases in the […]

True Meanings

To put it simply, the fourteenth Paul Weller solo album, the twenty sixth studio album of his entire career, is a record unlike any he has ever made before. It is not “a departure”, in the sense that soul baring, melancholic songs have always been an important part of what he does: from ‘English Rose’, […]

Blood Money 4 Classic Westerns Volume 2

In the mid-1960s, the runaway success of Sergio Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy gave rise to an explosion of similar productions. Filmmakers by the dozen sought to capitalize on this new, uniquely Italian take on the western, which was characterized by their deeply cynical outlook, morally compromised antiheroes and unflinching depictions of savage violence. This specially curated […]

Silent Rage

Chuck Norris, six-time World Karate Champion, stars in his first suspense film as the tough, street-fighting sheriff of a small Texas town terrorised by a psychotic killer. Sheriff Stevens (Norris) is faced with the dilemma of stopping the invincible murderer, made virtually indestructible through genetic engineering. A young group of researchers are responsible for developing […]