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The Bangles chart-conquering Different Light and their slighty less impressive debut album get the reissue treatment.

A thematic collection of stripped down tracks from Suzanne Vega’s songbook, beginning with the love song.

More depressing pop dressed up espionage style on the fifth album from this diminutive guitar goddess. “Junior”, indeed.

If only England had their version of the Wild West, otherwise Tom McRae might’ve found himself in much stronger grounding.

Load the chamber and light a candle for Jeffrey Lee Pierce, it’s rockabilly blues-a-go-go with The Gun Club.

Idlewild return with their fan-funded sixth album, offering much talk of Warnings (and Promises). But do they deliver?

Evan Dando and a cast of several come together to make the ultimate Lemonheads record so far. With an album featuring songs by Wire and Christina Aguilera, it’s both “Strange” and “Beautiful”.

Diminutive guitar goddess Kaki King gets caught up with the wrong crowd on Mexican Teenagers.

For a band who owe much of their success to the art of the cover version, and yeah, let’s not beat around the bush here, It’s a Shame About Ray wasn’t exactly setting the charts alight before their Lemon-lovin’ Graduate-coverin’ selves took the mild-hearted Simon and Garfunkel hit “Mrs. Robinson”, turning it into solid gold [...]

Art Brut return with the first single taken from their forthcoming Frank Black produced album “Art Brut Vs. Satan” released on 20th April. “Unanimous” is a skittery cyclone of buzzing guitars and post-inebriation guilt as laid out by the garrulous Eddie Argos and company. Drunks that we are, we unanimously approve. Bartender, another round.