Kris Needs
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Beats
Watch The Closing Doors – A History of New York’s Musical Melting Pot Vol. 1 (1945-59)
(2 CD set, Future Noise) Often, the hallmark of a genuinely brilliant concept is that one is immediately thinks, ‘Why…
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Exotica
Kris Needs Presents… Dirty Water 2 – More Birth of Punk Attitude
(2CD set, Year Zero) Happily, the overwhelmingly positive response to Dirty Water – The Birth of Punk Attitude has enabled…
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Culture
Parallel Lives, Blondie (Book Review)
Now THIS is a story, and while many of the revelations are not necessarily of the pleasant variety, it certainly…
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News
Hawkwind, Wilko Johnson – Aylesbury Friars gig
Hawkwind, Wilko Johnson and Kris Needs to play landmark Friars gig, 28 May Aylesbury’s legendary Friars will be club celebrating…
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Hotplugs
GIL SCOTT-HERON (1 April 1949 – 27 May 2011)
I stopped taking hip-hop seriously round about the time it started turning into high pantomime and dollar-grabbing clichés in the…
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