Tag: musicblog
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Top 10 Albums of 2022
As another year draws to a close and I reflect on the albums that I’ve connected with most in 2022, I’ve also been thinking about a question that keeps cropping up more and more each year: is the ‘album’ an outdated concept? This question deserves a dedicated article, but at this moment in time I…
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The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers – 50 Years!
It feels like only yesterday I was working on the bar at the Rolling Stones’ Hyde Park gig (not the 1969 one!) to celebrate their 50th anniversary of being a band….now, eight years later, we are celebrating 50 years since the release of their ninth album Sticky Fingers! Sticky Fingers was released in 1971 during…
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Notes From The Archive: Recordings 2011-2016, Maggie Rogers (Album Review)
Singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers released her first official studio album, Heard It In A Past Life, only last year, but the folk pop artist has actually been working hard for a while and releasing fantastic music for almost a decade now. Her latest release, Notes From The Archive, is a collection of old recordings and is…
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We Are Not Your Kind, Slipknot (Album Review)
Twenty years after the release of their debut self-titled album, Iowan metal giants Slipknot have stuck (nine) middle fingers up to the haters and proven that decades of relentless tours, lineup changes, deaths and a decline in the popularity of rock and metal music has far from defeated them. Their sixth studio album ‘We Are…
A Synonym For Sound 