Midnight – Sakada (2005)

When ‘Sakada’ came out in 2005, it was quite a surprise, as ex–Crimson Glory frontman Midnight (born John Patrick McDonald) had been out of the music business for almost a decade and a half …

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The little imperfections of homemade tapes are gone: skips, glitches, and accidental bits of other recordings no longer have the chance to become part of the songs. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but try telling that to our brains …

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Crowhead – Frozen (2002)

Some records, revisited in hindsight years after their release, may sound like unfinished business. Not half-baked, but in the sense of possibility: albums that seem to point toward something larger …

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There are so many musicians, legendary and not, that I deeply admire and who are gone. I don’t remember the birthdate of most of them, if I ever knew it. For some reason, this doesn’t happen with John Coltrane …

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It’s always a pleasure to flip through pages filled with lovely pictures of nature and animals. You will probably agree that it’s about the last place where I’d expect to stumble across one of my musical idols: funk legend Nile Rodgers …

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That time I saw Canadian singer Gino Vannelli playing at a shopping mall and the most complicated autograph I ever got on a record cover …

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Nu Creative Methods – Superstitions (1984)

Let’s take the long way round and start with Nurse With Wound, a key name from the first wave of British industrial, well known to anyone with a taste for abrasive, unconventional sounds. That’s our starting point for a very specific reason …

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As previously mentioned, most of my teenage years were spent dealing with stamps and mail: writing letters, tape trading, printing fanzines… Sure, I had my fair share of football (soccer) and basketball games with my friends, but more often than

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The Moon – The Moon (1998)

The press release boldly billed them as ‘The Who Meets The Beatles’. Behind the claim was The Moon, a band of Dutch rockers who’d traded leather and swagger for a more classic touch. Indeed, they were not rookies …

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This concert captured a crucial moment in Anathema’s career. After morphing from their gothic/doom metal beginnings to a mellower sound blending a wide range of influences, they had been without a record deal for some time and were about to relaunch …

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