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July 2, 2018
Here’s the second half of the first The Beat Goes On, a new show presented by the editor of this very website. The Beat Goes On was...
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June 29, 2018
At last! After a six-month sabbatical, the slacker who edits this website has finally roused himself and relaunched And And! And: the...
December 19, 2017
Can it really be 12 months since 10 Christmas songs that won’t make you think King Herod had the right idea after all? It surely can....
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November 22, 2017
Dan Nelson’s epic 243-page book All Known Metal Bands is full of death, destruction, pain and unspeakable acts of depravity. You...
November 13, 2017
I used to be in a band. Impressed? Don’t be. Many of my friends have also been in bands, as have lots of people I follow on Twitter and...
October 30, 2017
This is the second and final part of my tribute to the great singer-songwriter Laura Nyro, who had she lived would have been 70 years old...
October 26, 2017
Laura Nyro (1947-97) was a unique talent who blazed a trail for all the female singer-songwriters who came after her. And plenty of male...
October 11, 2017
‘I think of The The as being a blank wall I can paint in any musical style I want to’ – Matt Johnson As a lazy, cidered teen...
June 18, 2017
Although devoting the whole of Sunday afternoon to Indian classical music might seem a bold move, in fact there could have been nothing...
June 17, 2017
Barely time for a quick wash-and-brush-up at the huge Monterey camp site, and off we go again. There was a lot of excitement on Saturday...