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UK Artist of the Week: AMANZI
Brighton-based singer-songwriter AMANZI is bringing soul, gospel, and raw, honest storytelling to the forefront, with her latest single “I Gave You Grace,” out now. Drawing on her South African roots and influences spanning soul, jazz, blues, and gospel, AMANZI creates music…
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Graded on a Curve: Frogs, My Daughter the Broad
My Daughter the Broad is the second album from indie rock’s behemoths of bad taste, the Frogs. Out of print for decades, the record has been expanded into a double set, including eight bonus tracks. Alternately funny and profoundly disturbing, this might be this demented duo’s…
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In rotation: 10/13/26
Ontario, CA | This music fan turned an old trailer into the World’s Smallest Record Shop: Over a decade ago, Al Bjornaa was wondering what to do with a 10-foot refrigerated meat trailer that an uncle left at his property in Batchawana Bay, Ont., a 45-minute drive north of Sault…
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TVD Radar: The Be Good Tanyas, Blue Horse 25th anniversary edition in stores 11/20
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Twenty-five years after The Be Good Tanyas introduced their singular take on folk music to the world, the celebrated Vancouver group announces a special 25th anniversary edition of their debut album, Blue Horse, arriving November 20th, 2026 via Birthday Cake…
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TVD Radar: The National, Boxer MoFi Edition available now
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MoFi), the leader in high-fidelity audio reissues, is proud to present The National’s 2007 breakthrough album, Boxer, in audiophile sound. Sourced from the original masters (16-bit / 44.1kHz digital master to analog console to…
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Graded on a Curve: The Temptations, Psychedelic Shack
Remembering Melvin Franklin, born on this day in 1942. —Ed. On March 21, 2025, Elemental Music concluded the impressive string of reissues that constitutes the label’s Motown Sound Collection with a 180-gram edition of The Temptations’ Psychedelic Shack, the groundbreaking…
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TVD Radar: Have Moicy! 50th anniversary reissue in stores 12/4
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Craft Recordings celebrates the 50th anniversary of Have Moicy!, the genre-shaping “freak folk” collaboration from Michael Hurley, the Unholy Modal Rounders (led by Peter Stampfel), and Jeffrey Frederick & the Clamtones. Originally released in 1976, the…
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Graded on a Curve: Jay Ferguson, “Thunder Island”
Vocalist Jay Ferguson was the epitome of the journeyman musician, bouncing from never-made-the-big-time bands Spirit (“I Got a Line on You”) and Jo Jo Gunne (“Run Run Run”) before embarking on a solo career. Which was auspiciously inauspicious until the Golden Year 1978, when…
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In rotation: 10/12/26
UK | UK recorded music market growth slows in Q3—but vinyl’s still unstoppable: Despite some highly successful releases, Q3 was largely a quarter to forget for the UK recorded music industry. Whatever the effects of a sweltering summer, recorded music does not seem to have been…
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The Best of The Idelic Hour with Jon Sidel
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Daddy / Hold me / It seems so very dark tonight / And day Daddy / I can’t sleep / I need you to come and sing to me / That the stars up in the sky / Will shine down gently on the two of us tonight / And soon […]
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TVD Radar: Bauhaus, “Drink The New Wine” (Colored Etched 12″ Vinyl Single) in stores 10/30
VIA PRESS RELEASE | “Drink The New Wine,” the last song ever recorded by Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins, and David J—aka goth legends Bauhaus—will be issued on white, silver, and red vinyl, just in time for Halloween. Formed at the tail end of the 1970s, before there…
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Graded on a Curve: John Lennon, John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band–The Ultimate Collection
Remembering John Lennon, born on this day in 1940. —Ed. The Plastic Ono Band album, released in 1970 by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, is monumental in the annals of rock history. It was the fourth album John and Yoko released, but it is often credited as Lennon’s solo debut. There…
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TVD Radar: Joe Strummer, Joe Strummer 003: The 101’ers Years 3CD box set, 2LP in stores 11/20
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Dark Horse Records is proud to announce Joe Strummer 003: The 101’ers Years, the definitive collection of studio and live recordings from Joe Strummer’s pre-Clash band, The 101’ers. Featuring the first known recordings of Joe Strummer, the collection captures…
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Graded on a Curve: High Rise, II
This band of Japanese noise punkers began life as the Psychedelic Speed Freaks, which summed them up so well their label recommended they change their name because it was “too direct.” So they opted for High Rise in tribute to the J.G. Ballard novel of the same name. Other than…
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In rotation: 10/9/26
North Lancashire, UK | Closure announced of Lancaster city centre record store: Owners of a record shop in Lancaster city centre have announced its closure. Forty Five Records, based in the Kings Arcade on King Street, first opened in 2023 before moving into a bigger unit in the…