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UNDER THE RADAR

Artists, bands, and labels meriting more attention

4 min |

April 2023

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A Fitting Farewell

When two songwriting greats combined.

3 min |

April 2023

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Daisy Cutter

Double-LP reissue becomes an unintended tribute to a hip-hop great.

5 min |

April 2023

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33 1/2 minutes with...Paul Jones

Since his rise to mid-60s stardom with Manfred Mann, Paul Jones has been one of Britain's premier blues/R&B singers.

4 min |

April 2023

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JAVID QUANTICK LIKES

To write a column for Record Collector. Yay Best Known Album Syndrome

3 min |

April 2023

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MUSIC TO VISIT

Bob Stanley carries pop's baggage everywhere Shhh... library music

4 min |

April 2023

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Not Forgotten

He demanded 48 vocal takes from Cilla, before choosing the second

10+ min |

April 2023

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Diggin' For GOLD

Our regular look at the more arcane corners of record collecting. Includes Vintage Venue

10+ min |

April 2023

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PAN PEOPLE

Delphina James, whose homage to Kraftwerk is a new entry in the RRPG, tells lan Shirley about arranging electronic music for steel bands and her new project, playing the music of modern composer Ludovico Einaudi

10+ min |

April 2023

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The Collector

Sonic Youth RC reader Al Harwood

6 min |

April 2023

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NUMB ANGEL

Lewis Taylor was a contender, hailed by the critics and name-dropped by everyone from Paul Weller to Elton John. Following attempts to sell him as a soul boy when he was more a UK Tame Impala - less Acid Jazz than acid and jazz he made a few dazzling records, then disappeared. Rumours circulated that he'd absented himself from social media and the music industry in general and was living as a recluse. But, after nearly two decades away, he's released a new album, NUMB, which shows him in as rude vocal and compositional health as ever, and finally ready to explain where he's been. It's madness: Matt Phillips

10+ min |

April 2023

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"YOU GET UNDER MY SKIN...”

The Only Ones were the new wave-era band with one foot in the pre-punk, rock classicist past. They recorded three albums of erratic flaming beauty, but it was a single of theirs, three minutes of ragged insinuating perfection, that really helped them make a mark. Here, adapted from Simon Wright's new book on the band's debut LP, is the story of Another Girl, Another Planet.

10+ min |

April 2023

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LET'S SHOP

There's nothing more that Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and The Arcs likes more than a good few hours spent digging through the crates at his favourite UK record store. Which is why we join him by the racks at London's Stranger Than Paradise. Chris Catchpole witnesses the vinyl love.

9 min |

April 2023

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CHAIRMAN OF THE KEYBOARD

With a new illustrated account of his life, Keith Emerson, out now, the partner of ELP's keyboard virtuoso, Mari Kawaguchi, and his son, Aaron Emerson, tell us his story via 12 key images from the book, all the way from 1966 right up to his death in 2016.

5 min |

April 2023

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Full Moon

As much of their classic as you buy, beg, borrow or steal.

2 min |

April 2023

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33½ minutes with...Francis Rossi

"Quo's last record got 3.5m streams... which is apparently fuck-all"

5 min |

March 2023

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Alan Parsons – "It Was Pure Convenience"

So Alan Parsons tells Jo Kendall, looking back on the opportunity that took him from EMI lab lackey to Abbey Road engineering icon. But his production work with The Beatles, Hollies, Pink Floyd, Pilot, Al Stewart, Ambrosia and more wasn't the end of the story. When Parsons met musician and producer Eric Woolfson, his creativity translated into the enormously successful Alan Parsons Project, and a long-lasting solo career to sit alongside his Art & Science Of Sound Recording educational programme and occasional forays as not just a technical wizard, but a real life one, too. Oh, oh, oh, it's magic, you know...

10+ min |