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how not to write about extreme metal, probably
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— 12 Oct 2019 mark sinker 8 comments

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3 and 9 could show you any fantasy
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— 8 Sep 2019 mark sinker 4 comments

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they laugh a lot (behind the clean door)
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— 28 Aug 2019 mark sinker 1 comment

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when the gang chooses you: or how the
puffin club turned me into a punk rocker
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— 7 Dec 2018 mark sinker 4 comments

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the other kind of industrial
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— 26 Oct 2018 mark sinker Comment

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“ITES, REEL”
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— 19 Sep 2018 mark sinker 3 comments

Being a melancholy appreciation on his passing of this nation’s pioneering reggae writer: the great PENNY REEL
“Sing great song, down inna Babylon, show them your culture, down inna Babylon”
— ‘M.P.L.A.’, Tapper Zukie
It was October 1978[…]

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how not to write about jazz, probably
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— 30 Aug 2018 mark sinker 2 comments

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what even is a review?
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— 7 Jul 2018 mark sinker 16 comments

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all the world on one short shelf — remembering roy carr
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— 5 Jul 2018 mark sinker 5 comments

Putting together a collective history for a project like this, of something you were at one time near the heart of, inevitably ends up being a series of missed opportunities. Roy Carr, late of NME, died at the weekend, aged only 73 — and I’m sad […]

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from iceberg to titanic, and from titanic to iceberg, and from iceberg to titanic again…
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— 27 Jun 2018 mark sinker 21 comments

… but already it was impossible to say which was which (or sometimes you get what you pray for — and it isn’t really quite what you wanted: the MICK FARREN story)
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