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  Sandy Denny: The Lost Song!

  Goo Goo Dolls: The Rest Of Us!

  Opeth: Albert Hall: Live DVD

  101 Ways To Market Your Music!

  Blue Horizon: The Black Angels

  Tunited: Make Love Share Music

  Mercury Prize 2010 Nominees

  Iron Maiden: The Final Frontier

  Anais Mitchell HADESTOWN

  New Album Reviews

  The Union: Modern Classic Rock!

  Pantera: Cowboys 2010

  The Loving Cup: 2010: Their Year?

  Black Soul Strangers: Irish Gold

  Peace One Day: Sept 2010

  Voyager: Australia Rocks

  OZZFEST: UK: September 18th

  Attack Attack: Debut UK Tour!

  Stuart Cable: Memorial Single

  Tom Jones: Praise and Blame

  Sound Of Guns Debut LP: Fire!

  Katherine Jenkins: Llangollen Gala

  Gimme Some Truth: October

  Rosaline: The Vitality Theory

  Coheed And Cambria Interview

  Rainer: Story Teller Supreme

  Editor’s Blog: 2010

  Jimi Hendrix Life, Times & Fire

  Frames Albums Re-Released +

  The Acorn: No Ghost (Bella Union)

  Lone Wolf: The Devil And I

  Roger Waters The Wall Tour 2010

  We7: Breaking The Mould

  Sonisphere 2009 Revisited


This One’s For You DC of The Sunday Times



Back in 1998 The Sunday Times ‘Culture’ section album reviews served as an excellent guide to the new, musical quality and adventure. In more recent years it has become less useful because of its tendency to review and admire the over-hyped and over-valued. There are also occasions when the paper’s reviewers have been scathing in their criticism – often in my opinion quite wrongly. At this time of year there’s little of any consequence to review as the industry goes into short-term, deep hibernation. It also seems to be the period in which Times reviewers (and one in particular) seek victims and unsheathe razor-sharp blades to murder music most brutally – regardless of quality. Now one has to acknowledge that reviewing is dominated by the subjective - beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder – and is the reason why we listen to albums several times over a period of weeks before we pass our humble judgement. With very few exceptions, we only feature albums which achieve a minimum standard and can be recommended with some confidence.

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