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The Pink Toothbrush is 30

This month The Pink Toothbrush, the UK's longest running alternative club, celebrates its 30th anniversary and they've got some celebrity DJs (and some others) to help the party along - Terry Hall from the Specials (or as he's known amongst my friends, Terry "Fucking" Hall), the bassist from the Smiths (who always introduces himself on email as "Mike Joyce, from the Smiths", wonder if Morrissey does that?) and some others.  Alongside the resident DJs, who over the years have had to put up with no end of abuse from drunken revellers demanding something other than the Killers (mostly from me,...

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Ultramarine - Live at South

On 3rd November, 2014, Rough Trade will reissue Ultramarine's pioneering 1991 album Every Man And Woman Is A Star.  To coincide we have them playing live on Saturday 15th November at 1.30pm at South (their first ever gig in Essex no less!) “Perhaps the first and best stab at that seeming contradiction-in-terms, pastoral techno... all sun-ripened, meandering lassitude and undulant dub-sway tempos... like acid-house suffused with the folky-jazzy ambience of the Canterbury scene.” - Simon Reynolds (Energy Flash) Ultramarine have toured with Orbital, Bjork, and many others, released acclaimed albums on Rough Trade and Blanco Y Negro and collaborated with Robert...

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New releases - 22nd September

Some highly anticipated albums out this week - the return of Aphex Twin after 13 years, the new one from Leonard Cohen (on his 80th birthday), Swedish psych rockers Goat, buttoned up indie nerds Alt-J, the brilliant Perfume Genius, Essex's very own (well half of, anyway) Erasure return, former Stereolab singer Laetitia Sadier has a new one, and loads more.  There's also reissues of the highly sought after Zambian psych rock LPs by Witch, Cybotron's techno classic Clear, and The Milkshakes off-shoot The Delmonas. Plus there's pre-orders for Caribou, The Vaselines, Oasis and Iceage This week's new releases Aphex TwinSyro...

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New releases, pre-orders and recommendations

  Lots of new records out this week, including the new one from US indie darlings Spoon. Southend's own David Woodcock releases his debut on Blow Up. The soundtrack to Gia Coppola's new film from Devonté Hynes aka Blood Orange. LA rapper Jonwayne's Cassette comes to vinyl for the first time on Stones Throw. Naomi Punk release their first album for indie behemoths Captured Tracks.  There's a new Bollywood themed 'soundtrack' from the Bombay Royale. Bear In Heaven return with more anthemic synth rock and A Sunny Day In Glasgow are back with their fourth LP of dream pop and...

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This week's releases, pre-orders, recommendations

This week sees the long awaited new album from Sub Pop's Shabazz Palaces, the return of former Rilo Kiley singer Jenny Lewis, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers's 16th LP, the first album release of Beck's Song Reader project, the second album by Land Observations.  Along with debut's by Blues Pills, The Struts, Claude Speeed and The John Steel Singers.  And reissues of Van Dyke Parks' Super Chief and the long talked about Furia by The Fates.There's also pre-orders for new albums by Johnny Marr, Southend's own David Woodcock, Royal Blood and Devonte Hynes.  Along with some staff recommendations. This week's new...

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