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Audiophile Review: Ella Fitzgerald to Gary Numan, Record Store Day Fun On Colored Vinyl and Tidal

Bauhaus Make Triumphant Return After 13 Years, on the Heels of Peter Murphy’s Heart Attack

Biffy Clyro Ruthlessly Rate All Seven of Their Albums

In Rank Your Records, Noisey talks to members of bands who have amassed substantial discographies over the years and ask them to rate their releases in order of personal preference.

Diffuser: 25 Years Ago: Buffalo Tom Take a Step Forward on ‘Let Me Come Over’

Diffuser.FM writes about the evolution of Buffalo Tom and the time "that produced an album that served as a cult touchstone for the alt-rock generation."

A beginner's guide to The Charlatans with Tim Burgess

The Charlatans frontman talks Digital Spy through their greatest ever songs.

Classic Rock - How The Cult's Electric helped save rock

Cornershop Flash Back to ‘When I Was Born for the 7th Time’

We're revisiting a few of our picks for Album of the Year — today, Cornershop's kaleidoscopic Radiohead-slayer

Record Collector reviews The First Recordings releases

Kerrang - The 16 essential goth albums you need to know - Bauhaus/Mask

Kerrang - The 16 essential goth albums you need to know - Fields Of The Nephilim/The Nephilim

Kerrang - The 16 essential goth albums you need to know - The Cult/Dreamtime

Le Tigre Talk Clinton Support, Disabling the Comments, and Secret Feminism in 2016

DIFFUSER FM: 30 Years Ago: Love and Rockets Evolve From Bauhaus With ‘Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven’

DIFFUSER.FM: How Love and Rockets Shifted Into High Gear With ‘Express’

THE QUIETUS: 35 Years On: Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven By Love And Rockets

Louder Than War gives the Blu Ray a 9/10

One of the best Reissues of 2023, Moonshake's Eva Luna

PETER MURPHY - FIVE ALBUMS - 8/10

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THE BEST REISSUES OF 2019: The First Recordings of Two Gary Numan Classics

CLRVYNT: Count on a Comeback for Unsung Post-Britpop Heroes Six by Seven

We got Olley on the phone to discuss this flurry of activity for the band, and why they were always overlooked, despite their greatness.

Drowned In Sound: DiS meets Chris Olley from Six By Seven

DiS visited Chris Olley at his home and spent a couple of hours discussing Six By Seven and the making of The Closer You Get, the music industry and his adopted city of Nottingham.

Record Collector album reviews

Record Collector reviews The Closer You Get + Greatest Hits
"We certainly owe them love by now"

Uncut: Review of The Closer You Get

Mojo album review - Greatest Hits

4 star MOJO review of the 2017 Six. By Seven Greatest Hits collection

Q: album review - The Closer You Get

Q Magazine reviews the 2017 reissue of Six By Seven's "The Closer You Get".

Buffalo Tom Hangs On To The Beat

An update on the band's activities in 2016 from The Boston Globe

For Ian Astbury, The Cult Is Not a Legacy Act

Even in middle life, Cult frontman Ian Astbury flashes the wide-eyed bemusement of an adolescent punker struggling to identify with stodgy, sensible grown-ups. As his band of three decades preps the release of its 10th album of elegant hard rock, he’s a starburst of creative ambition and hyper-curiosity, frustrated by the fiscal realities of digital-age music commerce and the stylistic expectations foisted upon veteran acts.

LA WEEKLY - THE CULT REVISITS THE SONIC TEMPLE WITH ONE EYE ON THE FUTURE

Interview: The Cult’s Ian Astbury on 30 years of ‘Sonic Temple’, making nice with Dave Grohl, and all things sonic

Guitar Player - "Only in Retrospect Do You Realize That Something Was Your Peak”: Billy Duffy Looks Back on the Cult’s ‘Sonic Temple’

Mark Wheat explains: How I fell for The Fall

Mark Wheat of The Current discusses how he fell for the music of The Fall

The Quietus album review - A Sides by Mick Middles

Album review via The Quietus, by Mick Middles

Review - The Fall – 458489 A Sides

10 Songs That Defined the Fall and Mark E. Smith

Pitchfork - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong

Pitchfork's review of 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong

Legend of the Fall: Mark E Smith kept swinging to the end

Quietus album review - I Am Kurious Oranj

Hear highlights from late, great post-punk malcontent Mark E. Smith's sprawling four-decade discography

The Go-Betweens – 10 of the best

From shambolic cult pop to FM-friendly accessibility, these tracks display Grant McLennan’s melodic genius and Robert Forster’s lyrical brilliance

Eternal Contenders

Into The Subconscious: Fields Of The Nephilim Interviewed

Ben Graham talks to Carl McCoy about Fields Of The Nephilim, magick and the importance of keeping a sense of humour

Did Orangeism Pave The Way For The Atom Bomb? I Am Kurious Oranj At 30

The Quietus: Gary Numan's Dance Revisited

Peter Murphy's Existential State

Peter Murphy's Existential State. A Long Interview with the ex-Bauhaus Singer and Solo Artist from Seattle's The Stranger.

Graded on a Curve

The 2011 Shindig! Quarterly #1 Epic Interview

A Quietus Interview - Thee Hypnotics And The Breakthrough Album That Never Was

With 1993’s The Very Crystal Speed Machine set to get its first UK release as part of their Righteously Remastered box set, reunited rock & roll preachers Thee Hypnotics tell Julian Marszalek about the album that should have made them but instead wore them down

TONES ON TAIL ‘POP’ : Reissue of post Bauhaus project sounds even better today

Tones on Tail’s Glenn Campling shares rare live footage of band performing in 1984

Hey, Student! It’s a Beginner’s Guide to the Fall

Watch Pearl Jam Cover Buffalo Tom’s “Tailights Fade” With Bill Janovitz At Fenway

Watch Pearl Jam Cover Buffalo Tom’s “Tailights Fade” With Bill Janovitz At Fenway