• Albums of the Year- 2025

    Music is amazing. Music is powerful, beautiful, myriad, a marvel, my favourite thing, and, genuinely, life-saving. And there’s so much of it, so much music to fall in love with, […]

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  • MILDRED- ‘Mildred’

    While a lot of new records arrive on cue, fresh and clean, at the end of an extensive promotional campaign to an expectant and prepared public, others seem to appear […]

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  • EMPTY COUNTRY- ‘Empty Country’

    Joseph D’Agostino has been through hell. And of course that doesn’t just mean the injustice of his former band, the terrific but terribly-named Cymbals Eat Guitars, never getting the credit […]

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MODERATEROCKMIXTAPE- April 2025

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I’m a slacker. I know. It says April right there and we’re already halfway through May as I type this out. Maybe I was thrown off by the triumphant return of Turnstile, stumbling over the superb Spanaway sophomore effort from last year, or the fact that this month’s mixtape inexplicably features six (6!) artists beginning with the letter ‘K’. Maybe […]

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#MODERATEROCKMIXTAPE- January 2025

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2025! We made it guys. And it sounds like the future to me. But I’m not sure it feels like anything has changed. Where’s my hoverboard, where’s my off-world vacations, where’s my virtual reality. Instead we’ve got war and warmongers and the cost of my weekly shop doubling. You know what I can rely on though. You know what we […]

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Albums of the Year- 2024

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If you’re anything like me, then you’re not even reading this. You saw the headline or whatever janky way I’ve combined 11 front covers into one image this year, and are now scrolling past this paragraph to skip to the list below. And, listen (or not, I guess), that’s fine. It’s ok. I do the exact same thing. Sometimes if […]

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