TANYA DONELLY – Lovesongs For Underdogs

5014436700828Best known as frontwoman for Belly and sometime member of Throwing Muses, this first solo outing by Tanya Donelly is everything you’d expect. Issued on 4AD records in 1997, ‘Lovesongs For Underdogs’ does not always sound like great departure from previous work with Belly; but while not greatly different, it manages to pull together the soft sounds of that band’s ‘Star’ and rockier parts of ‘King’ on one release.  In that respect, it could be viewed as Donelly’s most “complete” record.

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R.E.M. ‘Green’ deluxe edition to be released in May

A 2CD deluxe edition of R.E.M.’s ‘Green’ will be released in May. Arguably the band’s finest album, the new edition pairs the original release with a disc of previously unreleased live recordings.

The newly released live gig was recorded live in Greensboro in 1989 on the penultimate night of the ‘Green’ tour.

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DE LA CRUZ – Street Level

DE LA CRUZ sl COVERThere have been some great bands exported from Australisia over the decades.  Crowded House have blessed us with near-perfect and often very thoughtful pop; Cold Chisel raised the bar for no-nonsense rock ‘n’ roll; Peter Garrett and Midnight Oil proved – perhaps more than any of their American counterparts – that hard rock and politics can go hand in hand and still shift millions of units.  Something UK and US audiences rarely associated with the southern hemispheres is sleaze/glam rock.  Frontiers signings De La Cruz are here to help fly that flag.

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