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Album: The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon

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Supersonic Festival 2025, Birmingham review - a deep dive into the spectacularly weird and very wonderful

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Album: The Hives - The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives

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Gibby Haynes, O2 Academy 2, Birmingham review - ex-Butthole Surfer goes School of Rock

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Album: Adrian Sherwood - The Collapse of Everything

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Album: Rise Against - Ricochet

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Album: Alice Cooper - The Revenge of Alice Cooper

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Album: The Near Jazz Experience - Tritone

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Album: Yungblud - Idols

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Album: The Young Gods - Appear Disappear

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Album: Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts - Talkin' to the Trees

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Songhoy Blues, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham review - West African crew raise the roof

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10 Questions for musician Michael Gira

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Pixies, O2 Academy, Birmingham review - indie veterans pack the house

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Album: Billy Nomates - Metalhorse

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Primal Scream, O2 Academy, Birmingham review - from anthems of social justice to songs of heartbreak

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Album: The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon

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