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Kieron Tyler

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Kieron Tyler has contributed to Britain's MOJO magazine since 1999 and is the author of 'Smashing It Up: A Decade Of Chaos With The Damned', the critically-acclaimed and definitive biography of the first decade of the pioneering British punk rock band. His writing has also appeared in Billboard (America), The Guardian, i (the newspaper), The Independent, Les Inrockuptibles (France), Music Week, Q, Rumba (Finland) and Ugly Things (America).

Articles By Kieron Tyler

Album: Hiss Golden Messenger - Jump for Joy

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps

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Mega Bog, The Lexington review - a synth-pop makeover is tempered with dashes of new wave

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Music Reissues Weekly: Playing for the Man at the Door - Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick

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Album: Laura Groves - Radio Red

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Music Reissues Weekly: Klar!80 - celebrating Düsseldorf’s early Eighties underground

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Album: Maria Wilman - Dark Horse

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Music Reissues Weekly: Glenda Collins, Heinz, David John & The Mood - the latest treasures from Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes

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Julie Byrne, Juni Habel, Kings Place review - finely tuned evening balancing dark with light

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Album: Susanna - Baudelaire & Orchestra

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Music Reissues Weekly: Autonomy - The Productions of Martin Rushent

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Album: Rain Parade - Last Rays of a Dying Sun

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Music Reissues Weekly: Keeping Control, Where Were You - Leeds and Manchester navigate the aftershocks of punk

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Music Reissues Weekly: Musical Offering - works for the Soviet-era ANS synthesiser

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Album: Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Sound - The Statik Records Years

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Alison Spittle, Monkey Barrel ★★★

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Blu-ray: Two Way Stretch / Heavens Above

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You could distinctly hear the murmurs of recognition from the Edinburgh audience – responding to knowing mentions of the city’s Leith and...