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Don McLean - Botanical Gardens - It is probably his best work for many years, not perfect but filled with elements of wonder and intrigue ow.ly/CpAt50gUbVZ

Joe Bonamassa - Brighton Centre - As with every gig I have seen him perform he shows that he loves the music and is as invested in it as his audience is. A brilliant night. ow.ly/31OG50gUbVY

Music Review: Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends - Camp Cope How to Socialise & Make Friends [Run for Cover; 2018] Rating: 3.5/5 Camp Cope hide in plain sight. Couching their music in the warm, comfortable, familiar sounds of indie rock’s las... ow.ly/8WMe50gUxGN

Music Review: Yo La Tengo - There’s a Riot Going On - Yo La Tengo There’s a Riot Going On [Matador; 2018] Rating: 3/5 Every time I think about Yo La Tengo’s There’s a Riot Going On, I come back to the same essential question: whether I find this album... ow.ly/k18g50gUxGM

Shaun Kelly & The Returned Gifts - The Boy On The Bench - Bright and enthusiastic melodic pop – excellent playing and songs that really catch the ear. What’s not to like? ow.ly/iJ0R50gV1uf

Premiere: The Cyclist - “Cologne Halls” - When 100% Silk, or their parent label Not Not Fun, puts out a new record with a companion cassette, you know that’s being added to your shopping cart. Whether it’s the humid, languorous synths of X.Y.R., the m... ow.ly/BHA250gV5a6

Music Review: John Tejada - Dead Start Program - John Tejada Dead Start Program [Kompakt; 2018] Rating: 3.5/5 John Tejada’s Dead Start Program is something of an entry-level electronic myth-busting event. That’s no criticism, surely: Tejada has arrang... ow.ly/YbdL50gVubn

Music Review: Alvin Lucier - Criss-Cross / Hanover - Alvin Lucier Criss-Cross / Hanover [Black Truffle; 2018] Rating: 4/5 Instructions for listening to Criss-Cross/Hanover by Alvin Lucier: 1. Read this: “Almost 50 years after he famously sat in a room... ow.ly/kmh550gVubm

The Dead South - Illusion & Doubt - So I’m blown Away by this album from The Dead South. Folk & Bluegrass with no sense of holding back or keeping to tradition. ow.ly/NYSA50gVZ4N

JP Cooper - This World Poetry Day (March 21st), coffee roaster Julius Meinl and critically acclaimed musician, JP Cooper, invites ow.ly/uupy50gW08j

Kurt Vile announces first full-band shows with The Violators in over a year, because he’d been napping in the interim - Whoa, WHAT YEAR IS THIS? For a while there, it seems like hazy, dreamy, snooze-folk troubadour Kurt Vile got just a little TOO hazy... ow.ly/vTjG50gW1fD

Premiere: Ohm - “G5” [Side A excerpt] - While a teenage me would have geeked out over the latest Coldplay or John Mayer release (you read that right), full grown me is going equally bonkers over new, weirder, and darker noise recordings. With that dee... ow.ly/J9J950gW1fE

Music Review: Liziuz - Geschichten des Lebens - Liziuz Geschichten des Lebens [Hospital; 2018] Rating: 3.5/5 Engaging with desolation should be a laughably quaint notion by now. Especially when one sees that the pursuit has competing interests, all co... ow.ly/lHv750gWqBV

TMT Comics: Dream Diary - “The Artistic Impulse” - An ongoing series. More of this kind of thing at pipcraighead.com ow.ly/1cEW50gWqBW

Tom Grennan - O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire - A sold-out show at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire is always guaranteed to be a one to remember and Tom Grennan’s gig was just that. The Bedford born and bred singer-songwriter’s meteoric rise began just 2 years ago... ow.ly/ck4g50gWUdh

Interview: Seth Graham - The music published by Orange Milk, an underground behemoth of experimental music and cassette culture co-founded by Seth Graham and Keith Rankin (a.k.a. Giant Claw), feels like multiple authors contributing their stories to o... ow.ly/aEbX50gWYh5

♫ Listen: Peter Zummo - Frame Loop - This, the finest merry-go-round, with its sprawling plume-framed mirrors reflecting ancient expressions of glamor; it’s lavishly adorned seats made of gold and hard rock; its beautifully carved and carefully painte... ow.ly/KRkV50gWYh4

Andy Michaels - Australian singer/songwriter sings like an angel. He's a lyrical anomaly, and a phenomenal poet. He has just released a new ow.ly/m04K50gWYQu

Music Review: Preoccupations - New Material - Preoccupations New Material [Jagjaguwar; 2018] Rating: 4/5 The most troubling thing about Preoccupations’ depiction of anxiety and restlessness is the implication that it can happen to anyone. Vocalist Mat... ow.ly/V1YS50gXmEY