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Suede: Antidepressants

Suede (Dean Chalkley)

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Tags BMG, Brett Anderson, Francis Bacon, Fred Otash, J.G. Ballard, James Ellroy, Mat Osman, Neil Codling, oasis, Pulp, Raymond Chandler, Richard Oakes, Simon Gilbert, Suede

Activity: A Thousand Years In Another Way

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 11, 2025
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Activity (photo: Ebru Yildiz)

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Tags Activity, Bri DiGioia, Cormac McCarthy, Don Winslow, James Ellroy, Jeff Berner, Jess Rees, Moderat, Steven Levine, Travis Johnson, Western Vinyl

Album Reviews Features

Corridors of Power: 20 Years with Grails

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Post date September 19, 2023
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Grails

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Monde UFO: Vandalized Statue to be Replaced with Shrine

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date May 30, 2023
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Monde UFO

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Tags Fugazi, James Ellroy, Kern Haug, Kris Chau, Monde UFO, Quindi Records, Ray Monde, Stereolab, Sun Araw, Vanishing Twin

The Don of Destruction: James Ellroy’s ‘Widespread Panic’

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 6, 2023
6 Comments on The Don of Destruction: James Ellroy’s ‘Widespread Panic’

James Ellroy (photo credit: Marion Ellinger)

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Tags Al Copone, Black Sabbath, Dashiell Hammett, David Klein, Dudley Smith, Freddy Otash, James Ellroy, Lloyd Hopkins, Raymond Chandler

Books

Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series – an afterword

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 10, 2022
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Philip Kerr (photo credit: Stephane Grangier)

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Tags Bernie Gunther, Dashiell Hammett, Ian Rankin, James Ellroy, John Iriving, Karin Slaughter, Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Child, Philip Kerr, Quercus, Raymond Chandler

Uniform: Shame – “a withering coalition of sounds from the darkest pits”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 11, 2020
10 Comments on Uniform: Shame – “a withering coalition of sounds from the darkest pits”

Uniform - (photo credit: Ebru Yildiz)

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Tags Algiers, Ben Greenberg, Cormac McCarthy, Dashiell Hammet, Deafheaven, Denis Lehane, James Ellroy, Mike Berdan, Randall Dunn, Raymond Chandler, Sacred Bones, Steve Von Till, Sunn O))), The Body, Uniform