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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

Jaye Jayle: Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down

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Post date August 29, 2023
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Jaye Jayle (photo: Brian Cook)

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Tags Ben Chisholm, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Chelsea Wolfe, Chris Maggio, Corey Smith, Emma Ruth Rundle, Evan Patterson, Jaye Jayle, Neal Argabright, Patrick Shiroishi, Pelagic Records, Raymond Chandler, Todd Cook, Young Widows

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

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Post date January 6, 2023
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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

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Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series – an afterword

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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”

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Post date September 11, 2020
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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