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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).

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Album: Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains - Banane Bleue

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Reissue CDs Weekly: For The Good Times - The Songs Of Kris Kristofferson

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Reissue CDs Weekly: Disco Zombies - South London Stinks

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Reissue CDs Weekly: Allen Ginsberg - At Reed College: The First Recorded Reading of Howl & Other Poems

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Album: Elephant9 - Arrival Of The New Elders

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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Free Design - Butterflies Are Free

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Album: The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings

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Reissue CDs Weekly: Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Destiny Street Complete

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Reissue CDs Weekly: John Mayall - The First Generation

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Album: Hilang Child - Every Mover

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Reissue CDs Weekly: Charles Mingus @ Bremen 1964 & 1975

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Reissue CDs Weekly: Lost Innocence - Garpax 1960s Punk & Psych

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Albums of the Year 2020: Joensuu 1685 - ÖB

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Reissue CDs Weekly: Looking back at 2020

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Reissue CDs Weekly: Sumer Is Icumen In - The Pagan Sound Of British & Irish Folk

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Reissue CDs Weekly: Iggy & The Stooges - You Think You’re Bad, Man? The Road Tapes 1973-74

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