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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: Kiiōtō - As Dust we Rise

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Music Reissues Weekly: Cluster - Zuckerzeit

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Cryin’ Shames - Please Stay, Do The Strum! - Joe Meek's Girl Groups and Pop Chanteuses

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Rain Parade, 229 review - the Paisley Underground perennials prove unafraid of their past

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Music Reissues Weekly: Margo Guryan - Words and Music

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Album: John Grant - The Art of the Lie

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Music Reissues Weekly: Moving Away from the Pulsebeat - Post-Punk Britain 1977-1981

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Beatles - Stowe School 1963

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Album: Marina Allen - Eight Pointed Star

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Music Reissues Weekly: Jon Savage's The Secret Public - How The LGBTQ+ Aesthetic Shaped Pop Culture

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Album: Samana - Samana

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Music Reissues Weekly: Andwella - To Dream

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Conchúr White, St Pancras Old Church review - side-stepping the past to embrace the future

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Music Reissues Weekly: Little Girls - Valley Songs

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Music Reissues Weekly: West Coast Consortium - All The Love In The World

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Album: The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know

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Album: Twenty One Pilots - Breach

For the past decade, the Ohio alternative superstars Twenty One Pilots have cultivated a deep lore starting with 2015’s Blurryface, and...