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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

Music Reissues Weekly: Beggars Arkive - Gary Numan's 1979 John Peel session

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The Estonian Song and Dance Celebration 2025 review - the mass expression of freedom

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Album: Gwenno - Utopia

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Music Reissues Weekly: Motörhead - The Manticore Tapes

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Album: Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise

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Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind

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Album: BC Camplight - A Sober Conversation

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Sonics - High Time

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Patrick Wolf, Rough Trade East review - the Kent-based bard refashions his new album ‘Crying the Neck’

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Music Reissues Weekly: Pilot - The Singles Collection

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Album: Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts

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Music Reissues Weekly: Gather In The Mushrooms

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Music Reissues Weekly: Pete Shelley - Homosapien, XL-1

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Alan Sparhawk, EartH Theatre review - an absorbing game of two halves from the former Low mainstay

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Album: Sally Shapiro - Ready to Live a Lie

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Music Reissues Weekly: Johnnie Taylor - Who's Making Love The Stax Singles 1966-1970

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