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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: Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night

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Music Reissues Weekly: Let's Stomp - Merseybeat and Beyond

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Music Reissues Weekly: Heavenly - Le Jardin de Heavenly

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Music Reissues Weekly: Folk, Funk & Beyond - The Arrangements Of John Cameron

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Album: Shirley Collins - Archangel Hill

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Father John Misty sings Scott Walker, Barbican review - edging towards the supernatural

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Music Reissues Weekly: Cock Sparrer - The Decca Years

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Tallinn Music Week 2023 review - when music is unavoidably the language of freedom

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Music Reissues Weekly: Cherry Stars Collide, Waves of Distortion

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Album: BC Camplight - The Last Rotation of Earth

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Die Verlierer, New River Studios review - Berlin punks instantly find an audience at their UK debut

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Music Reissues Weekly: Tony Rivers - Move A Little Closer: The Complete Recordings 1963-1970

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Music Reissues Weekly: Loma Northern Soul

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theartsdesk Q&A: musician Susanne Sundfør - ‘Blómi is a message of hope for whoever might need it’

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Album: Susanne Sundfør - Blómi

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Music Reissues Weekly: Joe Meek And The Blue Men - I Hear A New World Sessions

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Concerts need to have themes, it seems, today, and the BBC Philharmonic’s publicity suggested two contrasting ideas for the opening of its 2025-26...