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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

Robert Forster, Lafayette review - élan, spontaneity and thoughtfulness from the former Go-Between

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Album: Cécile McLorin Salvant - Mélusine

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Music Reissues Weekly: Duffy Power - Innovations, Live at the BBC

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Music Reissues Weekly: Heavy Metal Kids - The Albums 1974-76

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Album: Fever Ray - Radical Romantics

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Music Reissues Weekly: Jon Savage's 1980-1982 - The Art Of Things To Come

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Music Reissues Weekly: Stranger In Town - A Del Shannon Compendium

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Music Reissues Weekly: Dave Brubeck Quartet - Debut In The Netherlands 1958

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Marina Allen, Cafe Oto Review - east London substitutes for 1970s Los Angeles

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Music Reissues Weekly: Modern Eon - Fiction Tales

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Album: Amber Arcades - Barefoot On Diamond Road

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Senders - All Killer No Filler

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Northern Winter Beat 2023 review - Panda Bear, Sonic Boom and Širom amongst the highlights in Denmark’s north

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Album: Robert Forster - The Candle and the Flame

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Music Reissues Weekly: Padang Moonrise - The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry

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Music Reissues Weekly: Bob Stanley / Pete Wiggs Present Winter of Discontent

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