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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: All Turned On! Motown Instrumentals 1960-1972

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The Weather Station, Scala review - communion achieved against the odds

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Album: Maridalen - Bortenfor

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Music Reissues Weekly: Theatre Of Hate - Omens

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Music Reissues Weekly: Broadcast - Maida Vale Sessions, Microtronics, Mother Is The Milky Way

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Album: Midlake - For the Sake of Bethel Woods

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Music Reissues Weekly: Blossom Toes - We Are Ever So Clean

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Music Reissues Weekly: Bernard Butler - People Move On

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Music Reissues Weekly: U-Roy - Version Galore

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Album: Basia Bulat - The Garden

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Music Reissues Weekly: Dick Raaijmakers aka Kid Baltan, and Tom Dissevelt

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Music Reissues Weekly: Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Electric Prunes - Then Came The Dawn Complete Recordings 1966-1969

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Music Reissues Weekly: Stan Tracey Trio - The 1959 Sessions

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Music Reissues Weekly: Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds - Stormy Monday And The Eagles Fly On Friday

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Album: Grace Cummings - Storm Queen

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