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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

Julie Byrne, Juni Habel, Kings Place review - finely tuned evening balancing dark with light

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Album: Susanna - Baudelaire & Orchestra

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Music Reissues Weekly: Autonomy - The Productions of Martin Rushent

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Album: Rain Parade - Last Rays of a Dying Sun

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Music Reissues Weekly: Keeping Control, Where Were You - Leeds and Manchester navigate the aftershocks of punk

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Music Reissues Weekly: Musical Offering - works for the Soviet-era ANS synthesiser

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Album: Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Sound - The Statik Records Years

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Music Reissues Weekly: Blossom Dearie - Discover Who I Am

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Album: Brigid Mae Power - Dream From The Deep Well

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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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