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Peter Thomas Webb
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Teacher, musician, music writer.
Staff Writer: https://www.popmatters.com/author/peter-webb
Contributor: https://www.thetonearm.com/author/peter/
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My latest article in PopMatters, on the folksinger Vashti Bunyan. www.popmatters.com/vashti-bunya...
Vashti Bunyan's Folk Classic 'Lookaftering' Is Still Astonishing » PopMatters
Twenty years later, the Expanded Edition of Vashti Bunyan's Lookaftering sustains the quiet force of an artist entirely in command of her craft. Nothing else sounds quite like it.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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My new interview with the Toronto multi-instrumentalist and artist Avi C. Engel, published in The Tonearm.

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Ancient Strings Meet Experimental Sound: Avi C. Engel's 'Nocturne'
Between visual art and sonic experiments, Avi C. Engel's latest album 'Nocturne' weaves together ancient sounds, field recordings, and poetry into music that demands its own imaginary cinema.
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January 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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PopMatters presents 2024's best album reissues, including my reviews of David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Joni Mitchell, and a box set compilation of 80s darkwave.
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The 30 Best Album Re-Issues of 2024
The year's best album re-issues include rock legends, essential R&B artists, classic pop, jazz, alternative rock, global beats and so much more.
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December 16, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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The 80 Best Albums of 2024
The best albums of 2024 challenged orthodoxies, blended and created new genres, and spanned a vast range of musical styles and traditions, while looking forward.
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December 12, 2024 at 3:22 AM
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New feature interview with Chicago rock band Spun Out... My first feature for US journal The Tonearm

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Chicago’s Spun Out Dream in Full Color
Built on Mikey Wells's hook-laden songwriting and propelled by dual synthesizers, Spun Out's 'Dream Noise' pushes past the boundaries of conventional indie rock through a mix of punk attitude and elec...
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December 6, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Visited Aux 33 Tours record stores in Montreal to interview the owner for an upcoming article. What an amazing store... heaven for a music junkie like me.
Image shows vinyl LPs and cassette tapes arranged on a wooden table.
November 17, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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The old cigarette machine has been turned into a tape vending machine at the very cool Vera Project.
November 16, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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This song. Damn. youtu.be/Ii4ubl3URhc?...
MJ Lenderman: Wristwatch | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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November 16, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Working my way through this year's #DavidBowie box set Rock 'N' Roll Star... demos and live tracks from the Hunky Dory/ Ziggy Stardust. As for this live appearance on TOGWT, rock music just doesn't get any better than this. What's your fave Bowie track from this period?

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David Bowie - Queen Bitch (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972)
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November 14, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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#AlbumForToday - #TheBeatles - Yellow Submarine. The animated film premiered in the US on 13 Nov 1968, introducing a generation of schoolkids to psychedelia (minus the drugs). The 1969 soundtrack LP included "Hey Bulldog" and "Only a Northern Song" -- two of the Fabs' hidden gems.
#GreatRockAlbums
Image shows an animated Beatles in a scene from the film Yellow Submarine on the cover of the soundtrack album.
November 13, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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#AlbumForToday #IsaacHayes - Hot Buttered Soul (1969). In which Hayes extends "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" to eighteen minutes and not a single molasses-grooved moment of it is wasted.

What are your thoughts on this album?

#GreatSoulAlbums
Image shows the shaved head of Isaac Hayes as he leans forward on the cover of Hot Buttered Soul.
November 12, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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#AlbumForToday #Donovan - Mellow Yellow (1966). This US-released LP had one of Donovan's catchiest hits, but also contained pastoral folk numbers inspiring to the likes of #NickDrake.

Tell us your thoughts on this album.

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Image shows the yellow and orange proto-psychedelic cover of Donovan's Mellow Yellow LP.
November 11, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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#TheCure – Songs of a Lost World (2024). “Alone,” the opener of the Cure’s first studio album in 16 years, is half over before Robert Smith begins to sing. This unhurried pace is reflected in each of the nine tracks. Not quite #Disintegration, but a fine return to form. #GreatRockAlbums #Music
Image shows a large space rock, like an asteroid, on the cover of the new Cure album.
November 11, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Review: The Grateful Dead accidentally invent the alt.country movement on American Beauty
"While its accessibility is probably overrated, American Beauty is a great album of dusty melodies laced with earthy poeticism"
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November 11, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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Ambient Composer Jon Hopkins Shares His Latest 'RITUAL'
British ambient composer Jon Hopkins creates dark, intimate landscapes of analogue and electronic sound on his new "ceremonial" album 'RITUAL'.
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November 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Cassandra Jenkins Trips the Cosmos on My Light, My Destroyer
Brimming with cosmic musings and darkened Americana, 'My Light, My Destroyer' earns Cassandra Jenkins a place among the best contemporary singer-songwriters.
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November 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Kasabian Deliver Infectious Grooves on 'Happenings'
Conceived in a spirit of celebration, Kasabian's eighth LP is a concise, stadium-friendly set of danceable, infectiousness pop-rock for life's brighter moments.
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November 11, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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'No Songs Tomorrow' Compiles the Best of 1980s Darkwave
'No Songs Tomorrow', a new compilation from Cherry Red Records, offers a new perspective on darkwave, coldwave, and other ethereal delights from the 1980s.
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November 11, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Upon the Edge of No Escape: Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures at 45
A unique-sounding album, 'Unknown Pleasures' retains the dark mystery of Ian Curtis and Joy Division while anticipating future moods and genres.
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November 11, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Complete List of Joy Division Albums and Discography
Joy Division were one of the key bands in the British post-punk movement of the late 1970s and early 80s. Consisting of Ian Curtis (lead vocals), Bernard
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November 11, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Top 10 Humble Pie Albums
Humble Pie was one of England's foremost hard rock bands from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. Best known for their thundering double-live album,
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November 11, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Top 10 Thin Lizzy Albums
Our list of Thin Lizzy's Top 10 albums celebrates the career of one of the all-time great hard rock bands. Most rock fans will recognize top hits like
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November 11, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Top 10 April Wine Albums
Our selection of Top 10 April Wine albums pays tribute to one of Canada's legendary rock bands. Internationally successful during the late 1970s and early
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November 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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Frank Zappa's Whisky a Go Go 1968 Appears in Deluxe Edition
Released this month in a Super Deluxe Edition, 'Whisky a Go Go 1968' recovers a legendary "lost" performance by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
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November 11, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Neil Young's 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere' at 55
Alternating brooding rock anthems with ragged country-rock, 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere' set Neil Young on a musical quest that continues 55 years later.
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November 11, 2024 at 4:57 PM