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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: Happy In Hollywood - The Productions Of Gary Usher

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Music Reissues Weekly: Judex - Cult of Judex

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Album: Laura Veirs - Found Light

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Music Reissues Weekly: Ferkat Al Ard - Oghneya

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Album: Gwenno - Tresor

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Music Reissues Weekly: Whatever You Want - Bob Crewe's 60s Soul Sounds

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Blk Jks, Moth Club review - Johannesburg’s art-rockers are more straightforward live than on album

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Music Reissues Weekly: Ban the Bomb - Music of the Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Marches

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Music Reissues Weekly: Barney Wilen - Zodiac

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Album: Shearwater - The Great Awakening

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Music Reissues Weekly: In A Rocking Mood - Beverley’s Rock Steady 1966-1968

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Album: Wren Hinds - A Child's Chant for a New Millennium

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theartsdesk in Bergen: Nattjazz, Nutshell review - Norway makes the case that musical genres are obsolete

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Music Reissues Weekly: John Barry - The More Things Change

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Album: Yama Warashi - Crispy Moon

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Music Reissues Weekly: Patty Waters - You Loved Me

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