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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: Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Friends - People Funny Boy: The Upsetter Singles 1968-1969

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Music Reissues Weekly: Peter Baumann - Phase by Phase: The Virgin Albums

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Album: Mercury Rev - Born Horses

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Music Reissues Weekly: Shadowplay - Touch and Glow, Eggs & Pop

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Music Reissues Weekly: Having a Rave-Up! - The British R&B Sounds of 1964

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Album: Pom Poko - Champion

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Music Reissues Weekly: White Noise - An Electric Storm

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Album: Mari Kvien Brunvoll & Stein Urheim with Moskus - Barefoot in Bryophyte

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Music Reissues Weekly: Sex Pistols - Looking For a Kiss in Kristinehamn

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Album: Personal Trainer - Still Willing

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Music Reissues Weekly: Tomorrow's Fashions - Library Electronica 1972-1987

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Album: Kevin Fowley - À Feu Doux

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Music Reissues Weekly: Barry Ryan - The Albums 1969-1979

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Music Reissues Weekly: Atlanta - Hotbed of 70s Soul

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Album: Chris Cohen - Paint a Room

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Music Reissues Weekly: Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning

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Album: Twenty One Pilots - Breach

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