Co-founders Sir Mark Flunder & Gregory Webster really were inspired to pick up guitars by Mark Perry's original Sniffin' Glue manifesto 'here's a chord, here's another...go form a band' back in 1976. Flunder soon joined the seminal 'Painted Word' era Television Personalities, while Webster came straight outta Luton in Creation's Tweecore faves Razorcuts. They joined forces in Sportique in 1997, armed with intent to produce year zero new wave for anyone who still cared. John Peel certainly seemed to, and as...   [ read more ]

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Cha Cha Cohen don't play the sort of Jewish ballroom-dancing favorites that their name might lead you to expect. Even so, the diverse mix of dark cocktail grooves, beat-heavy indie pop, and fluid retro funk found on their second album for Chemikal Underground may set your feet moving and your head bobbing. With roots in two storied bands from the late 20th century, Cha Cha Cohen have an excellent pedigree: bassist Keith Gregory and drummer Simon Smith did stints with Leeds favorites the Wedding Present and...   [ read more ]

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Being perhaps the most identifiable musician behind the song poem industry in the '60s and '70s, Rodd Keith's musical genius is often brought up and admired, but until now there have been no recordings available of what Keith produced outside M.S.R. Records studios and the confined performances applied to his customers' lyrics. Ecstacy to Frenzy changes that, as Keith's son, jazz saxophonist Ellery Eskelin, explains in his liner notes: "It has been immensely gratifying to see Rodd g...   [ read more ]

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