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Paul Browne 22nd September 202322nd September 2023 Johnny Marr

JOHNNY MARR to release Best Of album

Johnny Marr has announced the release of Spirit Power: The Best Of Johnny Marr. Set for release on 3rd November.

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Paul Browne 21st September 202321st September 2023 Duran Duran

DURAN DURAN reveal Black Moonlight

Duran Duran have released new single ‘Black Moonlight’, taken from their upcoming album Danse Macabre.

Interviews

Paul Browne 18th September 202318th September 2023 Andy McCluskey, OMD, Paul Humphreys

BAUHAUS TALES: An Interview with OMD

“This album only exists because we think it’s good enough to exist as a collection of songs…” With the forthcoming

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Paul Browne 7th September 2023 David Bowie

DAVID BOWIE PIN UPS 50th Anniversary Release

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of David Bowie’s classic collection of cover songs, Pin Ups, originally released 19th October

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Paul Browne 6th September 20236th September 2023 Vince Clarke

VINCE CLARKE announces Solo Album

Vince Clarke has announced details of his debut solo album, Songs of Silence, a 10-track lyric-less album of uncategorisable ambient

Reviews

Paul Browne 3rd September 20233rd September 2023 Birmingham Electric, Blaklight, Brutalist Architecture In The Sun, Chain Complex, Diskoteq, Generation Blitz, Inferior Complex, Jigsaw Sequence, LorD And Master, MONOPLAN, Montage Collective, MORE, Nature Of Wires, nON sTOP eROTIC cABABRET, Nostalgia Deathstar, Parralox, Platronic, Scenius, The Frixion, The Rude Awakening, Tiny Magnetic Pets, Wavewulf

GENERATION BLITZ – Dusk To Dawn

‘Generation Blitz’ was dreamed up as a creative concept that pays tribute to the Blitz Club spirit. Compiled by Martin James and Timo Jalkanen with support from Gary Fones, the album has been billed as an effort that is “reclaiming the 1980s from Stranger Things cosplayers, neon obsessives and Miami Vice nostalgics”. A sentiment of brash confidence and swagger that seems perfectly in-step with the Blitz ethos.

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Paul Browne 31st August 202331st August 2023

SOFT CELL ‘NON-STOP EROTIC CABARET’ 6-CD 98-TRACK SUPER DELUXE EDITION

Initially released in November 1981, Soft Cell’s classic album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, in the words of Marc Almond, “Tells a

Features

Paul Browne 25th August 202325th August 2023 a-ha, Berlin, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Electric Youth, OMD, Tears For Fears

Pop Songs At The Movies

The movie business has served up many successful (and sometimes unsuccessful) films whose appeal is given a boost by incorporating popular songs into their soundtracks. In this excerpt from a feature in the September Blitzed, we look at a wide variety of movies that have made good use of a particular song (and sometimes in the most unexpected ways).