Articles by Michael White

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  Go-Betweens

  Spring Hill Fair

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  A handful of critics have spent the better part of 15 years lamenting the fact that the Go-Betweens failed to become the Beatles of their g...

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  Great Lakes

  The Distance Between

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  If you can't rely on your friends to help out, whom can you depend on? And if your friends include the likes of Elf Power, the Apples In St...

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  Various

  Backcomb'n'Beat

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Rooting among the darkest corners of any musical genre usually turns up more trash than treasure - ask any garage-punk aficionado contempla...

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  Television Personalities

  The Painted Word

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Television Personalities had been widely dismissed as the jokers in the post-punk deck when the most volatile of its ever-changing line-ups...

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  The Pastels

  Truckload of Trouble

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Wielding the internalised worldview of a lovesick schoolchild as though it were the most heroic stance imaginable, slight Glaswegian Stephe...

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  Thomas & Richard Frost

  Visualize

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  The annals of pop are rife with dubious legends about "great, lost” albums that, had they been released in their time, would have irrevocab...

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  Razorcuts

  R is for... Razorcuts

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  If you were lucky enough to know Razorcuts during their brief late '80s existence, they became inextricably entwined with your own everyday...

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  Paul Weller

  Illumination

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Those who argue that Paul Weller's career is built upon the rock of conservatism haven't paid close attention. Whether explicit (the Jam) o...