Articles by Michael White

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  Ben Watt

  North Marine Drive

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

  These long-overdue North American editions of the musical baby steps made by Everything but the Girl prove that the duo have always been sp...

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  Boredoms

  Vision Creation Newsun

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  The music of Japan's Boredoms once seemed to exist for no reason but to serve as a dare - an ultimate threshold experiment for avant-noise...

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  La's

  La's

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  Only My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields has been artistically dormant for as long as La's singer-songwriter Lee Mavers. Yet while Shields'...

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  John Martyn

  Solid Air

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  If John Martyn had succumbed to the professional trump card of premature death that claimed his friend Nick Drake (whom this album's title...

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  Various

  The In Crowd: The Story of Northern Soul

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  The In Crowd: The Story of Northern Soul During the '70s, in England's industrial North, hundreds of kids would descend upon clubs like Wig...

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  Call And Response

  Call And Response

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2001

  Californians are hyper-aware that they live in what is, for much of the world, as close to earthly Utopia as can be. Where else has this ev...

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  Death By Chocolate

  Death By Chocolate

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2001

  Unknown but for a cult of Japanese anglophiles and pop trainspotters, Mike Alway has been one of Britain's most doggedly single-minded musi...

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  Nasty On

  Lester Bangs EP

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2001

  There are few better ways that a new group could ingratiate itself to the music press than to name its debut EP, and its title track, after...