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January 10, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

VA HarmonyInMyHead CherryRed

In recent years, Cherry Red Records has made waves with their box set celebrations of music eras gone by.  From late-'70s Scottish independent releases and '60s Baroque pop, to '80s shoegaze and even the avant-garde sound explorations of Edgard Varese and Karlheinz Stockhausen, the label has a reputation for their meticulous deep-dives into music subcultures. In November, Cherry Red put the spotlight on the late-'70s U.K. pop-rock scene with Harmony In My Head:  UK Power Pop & New Wave,

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Buzzcocks, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Squeeze, The Searchers, Wreckless Eric

January 6, 2019 By

VA HarmonyInMyHead CherryRed

This 3-CD set is a musical exploration of the development of British New Wave. While in the U.S. "new wave" was a lose term applied to pretty much any pop that came out in the late '70s and early '80s, U.K. purveyors used the term to refer to their deliberate reaction to, if not rejection of, the punk musical aesthetic.  It eventually mutated into the Mod Revival--members of which drew greatly from the melody-driven pop of the '60s--and later to another unique British psychedelic strand in the

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Categories: Uncategorized Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Buzzcocks, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Squeeze, The Searchers, Wreckless Eric

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