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Most consider the 1987 album In My Tribe as magnum opus album for the 10,000 Maniacs . In my 'humble', but ultimately correct op...

It would perhaps be somewhat trite to state that Nah burst onto the indie scene earlier in the year with their superlative March 2018 rel...

The Paris based Howlin Banana Records label have been around for six years now. However they seem to have really come of age in 2018 wit...

Janglepop in the late 1980's and early 1990's was a 'bag load of lad'.   Bands such as R.E.M and McCarthy were busy pol...

Melbourne all female four piece, Parsnip, have taken a year to follow up on their excellent Health EP (released in November 2017) presum...

Charity Shop Pop is the moniker of Dave Hughes , derived after buying a charity shop electric guitar used on this track from a charity s...

Gorgeous Bully are the project of Manchester based, Thomas Crang, who received widespread critical acclaim in the musical worlds that ma...

It would be easy to suggest that Mexico City four piece, Useless Youth , have been causing quite a stir among the good people at  'Jan...

October 2018 saw Janglepophub feature 109 tracks on our album reviews / #dailyjanglepop series and on our various social media sites. ...

It is the law of the veritable 'sod' that the very moment a 'best of 2018 so far' article is posted, Murphy will exerci...

A couple of weeks ago the opening verse of Hanging Out ear-wormed into my mind and resulted in this EP from New York 4 piece, Dolly Sp...

Regular readers will know of the janglepophub love-in with Joplin, Missouri based jangle/surf-gaze band Tennis Club . Joining them in the...

I discovered Grrrl Gang via the superb Just a Game track that was featured on the Jan '18 Various Artists Strawberry Punks  EP out of ...

French based label, Cloudberry Records , have been on a quest to promote the bands that 1980/1990s time forgot for many years now.  ...

I always associate LA based Big Stir Records with the sort of warm, vibrant, rock laced power-pop that you really should seek out to acc...

Firestation Records have assumed the mantle of chief musical archaeologists over the years. Not just because of their superb The Sound ...

I have basically been Japanese for the last couple of months. Not that I have acquired a sudden taste for uncooked fish, battered fried ...

Fickle Finger #0006 is all about 2018 with blog readership providing their favourite bands and then out Editorial team (or me to be exact...

The Augsburg (Germany) based Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten label is the passion of founder Ronny Pinkau . With passion (often) comes...

There was a fair bit of love for the eponymous Tennis Club debut album among janglepophub readers when it was reviewed here earlier i...

At what point should a band show off? At what point should they cast aside any modicum of modesty and think to themselves 'we are pe...

James Dean Driving Experience did not quite fit with the very exact times of the late 1980's and as such missed out on the crit...

Arie van Vliet and his Rotterdam based four piece Lewsberg have been the subject of much gushing love from janglepophub over the last...

I have a little five year old daughter. She is the apple of my eye. She also has two elder brothers whose level of protection towards h...

September 2018 saw Janglepophub feature 122 tracks on our album reviews / #dailyjanglepop series on our various social media sites. T...

As a kid I had a plastic kaleidoscope. In fact I had several over my very earlier years. Like a miniature Captain Pugwash I would thrust...

Sharesprings are from Jakarta in Indonesia and are backed by Indonesian label Dismantled . Immediately the condescending first world...

Just over two years after their sublime Slow Decline of an Evening Herald debut album should have wiggled the beauty receptors of way ...

Without doubt this was the most personal album that Morrissey had released since the debut album by 'The Smiths' over 10 years e...

In my decidedly working class upbringing clever people were overly revered. Anyone who read a lot was something of an academic dem...

I once watched a documentary on one of the 17 squillion channels that our cable TV subscription provides. This in itself was quite an ...

Repo Fam is the latest solo project of Michelle La Pena who could be relied upon to go all manner of ballistc crazy behind the keyboar...

This debut EP from Philadelphia based Athensville, superbly celebrates the period between the mid 80's and very early 90's and e...

August 2018 saw Janglepophub feature 149 tracks on our album reviews / #dailyjanglepop series on our various social media sites. Thes...

I can do clever things with excel spread sheets and I am gainfully employed do so. They give me a nice big office and a few staff that c...

Honey Moon make you need to be in warm climes. They have that strange laconic 'urban surf pop' vibe that exfoliates all things ...

This time around the Fickle Finger has absolutely no discernible topic...it is purely the music that the FF has been pointing at with s...

The Filters are a four piece band hailing from Vermont, consisting of  Ross Temple (guitar),  Ryan Prushinski (drums),  Sam Morris ...

After over two decades of trying to persuade anyone who would listen that he lives a veritable monk-like, celibate existence, in which ...

Last month I got all slushy, mushy, gushy and any other romanticized '...shy' type words that may be eluding me at present, over...

The digital music era we live in, is one of contraction. Much of the music the under 35's love comes from a tiny little yellow folde...