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British Music History & Nostalgia

The Genesis of an Iconoclast: Deconstructing Elvis Costello’s My Aim Is True Through a Massive 49th-Anniversary Box Set

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Executive Overview When Stiff Records first unleashed My Aim Is True upon the British public on July 22, 1977, the prevailing odds dictated that it would quietly sink into the bargain bins of musical history. By all rational metrics, the record had no business succeeding. Its creator was a 22-year-old data-entry clerk for a cosmetics … Read more

British Folk & Acoustic

James Yorkston’s La Magnifica: A Quarter-Century Retrospective of an Indelible Folk Iconoclast

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Executive Overview For over two decades, independent music chroniclers have watched Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston evolve from a singular regional phenomenon into one of the most vital, restless, and enduring figures in modern alternative folk. Emerging as the vanguard of the Fence Collective out of the creative oddity of Fife’s East Neuk, Yorkston’s career has … Read more

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