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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Sheryl Crow, David Garrett

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming major label releases.

This week, your Mango has something for everybody.

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Hellyeah, In This Moment, Jerrod Nieman, Audrey Assad, Great Big Sea

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming major label releases. It’s a very busy week for music. Maybe the record companies have had the corporate poop scared out of them by Prince‘s declaration that all electronic media is dead, and have thus thrown out everything with a chance at making [...]

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Pintsized Popper Prince Pushes Pap In Paper, Proves Past Peak

by Randy Figgins

My early years took place in that terrible time of flux as the 80s closed and the 90s opened up. The Berlin Wall was crumbling, Thatcher was on her way out, the greed-is-good years were still in full swing. So how the hell did the grown-ups of this era not do better than Saved by [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Texas Hippie Coalition, Trailer Choir, Cyndi Lauper

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming major-label releases. Today is the fifth of July and, in America, a national holiday. We believe it has something to do with a decision the American people once made about wanting to be disrespectful to their elders and betters, and literally biting the [...]

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Gig Review: Paul McCartney, Hard Rock Calling

by Iain Haywood

I should preface this. I should preface a lot of things in fact, usually with “She was already dead”, but in this case, I need only disclose that I’m not a critic. Critics are invariably asteroidal pricks, and I’m not. I really am just the world’s greatest. So it was my birthday, see, and I [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: The Gaslight Anthem, Drake, Now That’s What I Call The USA

by Paul Gibson

Ouch. It was a bad performance overall, made somewhat worse by that moment, and – for us – the pain was doubled by the fact that we watched the match in the presence of Americans, Italians, Germans and – worst of all – Scottishes. This meant that it felt exactly like watching a re-run of [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Hanson, Blitzen Trapper, Twilight: Eclipse

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of the next fortnight’s major label releases. Later this week, the American football (note, only one capital letter) team will shatter the dreams of 51 million English people, while simultaneously raising the spirits of eight million Scots and Welshes. The response of Northern Irelanders we [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Futureheads, Widespread Panic, Hank Williams III, Sleigh Bells

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of the next fortnight’s major label releases. Okay, Mangons, there’s a ton of stuff to get through this week. That means no dicking around, no rambling introduction about such irrelevant topics as politics (if you pressed a thumbtack into David Cameron‘s face, would his over-inflated [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Band Of Horses, Mary Gauthier, Exodus, Tracey Thorn

by Paul Gibson

It’s all over. The UK has a new Government, the pound is rampaging though the world’s currency markets like a coked-up Chuck Norris, and next week each citizen will be receiving an ingot of gold and a box of Mr Kipling’s French Fancies through the post. Alternatively… the UK has a new government, the pound [...]

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Hecklerspray’s Monday Music Mango: Slash, Jennifer Knapp, The National

by Paul Gibson

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of this week’s major label releases. Tired of all the political nonsense? Course you are. Well, come on in here, pull up a chair and take a slice out of our fruity flesh. Go on: cut us. Cut us like you’re Danny Dyer and we’re [...]

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