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January 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Foo Fighters & Weezer (January 27, Sydney)

Foo Fighters & Weezer ANZ Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park; Sydney, Australia Saturday, January 27 The Foo Fighters are a strange beast – they have been in existence some 22 years. Started, as a solo project by Dave Grohl, a dumping ground for demos he’d been building up in Nirvana’s final moments and then in the […]

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May 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Monkees: Good Times!

The Monkees Good Times! Rhino Records Perhaps no one expected that a new album by The Monkees in 2016 would get rave reviews, but Good Times! is deserving of a great gush. For a start it’s fun (with an exclamation mark to remind us – though it almost evokes that famous question-mark from those hippie-times, […]

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October 5, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Weezer: Everything Will Be Alright In The End

Weezer Everything Will Be Alright In The End Universal Republic What’s important here is not that this is the best Weezer album in a decade or more. What’s important is that that is no real compliment, let alone any sort of achievement. Weezer’s back catalogue is an embarrassment. A couple of still-listenable albums – in […]