Lean Left – Live at Cafe Oto - October 2018 October 30th, 2018

Sleeve notes by Stew for this blistering live set by American-Dutch-Scandinavian free-improv quartet. The Ex guitars meet Nilssen-Love/Vandermark Duo. Lean Left throws together two explosive duos – the sax/drums collision course of Ken Vandermark and Paal Nilsson-Love with the piledriving guitarists from The Ex – to make up a positively apocalyptic quartet: an elemental musical…

Razorcuts – ‘The World Keeps Turning’ & ‘Storyteller’ Re-Issues - October 2018 October 30th, 2018

Stew wrote sleevenotes for the reissues of these two albums by the 80s band Razorcuts Buy The World Keeps Turning from here and buy Storyteller from here.

Galaxie 500 – Today - October 2018 October 30th, 2018

Stew wrote the sleeve notes for the 2010 reissue of Galaxie 500’s debut album, Today. LINK: Galaxie 500’s Myspace

Trees – On The Shore - October 2018 October 30th, 2018

Stew wrote sleeve notes for this reissue of the classic folk rock album On The Shore by Trees trees to read them.

The Go Betweens – Send Me A Lullaby - October 2018 October 30th, 2018

Stew wrote the sleeve notes, and helped source material for, this reissue of The GoBetweens’ first album Click here for a 1999 Sunday Times article.

A Past Gone Mad: The Best of The Fall 1990-2000 - October 2018 October 30th, 2018

Stew compiled and annotated this compilation by The Fall. …this is a fine collection; brave, broad and admirably biased… It is, of course, an appalling concept. Allowing writer/ comedian Stewart Lee to compile a selection of his favourite, latter-day Fall tracks smacks of misguided marketing;an ill-informed attempt to glean the collegiate vote for what surely…