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Paul Collins: Out Of My Head
by Doug Collette
There may not be anyone on the planet more loyal to rock and roll than Paul Collins. From his days in the Nerves (with Americana master Peter Case) to fronting his namesake band the Beat, this icon of so-called power pop has always evinced an abiding faith in his own music (even in solo digressions from his niche). On his latest expression of commitment, this songwriter and musician conjures a world unto himself. In And Out of My ...
read morePaul Collins' Beat: Long Time Gone/To Beat Or Not To Beat
by Doug Collette
The snapshot quality in the b&w cover photo of Long Time Gone/To Beat Or Not To Beat by Paul Collins' Beat is hardly a visual corollary to the immediacy of the music. Nor does it correspond to the clarity in the prose the bandleader composed for the CD combining these two EP's recorded in the early to mid-eighties; in fact, the visceral impact of his writing on both fronts is comparable to the passion Collins displays in leading his his ...
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