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Music festival season has returned to Nevada County in full force — from last weekend’s sold-out Strawberry Festival to next months World Fest, with others scheduled in between, but there is just one focused on…

Reviews: Icarus Peels Acid Reign, The Sweet, Kraut Rock, Fleur de Lys, 70s Classic Rock, Global Village Trucking Company, Duke Reid by Dave Thompson Shallow Oceans (CD/LP) (Billywitch Records) Mr Peel, of Honeypot and Crystal Jacqueline fame, has been absent from these pages for a while now - indeed, it’s more than two years since his Acid Reign alter-ego last strutted its raucous stuff. But Shallow Oceans makes up for lost time with one of the finest guitar rock albums of recent memory… a...

Cherry Red/Strike Force Entertainment Like David Bowie and maybe one or two others, it matters not how “huge” Marc Almond’s individual records are. In the eyes of his diehard fans, of whom there are many, he remains akin to an underground cult, beloved by a select few folk, and offered widespread approval only for the hits that he occasionally spills out. The Stars We Are, from 1988, is a case in point. Buoyed by what would become a monster smash duet with Gene Pitney, “Something’s Go...