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Various ★ ★★★ 600% Dynamite! SOUL JAZZ. CD/DL/LP ...

After decades of feuding and fall outs, Chris and Rich Robinson, aka The Black Crowes , have found a groove of brotherly love and rock bravado.

Following Richey Edwards’ disappearance and the “commercial disaster” of The Holy Bible , the MANIC STREET PREACHERS were told that this is the end. Instead, they roared back with an unassailable anthem heralding one of the biggest British albums of the ’90s. Sam Richards celebrates 30 years of Everything Must Go : “It was the most spectacular feeling,” says Nicky Wire. “That period when you go over the top...”

The brothers Robinson recall the highs, lows and sibling spats of a 36-year recording career