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Spend Time with Fast Money Music Having made it to The Shacklewell Arms in Hackney in good time for the gig, I was glad of the opportunity to have a brief chat with Nick Hinman , the driving force of Fast Money Music .  It is Hinman’s catalogue of songs which have just been released on the album  Fast Money Music, but he has got a powerful band together to put the meat on the rock and roll skeletons of his lyrics, featuring "gratuitous saxaphone" balanced by really clean, sharp guitar playing laid over some stonking rock.  Fast Money Music getting set up at The Shacklewell Arms, London E8   A gentle-natured man, Hinman strikes me as the sort of songwriter, singer, frontman who needs the occasional gentle reminder that he has written some great tunes and can put on a rocking show.  Only he and his nearest and dearest will know whether I am in the right about this.  Never mind, how he gets to the stage and the studio is his challenge, but I am...

Fast Money Music goes Round and Round Nevermind: The latest single from Fast Money Music's Debut LP   When you punch  Fast Money Music  into your music streaming app, the NYC electro-punks  Suicide   pops up. I love their work, a band who were truly punk, who could spark a punch up in  CBGBs  within a couple of songs.    What they did with their instruments and their lyrics displayed an artistic courage that defined the punk attitude. Suicide were iconoclastic, innovative, left-field.    Not afraid to face off, shake up and incite radical thinking, even the duo name chosen by  Martin Rev  and  Alan Vega  was (and remains) a shocking piece of punk branding.   The song Fast Money Music opens their second and final studio LP.  Electronic keyboard jitters, moving things  up a tech level from the jangling guitars heard in Velvet Underground 's I'm Waiting For My Man, Suicide laid down a track that is, ...

Dry January? New Musical Releases & Discoveries It is a tricky time of year. All that cosy time with close family, all the expense, all the food. Did you eat it all? Is it humanely possible to eat it all? The record store sale discounting music that some would have paid a higher price for just a few hours earlier. Well, at least daylight in the Northern Hemisphere is with us for a little longer, every minute counts.  As snow drops shimmer in the breeze and daffodil shoots appear, The Biz launches itself into the new year's calendar with a broad range of releases and tour announcements. I started the musical year by buying a fresh re-release from HMV of Nico 's second album, which was produced in collaboration with John Cale , still-living Welsh legend, once of The Velvet Underground .  The Nico album is without doubt, worth hearing.  Cale's musical education in Classical music is brought to bear on this collection of haunting songs, which has Nico's folksy, whimsica...