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GAME REVIEW: Music Night Board Game 1
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GAME REVIEW: Music Night Board Game

November 13, 2019 Michael Barron 0

XS Noize has shown that there is so much more to music than live music and physical music releases. We have introduced to graphic novels and card games, and now we proudly review our first […]

BOOK REVIEW: The Song of the Machine By David Blot and Mathias Cousin
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BOOK REVIEW: The Song of the Machine By David Blot and Mathias Cousin

November 5, 2019 Michael Barron 0

The history and development of The Song of the Machine is almost as fascinating as the book itself. Mathias Cousin thought of the idea of producing a graphic novel back in 1995 before there were […]

BOOK REVIEW: The Golden Sheep (part one) By Kaori Ozaki
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BOOK REVIEW: The Golden Sheep (part one) By Kaori Ozaki

October 20, 2019 Michael Barron 0

The manga graphic novel is nothing new, it originated in Japan many decades ago. Unfortunately few manga graphic novels (especially not music related manga novels) get translated into English so an audience outside Japan can’t […]

BOOK REVIEW: Heavy Vinyl: RIOT ON THE RADIO  By Usdin, Vakueva, Flores and Nalty
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BOOK REVIEW: Heavy Vinyl: RIOT ON THE RADIO By Usdin, Vakueva, Flores and Nalty

September 24, 2019 Michael Barron 0

Whether one is a fan of Charli XCX and Troye Sivan’s hit “1999” earlier this year or not; it inevitably must have roused nostalgia amongst music fans of a certain age. Heavy Vinyl goes back […]

REVIEW: David Bowie - Trump Card Game 1
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REVIEW: David Bowie – Trump Card Game

September 24, 2019 Michael Barron 0

Whilst digital and streaming consumption of music itself is increasingly outmanoeuvring physical music sales; XS Noize has shown that the demand for music-related products from graphic novels to card games is increasing. XS Noize has […]

BOOK REVIEW: Theft! A History of Music By James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins & Keith Aoki
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BOOK REVIEW: Theft! A History of Music By James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins & Keith Aoki

September 5, 2019 Michael Barron 0

Whilst listening to music and discovering new artists and genres of music, along with the antics and personal lives of some musicians can be mesmerising, live changing, fun or just hilarious; studying the history of […]

Moonhead and the Music Machine  By Andrew Rae 1
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Moonhead and the Music Machine By Andrew Rae

August 22, 2019 Michael Barron 0

Everyone knows or has one; a scatterbrain who would literally lose their head if it weren’t screwed on to their body. The reader through “Moonhead and the Music Machine” gets as close to finding out […]

BOOK REVIEW: Biographic Hendrix By Liz Flavell 1
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BOOK REVIEW: Biographic Hendrix By Liz Flavell

August 6, 2019 Michael Barron 0

Ammonite Press has released a biographic series of books telling the stories of famous musicians using infographics. Infographics use icons to represent the subject matter. The idea is there is an instant recognition of “how […]

BOOK REVIEW: 50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World By Will Larnach-Jones
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BOOK REVIEW: 50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World By Will Larnach-Jones

July 30, 2019 Michael Barron 0

50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World takes fifty icons across one hundred years to demonstrate how those from the LGBT community and/or icons who endorsed and aided the LGBT community impacted the music […]

BOOK REVIEW: John Lennon and Jean Jullien - Imagine 1
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BOOK REVIEW: John Lennon and Jean Jullien – Imagine

June 11, 2019 Michael Barron 0

The 1971 hit “Imagine” is probably the most globally recognised solo hit by John Lennon following his career with The Beatles. Whilst Oasis used the hook/riff from “Imagine”, the message of peace and to desist […]

BOOK REVIEW: Basquiat By Julian Voloj and Søren Mosdal 1
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BOOK REVIEW: Basquiat By Julian Voloj and Søren Mosdal

May 31, 2019 Michael Barron 0

It is well known that Jean-Michel Basquiat aka SAMO was a renowned neo-expressionist artist who gifted the world with numerous “provocative” works defining the New York art scene of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. […]

BOOK REVIEW: The League of Extraordinary Gentleman Century: 1969 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill 2
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BOOK REVIEW: The League of Extraordinary Gentleman Century: 1969 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill

April 3, 2019 Michael Barron 0

Alan Moore’s Watchmen is recognized in Time’s List of the 100 Best Novels in the English language published since 1923. This achievement is especially significant since Watchmen was the only graphic novel included in this […]

BOOK REVIEW: How to Disappear Completely by Si Smith 2
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BOOK REVIEW: How to Disappear Completely by Si Smith

March 22, 2019 Michael Barron 0

Can you guess the band who made the song How to Disappear Completely? If you know, do you know the album it comes from? The band is Radiohead. The song is taken from their fourth […]

BOOK REVIEW: Frank Turner - 'Try This At Home'
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BOOK REVIEW: Frank Turner – ‘Try This At Home’

March 18, 2019 Clair McAllister 2

‘Try This At Home’ is the second memoir in Frank Turner’s literary adventure, preceded by 2015’s ‘The Road Beneath My Feet’. And while the similarities amid the books are boundless, not least that the release […]

BOOK REVIEW: ELVIS - Philippe Chanoinat and Fabrice Le Hénaff 2
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BOOK REVIEW: ELVIS – Philippe Chanoinat and Fabrice Le Hénaff

March 14, 2019 Michael Barron 0

Forty-two years ago this year, “The King”, Elvis Presley died at just forty-two years old. Whilst his life was exceptionally short (to the point he left his father and his nine-year-old daughter Lisa Marie Presley […]

BOOK REVIEW: Swan Song By the Cloudscape Comics Society 1
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BOOK REVIEW: Swan Song By the Cloudscape Comics Society

March 3, 2019 Michael Barron 0

At XS Noize we have taken you on musical journeys one didn’t think was possible through books, particularly graphic novels. We have taken you on magical mystery tours via Yellow Submarine, explored the stories behind […]

BOOK REVIEW: Kiss: Greatest Hits, Volume 5
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BOOK REVIEW: Kiss: Greatest Hits, Volume 5

February 21, 2019 Michael Barron 0

Kiss has released five volumes of their greatest hits, not of music, but graphic novels. Kiss has appeared in comics and graphic novels for over forty years. Their first comic book appearance was in issue […]

BOOK REVIEW: Sci-Fu by Yehudi Mercado
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BOOK REVIEW: Sci-Fu by Yehudi Mercado

February 16, 2019 Michael Barron 0

What makes a Superstar DJ? Whatever you think makes a Superstar DJ, the star of Sci-Fu, DJ Wax definitely sets the standard to new high. When your hometown of Brooklyn is at stake if you […]

BOOK REVIEW: All Summer Long by Hope Larson 3
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BOOK REVIEW: All Summer Long by Hope Larson

January 29, 2019 Michael Barron 0

In All Summer Long, music and summer are the main themes, but neither Woodstock or Bryan Adams or “69” find a home here. The latter may well be omitted because this graphic novel is aimed […]

BOOK REVIEW: Love in Vain: Robert Johnson, 1911 – 1938  By Mezzo and J.M. Dupont 2
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BOOK REVIEW: Love in Vain: Robert Johnson, 1911 – 1938 By Mezzo and J.M. Dupont

January 24, 2019 Michael Barron 0

Described as “the most famous bluesman of all time”, Robert Johnson was not only the first and founding member of the “27 club” (where other famous musicians including but not limited to Kurt Cobain, Amy […]

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