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The Charlatans' Tim Burgess is organizing online interactive listening parties of classic UK Britpop, shoegaze and alternative albums, via Twitter, all hosted by members of the bands.

This week: reviews of new records by Whitney, Parsnip, and The Vacant Lots, plus Catherine Wheel's ’Adam & Eve’ gets a vinyl reissue, and '90s Britpop act Salad release their first album in 22 years.

Though he's best known as frontman for the fabulously sweatered early '80s pop band Haircut One Hundred, Nick Heyward went on to an acclaimed solo career, including 1993's excellent and underrated From Monday to Sunday, and 1998's The Apple Bed (which came out on Creation Records…