Thanks to their admittedly preposterous haircuts, featured in some of the most cringeworthy publicity shots of the 1980s, Liverpool synthpop...
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Tony Wilson famously summed up the Factory Records ethos with the line “We made history, not money”. What money Factory...
When The Ramones covered Tom Waits‘ wonderful ‘I Don’t Wanna Grow Up‘ in 1995, it was one of those perfect...
Back in the early ’90s, when my obsessions with both American Music Club and Suede were at their peak, the...
“I was in a sort of ecstasy, absorbed in the contemplation of sublime beauty… I reached the point where one...
Over the last few years there have been albums made – or curated – to soundtrack pretty much every human...
If you call yourselves The Molochs and, two albums into your career, you still haven’t released a record called Never...
Joining Ken Loach and yours truly on the list of Greatest People to Have Been Born in Nuneaton, we welcome...
So Evan Dando turned out to be human after all. Despite the ridiculous good looks, the genius-level songwriting, the honeyed...
Compared to its Scandinavian neighbours, Finland’s impact on popular music has been minimal at best. Apart from Hanoi Rocks, Leningrad...
Aussie Balearicists Jagwar Ma’s 2013 debut Howlin’ was a flawless, dazzling set of Madchester-inspired indie-dance, throbbing acid house and groovy...
On the surface at least, and if you don’t look too closely, Singapore looks like the future. As I leave...
When the NME put Mick Head on their cover in 1999 and called him “THE BEST SONGWRITER IN BRITAIN!”, for...
Joyce Manor songs are like puppies. They come bounding out of the speakers, full of energy, desperate to love and...
“We started off making a traditional guitar album in 2011 but decided it was too good for our label”. Ouch....