Brisbane-born Hatchie (real name Harriette Pilbeam) appeared a few years ago with a perfectly-realised sound. On last summer’s flawless Sugar...
Tony Wilson famously summed up the Factory Records ethos with the line “We made history, not money”. What money Factory...
“Are you looking forward to Brian Wilson later?” a friend of mine asked as we were sitting in the last...
Dates: 14th – 17th July 2016 Location: Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk Having celebrated its 10th anniversary last year in some considerable style,...
It’s an oft-repeated fact that New Orders’s ‘Blue Monday’ was the biggest selling 12 inch vinyl record of all time, and...
Destroyer has been the main vehicle for Dan Bejar’s output for over two decades. When he released Kaputt in 2011,...
From Kraftwerk to Daft Punk and beyond, throughout history pop has been endlessly fascinated with technology. Whether it’s recreating, inhabiting...
2016 is another year where the imprint of the 80s looms largely over pop music, The 1975, Ladyhawke, Niki &...
When Music Complete was announced earlier this year my initial thought was, “I hope it’s their Electric”. Electric, the last...
One of the things I hated about the pre-internet music industry was that everything was geared around the top...
It’s impossible to think of Future Islands without picturing their captivating performance on David Letterman’s show in 2014. The appearance...
40 years ago this month, The B-52’s formed in Athens, Georgia. There’s not many bands you could call unique...
Signs for the first New Order album, following their enforced transformation from Joy Division, were good, as they had already...
As the punk explosion of 1977 died down, and the filth and the fury became little more than a distant...
Lets’ be clear first of all, this is neither Joy Division or New Order, and doesn’t claim to be. So...