We’ve reached the tipping point in my exhaustive, and I hope definitive, guide to all of the great dame’s studio...
A poll of 700 people that was designed to launch the largest ever experiment into what makes music memorable organised...
So despite the fact that you are probably heartily tired of lists by now, we begin our run down of...
I moved to London in 1993. At the time my musical tastes had taken a turn for the worst and...
Neil Tennant was 60 yesterday, the possessor of a talent for giving voice to pop songs of exquisite quality, elegance...
As we reach the end of our month long celebration and purview of David Bowie, it’s time for the final...
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Lady Gaga, cultural pop provocateur, subverting tabloid culture from the inside as some 21st century femen Warhol, or talentless, crass,...
In the 1990s a picture of John Noakes (the children’s TV presenter of the 1970s) was used to sell vodka,...
In 1994 guitarist Bernard Butler left Suede in acrimonious circumstances, finding creative solace in the bosom of David Mcalmont...
Firstly the jazzy bridging segue from preceding track Optimistic into In Limbo proper. To the Elliptical arrangements that sound like...
The weather is turning, the leaves are turning brown and there’s the smell of Autumn in the air, so we...
“Manchester So much to answer for” Suffer Little Children, The Smiths Manchester is as steeped in heritage as the old...
On the (belated) occasion of Blur‘s relaunching as a working band, I’d like to examine the secret history of a...
“Libraries gave us power/Then work came and made us free/What price now for a shallow piece of dignity?!” Hollers James...
Album Covers are probably as subjective as the music on the records they house, but today I have one question for you....