“May the angels bright watch you tonightAnd keep you while you sleep”– Lullaby of London The world has lost one...
I was listening to All Hail West Texas by The Mountain Goats the other day when my eyes came to rest...
After a handful of excellent singles, Shura’s 2016 debut Nothing’s Real arrived and was one of the year’s strongest and...
I must be getting old. Despite going to 45 gigs and five festivals in this calendar year and probably seeing...
Manon Williams picks out six music books to read during this lockdown period. Johnny Marr, ‘Set the Boy Free: The...
By the beginning of 1996, Kylie Minogue has split from Stock, Aitken and Waterman, released her eponymous LP in 1994,...
We’re in the final countdown. This week the UK will make a big decision on its EU membership: in or...
2016 is another year where the imprint of the 80s looms largely over pop music, The 1975, Ladyhawke, Niki &...
1. Bob Dylan – Murder Most Foul Back in March, and after several years of paying due respect to the...
Twenty five years ago, R.E.M. released their most underrated album. New Adventures In Hi-Fi came out in what was a slightly transitional...
SHLUG are a punk trio based in Cardiff, describing themselves as ‘three peas in a pod that are constantly exploding’....
For our final trawl through the R.E.M. back catalogue Bill Cummings is joined by R.E.M. fan and writer Nathan O’Hagan...
The 21-year old Norwegian Sigrid (Solbakk Raabe) was announced on Friday as the winner of the BBC’s Sound of 2018...
The UK’s live music industry remains in a parlous state. Decimated by the initial impact of the coronavirus and the...
I first found TYS in the late 80s, from an article published in the NME of the day and later...