Together the People is almost upon us again, 3rd – 4th September in Brighton’s Preston Park. This year’s...
Continuing to celebrate Virgin Records 40th anniversary, I delve into my own archives to bring you reviews and features on...
PREFACE On the eve of ‘Tago Mago’ 40th anniversary, Spoon, together with, Mute records release a re-mastered edition of...
As part of Virgin label’s 40th anniversary celebrations I take a special look back at the krautrock years, with purviews...
Live albums don’t really do much for me. Of course, there are a few examples of exceptional live albums Neil...
The Virgin label recently began celebrating its 40th anniversary under the auspicious banner of ‘40 years of disruptions’ (see fellow...
Yesterday it was announced that Jaki Liebezeit, the drummer and co-founder of pioneering German band Can, had passed away at...
GIITTV have kindly offered me a platform from which to share my pontifications, musings and observations. A humbled collaborator for...
In his recent psychoanalytical ‘Retromania’ tome, the very much admired and noted music writer/critic Simon Reynolds discusses our modern preoccupation...
For a band whose methodology of recording was built on endless weeks, days and hours of, mostly, unregulated jamming...
This year – along with numerous other half-century anniversaries- marks fifty years since the formation of the mighty Can. To...
Tying their pertinacious agit manifesto to the increasingly soulless and limp mast of electronic music, the experimental scion...
A melding of exploratory minds, the three-parts Teutonic to one-part Brit, Cyclopean collaboration already looks good on paper; pitting as...
As part of our month long Record Store Day jubilations and postulations, spirited electronic alchemist, teacher and producer Jono Podmore...
Replacing the faceless corporate stranglehold of the major record label system with an equally dominative digital cabal, the music industry...