2021 was supposed to be the year of recovery, instead it threw up even more challenges and struggle, the pandemic...
It’s been another sterling year for new music, perhaps even one of the best of the decade, as evidenced by...
It’s been a while since I felt this overwhelmed about reviewing a record. Not because I don’t think it’s any...
When you’re approaching your forties, as I was in the late noughties, and your two favourite albums of all time...
There’s a lot of anger on this, the former Hold Steady man’s fourth album proper as a solo artist. Anger...
For the latest podcast, Bill Cummings and Jim Auton are joined by Mark Beaumont a writer for the NME since...
Yes, yes I am fully aware that my list looks as though Bill has invited one of Uncut’s writers to...
“I’m gonna say Florida” says Craig Finn, who’s probably a little surprised that I’ve started our interview with a general...
Craig Finn and his band, The Hold Steady, have pretty much soundtracked my life over the past decade, so when...
The belief in Rock & Roll is waning. It never struck me or my gig going partner that it might...
I’ve never met anyone who thinks The Hold Steady are just “ok”. People either simply don’t ‘get’ them or, like...
“He shaved his head at the airport / In a bar at the end of the concourse / He said...
Back in 2003 GIITTV was born, intended as a music and culture webzine aimed at celebrating music. Originally a basic...
After fifteen years in the music business, performing first with World/Inferno Society and Guignol, and then finding huge audiences with...
Hoxton’s bar and kitchen music venue is strewn with bottles. On every available surface, from chairs to the stage and...
