Welcome Pack: Simmer
There have been a few e-mails lately from acts professing an admiration for Fugazi. Now, that’s all well and good but it does rather set the bar at a level where a [...]
Features
My Kind of Town: Lily & Madeleine
With their sophisticated new album Keep It Together in the wings, sister act Lily and Madeleine seem to be flourishing in the midst of change. A new label – New West, [...]
Chapter & Verse: Graeme Thomson
Few figures loom as large over the history of Irish music as Phil Lynott. As the iconic frontman of Thin Lizzy, he helped redraw the definition of the rock star yet [...]
Welcome Pack: meet Boat To Row
When we saw Birmingham’s Boat To Row at least year’s Carefully Planned Festival in Manchester, we were moved to label them as ‘surprise of the day’, [...]
Dream On: John Reed on shoegaze
Cherry Red’s new 5CD collection, Still In A Dream: A Story Of Shoegaze 1988-1995, serves both as a fine introduction to the genre but also as a record of how quickly a [...]
Watch That Man: 10 essential David Bowie bootlegs
David Bowie may have kept a low profile in recent years, but you can’t disguise the fact that the dude paid his dues on stage, seeing the form as an integral part of [...]
Never Ever Gonna Get Old: on the passing of pop stars
There’s an underlying mathematical truth to human life. At age 20 you most likely have your whole life to live over three more times. By 30 you’re down to roughly [...]
David Bowie: an appreciation
“It ain’t easy to get to heaven when you’re going down” A life of surprises – and an exit to match. No more David Bowie: as cruel a rug-pull [...]
This Punk House Is Not A Home: Daniel Makagon interviewed
At a time when many smaller, independent UK music venues are closing, either for financial or gentrification reasons, Daniel Makagon’s new book, Underground: the [...]
No Passouts: Bill Hicks – 1992
So. Son. Tell me. What have you done with your life? Huh? Lemme hear it. What have you done? No – don’t tell me. I can guess. What is it? Something selfless – [...]
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