2015 in Music: Staff Picks
Were there stupider things to attempt in 2015 than launch yet another music-focussed website? Maybes. Nevertheless, here we are. It’s been a bit of a wheeze so far. [...]
Features
Critical Mass: Best Music Writing 2015
When we started Words & Guitars it was always our intention to spend a little bit of time talking around music criticism, books about music, and the crossover [...]
Blank reGeneration: David Blanco interviewed
Central London is a cultural dead-zone. Sure, corporate venues buy in the best spectacles money can acquire and well-heeled audiences attend quotable concerts at high prices [...]
Chapter & Verse: The Leaf Library
In the second edition of Chapter & Verse, we turn to The Leaf Library and their measured, pastoral vision of indie that soothes and provokes equally; the gentle [...]
If It Makes You Feel Good: 10 Stock Aitken Waterman Classics
Was it the inescapability of the ‘Rickrolling’ phenomenon that allowed us to get past the imagined guilty pleasures phase and just accept that, whatever their [...]
Critical Mass: Adele’s 25
The relatively low-key – compared to some – arrival of Adele‘s 25 on 20th November, shone a bright light on a few of the challenges faced by modern music [...]
Chapter & Verse: Desperate Journalist
As the man with the quiff once sang, “There’s more to life than books, y’know? But not much more.” While we wouldn’t go quite so far (crisp [...]
Le Bataclan: rock music’s Black Friday
As Nick Soulsby noted on these pages recently, going to a rock concert is not without its attendant risks. Put large numbers of people in a space, throw in testosterone, [...]
Tape Me: Re-Considering Kurt Cobain’s Montage of Heck
Much commentary so far on the newly released Kurt Cobain – Montage of Heck: the Home Recordings soundtrack has been an example of how, over time, idolized figures in [...]
My Kind Of Town: Tuff Love on Glasgow
After False Advertising gave us the low-down on all the cool spots in Manchester, we hopped on the train and headed north to Glasgow to speak to Tuff Love‘s Suse Bear [...]
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