Recorded in Nashville, and largely co-written with Steve McEwan (hitmaker for the likes of Keith Urban and Kenny Chesney), Golden...
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Buffalo Tom’s Indian summer has been one of the most wonderful musical surprises of the century so far, as a...
Whiplash noises, lyrics ostensibly about S&M, and a 12″ version entitled ‘Slavery Whip Mix‘: it’s little wonder my rather naive,...
As in January 2017, when I found myself utterly bewitched by the debut album from Jordan Ireland & Purple Orchestra,...
Anyone expecting a Noel Gallagher/David Holmes collaboration to be some radical, genre-bending departure from The Usual is in for a...
As the late, great Sean Hughes once observed, “Everyone grows out of their Morrissey phase…except Morrissey”. I suspect Hughes meant...
Young, sexy men making young, sexy music. Or at least that’s how it was the last time I saw Ride,...
It’s there, on the title track, that you can hear The Smiths reach a peak of brilliance that only a...
Of all the lesser-known musical genres to have crossed over to, or at least towards, the mainstream in recent years,...
Michael Head’s reputation as Britain’s greatest living songwriter rests on that stunning five-album run from 1995’s Waterpistol, through 1997’s The...
“The first time ‘You Spin Me Round’ was on Top of the Pops – that was just barbaric, it was...
This week of course my Facebook feed has been full of people eulogising the late Tom Petty (note: in ten...
They were always a bit different, were Blancmange. Whilst they followed the usual Bowie-punk-art school route of most of their...
When Dan Whitford sings “Watch me slowly fall apart” on Haiku From Zero‘s wonderful, twinkly opener ‘Standing in the Middle...
It’s often said that everyone who was at The Sex Pistols’ 1976 Manchester Free Trade Hall gig subsequently formed a...
