Is Attack of the Grey Lantern a concept album? Certainly, Mansun’s gapless debut – which came out on the 17th...
With a superb debut album under their belts, and an astonishing live energy to their performances, it’s surprising that more...
February 1997: Attack of the Grey Lantern, the twistedly witty debut album by one of Britpop’s oddest (and final) bands,...
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The literate, ART-iculate British rockers, Manic Street Preachers and Mansun have flavoured music magnificently since the 90s. No surprise that...
This week: I pay tribute to the legendary Lou Reed, review the ‘Anticlockwise’ compilation from folk-punk stalwarts McDermott’s 2 Hours,...
The Anchoress – the moniker of Welsh-born singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Catherine A. Davies – has announced the release of her...
Surely there can’t be many bands from the 90s with their own fan conventions, especially one that split up over...
In the 1990s a picture of John Noakes (the children’s TV presenter of the 1970s) was used to sell vodka,...
This week: Christmas is here. As well as plenty of festive treats including the RW/FF Advent Calendar, there are some...
David Bowie has been voted the most influential man in popular music, beating Elvis on more than one occasion. His...
The Mansun Convention will take place next weekend (Saturday August 23rd 2014) in Chester and will celebrate the legacy of...
The first RW/FF column in three weeks takes a look at the brilliant debut albums from Temples and The Hosts, plus 90’s-era deluxe reissues from Cast and Gene,...
2014’s release schedule is promising some great musical treats from artists old and new, but the upcoming debut LP from...
This week: new albums from Metamono, Black Hearted Brother and She Makes War, as well as new tracks from Mogwai,...
If you hadn’t noticed. We’ve been trawling the 1990s for some of the unheralded and more heralded of the decade...
