THE ALBUM cover is a spoof of various communist propaganda posters. There, centre stage, stands Weird Al Yankovic, a man of average height and long curly hair that plays pop parodies on an accordion. Also he’s...
SOMETIMES, great art comes at a price. For Billy Corgan, James Iha, D’Arcy Wretzky and Jimmy Chamberlain, AKA The Smashing Pumpkins, that price was the near disintegration of the band. Their debut album, Gish, had been...
GO BACK to 2009 and you’d be hard pressed to find a person who didn’t know the songs ‘In for the Kill’ or ‘Bulletproof’. Ah, 2009; the year Elly Jackson and Ben Langmaid ruled. The...
THE ANTICIPATION that rose like a tsunami when the Libertines announced the Hyde Park gig crashed in a sea of likely lads and lasses on a night where little else went right. Pete, Carl, John...
AS WE ENTER July, we begin to reminisce about 2014, and what has come to pass in the first half of the year. Daft Punk stormed this year’s Grammy Awards, Kate Bush announced her...
POST-GARAGE-ROCK Gods The Libertines announced more reunion tour dates last week via their Facebook, playing Alexandra Palace in London. The band have now revealed which lucky acts will be joining them as support. The...
WHEN an artist puts an album out, it is, of course, accompanied by album art. This art can be beautiful, it can be comical and is more than often reflective of the music you are...
MASTODON is a band that’s worked hard and earned their respect through touring hard for nearly fifteen years and repeatedly writing phenomenal records that are bursting with character. They’ve pioneered a multi-layered sound of equal...
ABOUT three years ago, I read an article in Q Magazine regarding festival headliners. The article complained that there were four primary acts that dominated the big UK festivals, and that newer acts weren’t...
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