WOW, WHAT an eventful three months we’ve had. WHAM! Prince died. BAM! The UK left the EU. THANK YOU MA’AM! A load of great albums were released. In fact it’s been incredibly difficult to...
TO CALL Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 2011 release, I’m With You, mind blowing would be a lie. Sure, there were a few decent tracks, but on the whole, the album merely reinforced the point...
NOSTALGIA IS NOT an excuse for complacency. These seven words should be branded across the front of every recording studio as a reminder to any band making an album after an extended break. It’s...
THIS week, a landmark album turns 30. Yes, The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead set the benchmark for all Indie rock, propelling the band into such fame the NME would write at least one...
FLEET Foxes’ eponymous debut album is a game changer for sure. Certainly, folk rock took a good, hard look at itself after Robin Pecknold’s merry band of musicians came out with this gem, an...
PET SOUNDS has, and always has had, the power to make me weep like a child. There’s a reason that Brian Wilson and his troupe’s masterpiece tops innumerable Best Album Ever lists; it’s just that...
WHEN I FIRST listened to The National, way back in 2011, I dismissed them as being, drab, boring and slow. Oh what a young sceptic I was. Revisiting High Violet around three and a...
NOTHING IS EVER going to be Pinkerton again and maybe that’s a good thing. It has to be around twenty years since Weezer released what is still regarded as their best album, but the...
IF AT FOLSOM Prison isn’t one of the best live albums of all time, it’s certainly one of the most important. The songs, the banter, The atmosphere, it has everything. It’s the album that...
WITH ANOTHER cruel sweep of its hand, 2016 has taken away another star. Prince Rogers Nelson was an innovator when it came to funk, soul and R&B music, being cited as an inspiration by...
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