Ha lf a century on from their commercial peak, there’s a sense that Sweet (definite article dispensed with way back when) are a band p...
Leon Bridges - "Leon" : Texan singer's 4th album
Following 2021’s future-facing R&B set Gold-Diggers Sound and recent years collaborations with Khruangbin that ventured into left-field...
Vanessa Collier - "Do it my own way": best blues album of the month
Mmm! This terrific new album by Vanessa could almost be described as a “one person band”. For certain this is an album of fine quality on e...
THE STORY OF A SONG: Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Four brittle chords. A clatter or» the drums, A foot on the overdrive pedal - and the grunge revolution was up and running. The components o...
Joel Lyssarides & Georgios Prokopiou - "Arcs & Rivers": you can call it folk jazz
The bouzouki appears in a number of different contexts: rebetika, laiko, Irish traditional music and various eastern-Mediterranean crossov...
THE STORY OF A SONG: "Wild Thing" by the Troggs
When The Troggs played their first gig - 60 years ago this year - at the Jockey Club in Andover, the audience were too drunk to register wha...
Sheer Mag: 70s noise rock brought today
Philadelphians who kept their powder dry for an imminent fusillade of 70s noise rock. Matt Palmer is reflecting on Sheer Mag’s early days of...
"Songs For A Nervous Planet": The Tears For Fears are here with 4 new and 14 old live songs
There were two Tears For Fears live albums before. But Secret World from Paris on 2005's Everybody Loves A Happy Ending tour was only ...
"Songs Of A Lost World" : The Cure are back
SOME ALBUMS NEED MORE TIME TO SURFACE. NOW, AFTER 16 YEARS, THE CURE ARE BACK TO BREAK YOUR HEART WITH AN AGE-APPROPRIATE MASTERPIECE THAT M...
Manfred Mann, a highly respected musician
During the UK beat boom of the early 60s, spearheaded by the Beatles, a number of R&B groups joined the tide with varying degrees of ach...
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