by Helen Clarke
Ahead of Record Store Day 2013 on 20 April, musicOMH’s live editor Helen Clarke takes a look at some of the special appearances scheduled for…
by Helen Clarke
Record Store Day, which this year falls on 20 April, gets bigger and bigger every year. This year it seems like just about everyone’s getting...
by Laurence Green
Be you a clued-up music aficionado, suited and booted City trader, or just your average ‘5-CDs-a-year’ Joe, we imagine you’ll have heard quite a bit...
by Laurence Green
As far as ‘Ones to Watch’ lists go – MTV’s annual ‘Brand New’ line-up has good form. Previous years have seen them giving nods to...
by Tim Lee
A decade on, Interpol’s Turn On The Bright Lights is being re-released. Tim Lee feels old, then gets all misty eyed and remembers why he...
by John Murphy
Closure. It’s one of those very American words that’s snuck into the English lexicon of late. We all need closure, otherwise we’re doomed to hark...
by Geoff Cowart
Call it a baby sonic boom. For the hordes of Blur megafans taking delivery this week of the mammoth retrospective 21 box set, it will...
by Tim Lee
One For Keeps is a features series in which musicOMH writers wax lyrical on albums they’d just not be able to cope without. Tim Lee’s...
by Ben Hogwood
There is a sense that Van Dyke Parks is only now getting full recognition for his contribution to pop music as a solo artist. As...
by Mic Wright
We live in a world where far too many bands burble on about their love of Krautrock. The number of Oasis albums and Kasabian songs...
by Darren Lee
A quarter of a century ago the world was still in thrall with a new medium that was going to revolutionise music, improve fidelity, blast...
by Laurence Green
One For Keeps is a new features series in which musicOMH writers wax lyrical on albums they’d just not be able to cope without. Laurence...
by Mic Wright
One For Keeps is a new features series in which musicOMH writers wax lyrical on albums they’d just not be able to cope without. Kicking...
by John Murphy
Do you remember the first time? For a lot of admirers of the perennial misfits from Sheffield, it will have been Common People. Or going...
by Dan Marner
It opens with faint birdsong and the distant chugging of a train. Someone is running from something bad, running towards something that might be even...
by Andrew Burgess
2011 has seen its share of excellent 20th anniversary reissues from the shamelessly longhaired and scrappy early days of grunge and alternative rock. To name...
by Michael Hubbard
Like a significant proportion of the UK’s population, for the last few days and nights I’ve been all but glued to the rolling news networks,...
