by Michael Hubbard
Are Australians allowed to not only do country music but be good at it? It seems so, where Kasey Chambers is concerned. The songstress’s second…
by John Murphy
Edwyn Collins seems to have hung round the peripheries of pop success for nigh on twenty years now. Despite writing a bona fide Eighties classic...
by Rob Jackson
Ever since their early days, Idlewild have had a ferocious live reputation. Whether it be playing a couple of hundred people in a dingy club...
by Andrew Burgess
The road to release was thick with brambles and pitfalls for Wilco’s fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The band’s label, Reprise, condemned the record as...
by Michael Hubbard
Remember the single Ordinary World? It went top 5 in the UK in the autumn of 2000 and was the second single by Aurora. Earlier...
by Paul Woloszyn
The word legendary is often overused, but can be the only word to truly sum up one of the two surviving ex-Beatles. Reaching London on...
by John Murphy
You can say what you like about Damon Albarn, but nobody can accuse of him of being lazy. As well as the still ongoing concern...
by Michael Hubbard
Two ladies of unconventional appearance triumph over adversity and release their third album, Skirt, on their own label. Stuff of legend? Well, no. Despite being...
by John Power
First things first. Lorien are named after the forest in which dwell the elves in The Lord of the Rings. My original worry therefore had...
by Nick Dawson
As people walked into the Studio Theatre in theWarwick Arts Centre, Nick Drake‘s magnificent albumBryter Layter was playing over the PA system. Ifthere was ever...
by admin
If you’d asked me what electronic acts are like live before this gig, I would have sided with majority opinion and said, with one or...
by Michael Hubbard
Peaking with a chart-topping album in the latter part of Britpop’s heyday, The Bluetones were assured of success. Just as they topped the charts they...
by John Murphy
Film soundtracks are usually a rum old affair. Record companies long ago figured out that if they packed the soundtrack with old hits and cover...
by Nick Dawson
The cover of the new Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album has three images onit. One is a sketch of a fearful, wide-eyed woman, another a...
by admin
Remember how new electropop sounded when we first heard it? In the capable hands of Kraftwerk and Suicide a whole breed of keyboards and other...
by Robin Lee
“I think they’re still looking for the treasure in Manchester…” Belle and Sebastian, the fan-friendly Brit Award-winning not-so-superstars are in Edinburgh, playing the last of...
by Michael Hubbard
Trips down Memory Lane are not always pleasant experiences. But, as reminders of what went before, the record industry’s equivalent – the “best of” album...
