Spotlights
by musicOMH
Rod Thomas is back with Choreography, Bright Light Bright Light‘s third album – this time featuring guest turns from Elton John, all of the Scissor…
There’s quite a few folk out there that think James Murphy’s got some front. How dare he reform a band with such a warm and...
Prodigious, prolific, paradoxical and perverse, it’s likely that no other artist in popular music history has produced the volume of self-penned and self-produced music that...
Aziza Brahim has forthright things to say about war, peace and humanity in the face of crisis and conflict. Born in a Sahrawi refugee camp...
In the hours and days since David Bowie‘s sad passing, an outpouring of obituaries and articles have arrived, rightly praising his song catalogue and celebrating...
Genius is a term that is applied all too liberally across many walks of life, yet in the case of David Bowie, who passed away...
Part of Kraftwerk during their most commercially successful period, Eloquence sums up what he did next…
The story of how his seminal album came to be, as it gets the Expanded Edition treatment.
Uniquely, Bond themes represent a music tradition spanning over 40 years with a very special continuity that transcends the vagaries of changing fashions and genres....
Khalid Joseph’s reputation as an emerging talent has grown steadily over the last few years, especially with a Special Jury Award for Short Film prize...
To describe Ornette Coleman, who has died at the age of 85, as a ‘giant of jazz’ is, at least in part, to misrepresent his...
Two decades since its release, just how well has Radiohead’s The Bends aged?
As a highly regarded artist and one of the most influential men in music right now, Brian Eno is ripe for the retrospective treatment. One...
Looking back at the two-time Mercury nominee’s first three solo albums
The sometime Dresden Dolls star’s book provides us with an opportunity to think again about an often misunderstood artist.
Nonclassical label boss Gabriel Prokofiev guides us through the label’s first decade and previews both celebratory events and a book
Much has been written about the general malaise afflicting the Left in these times and, in particular, its inability to gain ground as a progressive...
Some thoughts on what this year’s Mercury Prize judges might be wrapping their ears around.
If you are already a Cardiacs fan there is probably no point in reading a review about this album. You will already know that it...
The 30th Anniversary Edition of The The’s debut major label release.
Twenty years on from its initial release, a reappraisal of the Gallagher brothers’ debut album
