Spotlights
by Graeme Marsh
Looking back, 1996 was not exactly one filled with happy, joyous events in Britain. IRA bombings sadly began again after a lengthy ceasefire and the…
by musicOMH
Almost a decade on since their self-titled debut album’s release, The Early Years are back to pick up where they left off with a new work called, simply,...
by Tim Lee
Close to the end of One More Time With Feeling, Nick Cave looks at us and says “I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing...
by Ben Hogwood
Twenty-five years is a long time in pop music. Not many bands stay the course for a quarter of a century – and Verve, as...
by musicOMH
The splendid Autoheart, comprising Jody Gadsden (voice), Simon Neilson (keys) and Barney JC (guitars), return after far too long away with their second album I...
by Graeme Marsh
It was a big year, 1982, and for Britain in particular. Two hundred and 55 military personnel would lose their lives during the Falklands War...
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...
by Bekki Bemrose
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...
by Alex Jeffery
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...
by musicOMH
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...
by Alex Jeffery
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...
by Chris White
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...
by musicOMH
Part of Kraftwerk during their most commercially successful period, Eloquence sums up what he did next…
by Graeme Marsh
The story of how his seminal album came to be, as it gets the Expanded Edition treatment.
by Alex Jeffery
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....
by Max Raymond
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...
by Daniel Paton
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...
by Andy Baber
Two decades since its release, just how well has Radiohead’s The Bends aged?
by Ben Hogwood
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...
by John Murphy
Looking back at the two-time Mercury nominee’s first three solo albums
by John Murphy
The sometime Dresden Dolls star’s book provides us with an opportunity to think again about an often misunderstood artist.
