Without being maudlin, death comes to us all. Regardless of it’s circumstances, when somebody meets their end the ripple effect … More
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Hi, my name is Andy & I live in Leeds, in northern England. I've been writing about music for more than ten years. My work outside of this blog is featured on Live4ever and Contact Music.
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #3 The Streets – Weak Become Heroes
Released: 2002 In the end, raving went the way of nearly all things which become culturally significant; the man stepped … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #4 Queens of The Stone Age – You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire
Released: 2002 Queens of The Stone Age and former Kyuss frontman Josh Homme had a pretty good fix on how … More
100 Greatest songs of the 00’s #5 Roots Manuva – Witness (I Hope)
Released: 2001 Anyone talking about respect from across the Atlantic for British rap can trace a line back to pioneers … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #6 Animal Collective – My Girls
Released: 2009 What is dream pop, if it can’t be about dreams? Most often the phrase is applied to music … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #7 The Avalanches – Since I Left You
Released: 2000 Almost thirty years after it’s supposed first time out on John Kongos’ 1971 track He’s Gonna Step on … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #8 Boards of Canada – Kid for Today
Released: 2000 At this point it all looked like it might be straightforward. Boards of Canada’s self-mythologising, frustratingly unavailable back … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #9 Gallows – In The Belly of a Shark
Released: 2007 You don’t have to be a music listener for too long realise that it’s the most cyclical art … More
Familiar Fun – 2023 Reissues and Compilations round up
Old is the new new, right? Well, maybe not. But with catalogue as it’s known remaining as a major source … More
The Redskins – These Furious Flames! Live! 1985-86 review
The Redskins were one of those bands for whom an exclamation mark always felt it made sense. Having only released … More
The Voice Of Unreason 