And So I Watch You From Afar – Megafauna review

Music and words have a profound, but complicated relationship; often the former matters more than the latter, although a great … More

Personal Trainer – Still Willing review

Personal Trainer are effectively Willem Smit and a rotating cast of others, a collective by any other name that first … More

Wilson Pickett – 100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #51 – In The Midnight Hour

Released: 1965 Whoever first coined the phrase “They could start an argument in an empty room” probably wasn’t talking about … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #52 Fleetwood Mac – Albatross

Released: 1968 Yes, Fleetwood Mac, but no, not that Fleetwood Mac. It’s without doubt that the band’s original, London-centric first … More

Blur – Live At Wembley Stadium review

Wembley can be your field of dreams, or a crucible of disappointment; in the run up to Blur’s two landmark … More

Cults – To The Ghosts review

It’s more than a little niche over thirty years on, but the Twin Peaks spinoff movie Fire, Walk With Me … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #53 Jefferson Starship – White Rabbit

Released: 1967 Grace Slick has always been one of the most quotable musicians. 1967 and all that? She told The … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #54 The Spencer Davis Group – Gimme Some Loving

Released: 1966 Time can change opinions and often does, but even at the time the gossip was that The Spencer … More

Robin Guthrie – Atlas EP review

It’s a fractious world, and given that a Cocteau Twins reunion is only marginally less likely than a Nirvana one, … More

Highly Suspect – As Above, So Below review

What used to be a fine line between derivation, parody and the real thing is so blurred now that it … More