Let’s Go Round Again – 2022’s Best Reissues

Albums are served back up to a weary public these days on the flimsiest of premises, but here’s some which … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #7 Blondie Hanging on the Telephone/Heart of Glass

Released: 1978 & 1979 Sometimes impossible decisions can only be resolved by compromise. Attempting to capture the impact of Blondie’s … More

2022’s Best Albums

20. Meshuggah – Immutable 19. Wet Leg – Wet Leg Read about it here. 18. Galcher Lustwerk – 100% Galcher … More

Idles Brutalism – Por cinco años

Being honest, nobody had ever really heard of them, although Idles had been fermenting in Bristol one way or another … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #8 Fleetwood Mac – The Chain

Released: 1977 Any Fleetwod Mac fan should be able to give you the back story to Rumours, the band’s most … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #9 Kraftwerk – Autobahn

Released: 1975 Was it any suprise that the seeds of ultra-modernism came from Europe? A region which had undergone a … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #10 Gary Numan – Cars

Released: 1979 Up until late 1979 synthesizers had remained firmly inside the domain of the serious professional musician. As Tubeway … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #11 Nick Drake – Hazy Jane I

Released: 1971 One of the most surprising aspects of Nick Drake’s lasting posthumous success is that there is so little … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #12 The Specials – Gangsters

Released: 1979 The main strength of punk’s radicalism was that it didn’t begin and end in punk itself, which had … More

The Cure – Live at Leeds Arena review

8.15, Tuesday night. A suitably chill wind is blowing outside Leeds’ First Direct Arena as the crowds gather for a … More