Released : 1989 Italo-House’s finest hour might’ve been Ride On Time, but it’s apex was Sueño Latino, a feature length…
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #86 Icehouse – Hey Little Girl
Released : 1982 Iva Davies – the creative fulcrum of Icehouse, one of Australia’s most successful bands of the pre-Hutchence…
Nada Surf – Never Not Together review
Music career veteranhood – for this is surely where Nada Surf find themselves now after more than 20 years –…
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #87 Visage – Fade To Grey
Released : 1980 Less (in)famous than it’s counterpart in Manchester of the same year, the Sex Pistols gig in Caerphilly…
Bambara – Stray review
Ghosts have always been used as inspiration for songwriters, from Johnny Remember Me to Stan Ridgway’s Camouflage and well beyond.…
February’s Best Albums
Album of the month: Stray by Bambara (Read the review here) Also great: Tame Impala – Slow Rush Read the…
February’s Best New Music
The month’s finest tunes from Seafret, Isobell Campbell, Soccer Mommy, Tame Impala, Bambara, Son Little, and The Orielles
100 Greatest Songs of the ’80’s #79 Lil’ Louis – French Kiss
Released : 1989 Dancing has been part of the human mating ritual for thousands of years, so if strutting it…
Grimes – Miss Anthropocene review
So many artists who find fame end up missing what they never had, but Claire Boucher seems to be in…
100 Greatest Songs of the 1980’s #88 The Beat – Mirror In The Bathroom
Released : 1980 From Handsworth in Birmingham, The Beat seemed to embody the Two-tone movement’s spirit of racial harmony and…