Released: 1969 The MC5’s guitarist Wayne Kramer summed up the challenge of putting lightning back in the bottle when talking…
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #56 The Yardbirds – For Your Love
Released: 1965 Like magnets all pointing at each other, The Yardbirds played host to arguably three of the twentieth century’s…
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (15th Anniversary Edition) review
History always lies to you. Whenever something that seemed like it was the best of times comes back as a…
100 Greatest Song of the 60’s #57 Scott Walker – Jackie
Released: 1967 Scott Walker is another artist with a story too rich for the confines of the few hundred words…
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #58 The Animals – The House of the Rising Sun
Released: 1964 There’s something quite different between the American producer-svengali and his British counterpart: compare and contrast for instance the…
Cigarettes After Sex – X’s review
Many many years ago that so-noughties platform Facebook used to have a thing where you could set your relationship status;…
Washed Out – Notes From A Quiet Life review
For Ernest Greene – AKA Washed Out – the titular reference to a gentler existence was sincere; having moved from…
Joe Goddard – Harmonics review
You get by with a little help from your friends is almost the title of an old song, but on…
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #59 – Pete Rodriguez – I Like It Like That
Releasd: 1967 Tastemakers didn’t always come with a thousand heavily filtered headshots and sponsorship; in the past they went by…
100 Greatest songs of the 60’s #60 Sam & Dave – Hold On (I’m Comin’)
Released: 1966 Formulas. Recipes. Teams. All of these when making music are as important as you want them to be,…
The Voice Of Unreason 