If only there’s only one truism to our existence on this rock, it’s that life often has a way of…
DIIV – Frog In Boiling Water review
Once the solo project of Zachary Cole Smith, DIIV’s 2012 album Oshin set the blogosphere (Remember that?) ablaze, but the…
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100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #68 Johnny Kidd and the Pirates – Shakin’ All Over
Released: 1960 Despite eventually selling it back over the Atlantic to spectacular success, Britain’s relationship with early rock n’ roll…
Beyond The Bassline – 500 Years of Black British Music review
It’s relatively easy to take a view on the influence and development of Black British music as directly beginning with…
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #69 13th Floor Elevators – You’re Gonna Miss Me
Released: 1966 Most of the time the myth and the hype never quite fulfill each other, a lack of payoff…
100 Best songs of the 60’s #70 Canned Heat – On The Road Again
Released: 1968 According to such luminaries as John Fahey and Pete Townshend, no other band than Canned Heat has done…
Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band – Loophole review
Not many a musician’s autobiographies come with its own soundtrack, but as the saying goes, Mick Head isn’t many musicians.…
Arab Strap – I’m Totally Fine With it…review
Aidan Moffatt feels like the guy you meet at a party who’s so intense in conversation that desperately the host…
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #71 The Easybeats – Friday On My Mind
Released: 1967 The sixties might’ve seen a British invasion and an American reprisal like some sort of tit-for-tat musical boxing…