I Wanna Be A Teen Again – American Power Pop 1980-1989: Review

Imagine you wanted to know everything about anything and that desire came in aural form. Then imagine that this thing … More

Gary Numan – BBC Radio Sessions (John Peel 1979) review

In some ways you’d have considered Gary Numan mad. Plenty more would’ve concurred when the singer attempted to fly solo … More

Rough Trade Records – RT 45s Boxset Review

Very recently a debut record from a bunch of Chicagoan Generation…wait, what is the latest “Generation”? – anyway – three … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #17 Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out

Released: 2004 Music has a love/hate relationship with it’s own universal weakness for derivation; the chances are you’ve heard this … More

A Flock of Seagulls – Live in Leeds review

Queuing behind us for the bar at the Brudenell Social Club are a boy and a girl, the latter of … 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

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 #53 Squeeze – Take Me, I’m Yours

Released: 1978 One of music’s defining qualities as an art form is it’s subjectivity; such is it prone to influence … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #55 The Police – Walking On the Moon

Released: 1979 Whilst you could spend hours debating what was punk and what was not, The Police were definitely not … More

Wire – Not About To Die review

The idea of the bootleg is one lost to the mid-late 20th century, so quickly for context it was the … More