100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #49 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – Roadrunner

Released: 1976 Hard luck or hard talk, but at the time Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers went overground, very … More

Interpol – The Other Side of Make-Believe review

The world throws up unlikely paradoxes all the time, but Interpol making an uplifting lockdown album? The Interpol? Being well, … 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

TV Priest – My Other People review

TV Priest aren’t the first band to feel some disorientation at the pandemic fame process, which ran a little differently … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #69 The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry

Released : 1979 All publicity is good publicity, at least if you’re trying to sell a new band with no … More

Fontaines DC – Skinty Fia review

You couldn’t put a finger on when it happened, but how did we become so attached to place? Rather than … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #75 Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark – Electricity

Released : 1979 It’s nice to know that, even in 1979 when the earth wasn’t baking itself to a crisp … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #77 XTC – Making Plans For Nigel

Released : 1979 Talking about his experience whilst on tour to Pete Paphides in 2004, XTC singer, songwriter and willing/unwilling … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #90 Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead

Released : 1979 1979: two groups are working in completely separate environments a hundred miles away from each other (a … More

Silverbacks – Archive Material review

Around in one format or another since the middle of last decade, Dublin based quintet Silverbacks consist of brothers Daniel … More