100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #20 Joy Division – She’s Lost Control

Released: 1979 A suspicion attached to Joy Division’s first album Unknown Pleasures – usually over ridden by the shrill cries … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #41 Talking Heads – Psycho Killer

Released: 1977 Amongst the artists who emerged from the squalor of the Lower East Side’s ultimate dive bar CBGB in … More

The Lounge Society – Tired of Liberty review

The problem with being a next big thing is one of definition. A couple of decades ago it meant sitting … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #46 Magazine – Shot by Both Sides

Released : 1978 Many people have claimed to have attended one or both of the Sex Pistols’ gigs at Manchester’s … More

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 D.C. – 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