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The pandemic has made the world a quieter place. Jennifer Wallis misses the noise, and writes here about silence and the struggle to fill it.
Jennifer Wallis explores the history of children’s records, and childhood encounters with a sinister talking piano.
Sweet and subversion – the combative cuteness of 90s pop duo Shampoo.
The posthumous release of a concert album in 1977 brought a resurgence of interest in the Beatles. But what happened to the ad that accompanied it?
Two British proto metal bands are resurrected by Rise Above Records, Barnabus and Cycle. Joe Scott Wilson is thankful.
David Kerekes bids a fond farewell to Neil Innes, the impish figure behind some well-known acts, including Monty Python, the Rutles, and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
While everyone knows of ‘Charles Manson’ few have actually listened to his recordings. Music is the glue that sticks Manson to his friends, his fellow travellers, his ‘Family’, his enemies. In this essay, Mark Goodall reflects on Manson in context of his music. This in anticipation of Quentin Tarantino’s Manson movie and Jordan Peele’s Us.
How long is long in the music business? Stephen Lee Naish looks at a future Manic Street Preachers.
‘I want to present a kind of alternative universe version of the record’. Stephen Lee Naish talks Manic Street Peachers.
Glastonbury 99 was missing a spark. Stephen Lee Naish muses on the Manic Street Preachers
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
