pop music
Album: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return of the Dream CanteenSaturday, 15 October 2022
Does the world need to hear more from Red Hot Chili Peppers? Outside the bouncin’ bro’ fanbase, a regular consensus is that, despite being one of the biggest bands in the world, doing their global stadium rock thing – with free added funk! –... Read more... |
Album: The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign LanguageThursday, 13 October 2022
The 1975 are always looking for a way to corral Matty Healy’s ambition, to bring focus to his scattershot mind, to perhaps after all manage a generational address commensurate with his half-serious dreams of what a band can still be.It was telling... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: Trip On Me - Soft Psych & SunshineSunday, 09 October 2022
The Candy Company. Evergreen Tangerine. The Lollipop Fantasy. The Pretty People. The Primrose Circus. “It's a Groovy World.” “Meadows and Flowers.” “Summer Flower (She's on my Mind).”The band names and song titles don’t telegraph heaviness. The 24-... Read more... |
Album: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It DownWednesday, 28 September 2022
It’s a minor tragedy that Yeah Yeah Yeahs arrived just in time to be bundled in with a spurious “new rock revolution,” because they were so much more than rock. The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Libertines all may have had decent enough songs, but... Read more... |
The Big Moon, Oran Mor, Glasgow review - partying prevails despite band's bad luckMonday, 26 September 2022
Presumably before setting out on their current tour the Big Moon smashed a few mirrors, walked under some ladders and crossed the paths of numerous black cats. Not only is this jaunt over two years in the making, endlessly postponed for the usual... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Art / Empire / Industry - The Complete Red NoiseSunday, 25 September 2022
The British music weeklies were clear about where the Sound-On-Sound LP and its singles fitted into the current musical topography when they were issued in 1979. Comparisons offered up included Magazine, Talking Heads and XTC. And, more curiously,... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: The Best of Roxy MusicSunday, 18 September 2022
In summer 2001, The Best of Roxy Music reached number 12 on the album charts. The 18-track compilation tied-in with the band’s reunion tour, which kicked off that June. Original band members Bryan Ferry, Andy MacKay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson... Read more... |
Album: Blackpink - Born PinkSaturday, 17 September 2022
This album – and its already multi-100 million stream single “Pink Venom” – starts off with a twang of Korean traditional instruments, a background chant of “blaaaackpink”, a monumentally crunching hip hop beat and – OH DEAR GOD ARE THEY DOING... Read more... |
Album: Marcus Mumford - (Self-Titled)Friday, 16 September 2022
“I can still taste you and I hate it/That wasn’t a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it/You took the first slice of me and you ate it raw/Ripped at it with your teeth and your lips like a cannibal/You fucking animal.” The opening lines... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: The Sons of Adam - Saturday's Sons: The Complete Recordings 1964-1966Sunday, 11 September 2022
“We played the Rolling Stones concert at Long Beach Arena. The Stones came on, and it was the first time that any band had ever done better than us. I was very angry about that.” Randy Holden was The Sons of Adam’s guitarist. He was pretty... Read more... |
Album: Two Door Cinema Club - Keep On SmilingWednesday, 31 August 2022
Three and a half years on from 2019’s False Alarm, Keep On Smiling comes album number five from Northern Ireland trio, Two Door Cinema Club. Known for having more bounce to the ounce than your average band, their brand of guitar-flecked electro pop... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: The Swinging Blue Jeans - Feelin’ Better Anthology 1963-1969Sunday, 28 August 2022
In late August 1962, Liverpool’s Swinging Blue Genes were booked to play Hamburg’s Star-Club for the first time. At the opening show of their season, they were booed and the curtain was pulled across them. The audience took against their mix of... Read more... |
