Poly Styrene New Book, Exhibition And Film
Following last year’s 40th anniversary of the seminal X-Ray Spex album Germfree Adolescents, we have an update about their iconic front woman, Poly Styrene which includes a wonderful new book, exhibition and even further news regarding the film I Am A Cliché. Singer...
J.J.Cale To Stay Around With Posthumous Album.
You may not have heard of J.J. Cale as he deliberately avoided the limelight, he spent his career as an “under-the-radar-giant” (New York Times). However he influenced musicians as wide-ranging as Neil Young (who wrote in his autobiography, “J. J.’s guitar playing is...
Albums Of The Year 2018
Kacey Musgraves has gone from the rebel of Nashville to its rising star to its Country Queen in just three records, quite an accomplishment for the 30-year-old. And third record Golden Hour isn’t more of the same from Musgraves its predecessor Pageant Material was...
Meet The Palestinian Artists Breaking Borders Through Music
Palestine Underground by Boiler Room documents the resilience of a burgeoning music scene undeterred and fuelled by political restrictions, building bridges through a shared sound and identity. The 25 minute documentary by Boiler Room documents the thriving...
Iconic Artist Images Exhibition By Norman Seeff At Proud Galleries, London
Running from 23rd November until 13th January 2019 Proud Galleries have another brilliant exhibition entitled Sessions In Sound: Photographs By Norman Seeff, an intimate collection of Seeff’s acclaimed photographic sessions featuring influential 20th Century musical...
Iridesce Don’t Look Back On Rise (Curtain Call)
By looking back, Iridesce have found a new beginning. While working on a new acoustic version of their single Rise, premiering on RockShot Mag today, the London-based alternative-rock band were reminded of what really matters: the songs themselves....
The Cranberries, Everybody Else Is Doing It, Why Cant We?
There are too many life defining albums to choose from, I could be here all week. For National Album Day I have chosen to share on The Cranberries, Everybody Else Is Doing It, Why Cant We? (1993) and the 1993 version, not the remastered one that came later with...
National Album Day: Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins
Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins; the album that gave me the power to get through my teenage chaos years and forever find other ‘Pumpkin heads’ in life, making life long friends out of them. Back from the times when you actually listened to an entire album, from...
National Album Day: Bad by Michael Jackson
Bad was the very first album that I have a conscious memory of wanting to absorb in its entirety in the way that seems trivial these days; pouring over the fold out album booklet from my father’s cassette tape and consuming the videos on television over and over...
National Album Day: Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morrisette
An influential album that means so much to me, even after twenty-three years, is Alanis Morrisette’s Jagged Little Pill. Morrisette’s trailblazing third studio album, and international debut, spoke to me. It was angry, urgent and directive, supplying a poetic...
National Album Day: Live Through This by Hole Chosen By Baby Teeth
For National Album Day we’ve chosen Live Through This by Hole. Maybe an obvious choice, but we’d rather be honest than cool. Iconic female rock stars were (and still are) sadly under represented in music. Courtney Love is the embodiment of a rock star, yet fiercely...
National Album Day: Solid Air by John Martin
Solid Air is an album that had me hooked from the opening few seconds on first listen. For me, John Martyn is (was) one of the finest songwriters out there. The way he captures raw emotion is staggering and songs like May You Never, Over The Hill and the title track...
National Album Day: Achtung Baby by U2
Yes, The Joshua Tree has the bigger hits, but U2's seventh studio album is a far more interesting prospect. Dark, tortured, experimental, it's the sound of a band who were trying to find their way, just a few years after Time magazine had called them "Rock's hottest...
National Album Day: Moving Pictures by Rush
In 1987, I was nineteen years old (please don’t work it out). On a warm summer’s night and after an extremely alcoholic trip out, my friend Stuart James put on Moving Pictures by Rush. I didn’t know what it was and I’d not really heard much Rush to that point. I had...
National Album Day: Low Slung Town by Beef
I have never met another person who owns this album, which is a terrible shame because it is one of the few albums from 1990 I still play from start to finish without cherry picking tracks. Beef, (not to be confused with a different band with the same name who started...
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