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...
National Album Day: Amused To Death by Roger Waters
I remember sifting through my father's album collection as a teenager and the cover of Roger Waters' Amused to Death immediately caught my attention. A decade ago, album covers had so much importance and careful attention was placed on providing listeners with a...
National Album Day: Let It Bleed by Rolling Stones
The one album that I could not live without is Let It Bleed by Rolling Stones. When I first became interested in music Glam Rock was at it's height. I was surrounded by Ballroom Blitz-es and New York Groove's. I was being urged to Bang A Gong and even try a Glass Of...
National Album Day: Nevermind by Nirvana
When someone asks me about my musical inspirations first to mind comes The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, AC/DC, Janis Joplin, and Nirvana to name just a few. But if anybody wants to know the album that changed my entire life and made me who I am now, that has to be...
National Album Day: Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan
Blood On The Tracks is an album for every season. I first heard it as a teenager and it seems as deeply intriguing, as powerfully emotional and as satisfyingly comforting to me today as it did back then. Hilarious and tragic, soothing and bitter, lonely and redeemed,...
National Album Day: Violent Femmes
I first caught wind of the Violent Femmes six years after the release of their debut album, at the tender age of 14. Followed in quick succession by Hallowed Ground and 3, the Violent Femmes’ self titled album speaks to a younger audience, with the consequent...
National Album Day: Choose Your Weapon by Hiatus Kaiyote
This album blew me away from the moment I pressed play. I’ve always appreciated quality musicians who make you feel every note, chord, phrase, drum beat or symbol-tap, alongside eccentric melodic lyrics all delivered with passion and emotion. For me this draws me into...
National Album Day: Last Of The True Believers by Nanci Griffith
Before, Texan, Nanci Griffith secured a lucrative album deal with MCA, she made four albums for the Philo record label, the best of which is The Last Of The True Believers. At the time it was lauded as one of the best ever country music albums and bought the worlds...
Darren Hayman Celebrates Thankful Villages
Released on 9 November, to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, Thankful Villages Volume 3 is the final installment of Darren Hayman’s epic study of rural British life. A Thankful Village is one where every soldier returned alive...
Video Premiere Of Adam Giles Levy’s The Ghosts
Adam Giles Levy gives us a taste of what’s to come with his new video-single, The Ghosts, which is taken from his upcoming EP, Peninsula. The new video features Adam and his band and was filmed on location outside Barcelona
Discover Black Belt Eagle Scout
Black Belt Eagle Scout (aka Portland-based Katherine Paul) is an indigenous queer musician whose debut album, Mother of My Children, is about "grief and love for people, but also about being a native person in what is the United States today.” Paul has already...
J R Harbidge Turns The Screw
British singer songwriter J R Harbidge has announced that he will be releasing his debut solo album, First Ray Of Light, via Absolute Label on October 5th.
Percy Philips & The Quarrymen Historic Recording
A new exhibition to be launched at International Beatle Week on 26th August will once again see the old adversaries, Everton and Liverpool FC, go head-to-head in an entirely different game of one-upmanship. The Percy Phillips Studio Collection will chart Percy’s...
Hear the Gong! GONG-OH Records Label Launch @ Paper Dress Vintage, London
As record launch parties go, this was always going to be a special one. GONG-OH Records is an innovative record label and collective of emerging European artists based in the UK. Founded by Victor Marichal, Alessandro de Cominato (Bandini), and Mattia East (The Man...
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