Blues rock duo The Black Keys are back with Let’s Rock, a dense, rich fuzz rock barrage of danceable bouncy blues, laced with gospel-esque choral backing vocals and groove laden beefy drums. The band’s first album since 2014’s Turn Blue, …read more
A companion piece to last year’s ‘Konoyo’ this arrives very quickly after its predecessor. Drawing again from sessions with Tokyo Gakusko, it’s very much part two of a journey. Konoyo refers to the physical world, this world and that album …read more
Our Love Vinyl event with Richer Unsigned was a smash thanks to James Morrison and some special friends… This year, we teamed up with turntable legends Technics to celebrate and support vinyl retailers around the world. We started off the …read more
Record Store Day is almost here again – take a look at our top choices from this year’s offerings! 808 State – 4 States of 808 State “Limited edition 4 x 12″ box set exploring four very different sides of …read more
They’ve come a long way from being so drunk on a minor stage that they were sick on their own amps – and some of us will always remember that. Having reached heights most angry teen bands never attain – …read more
Muse have steadily moved to the point where they are releasing the eighth studio album of their career. They’ve never made a duff album, but have they ever made a classic, career defining one, like The Joshua Tree or Violator? …read more
The Prodigy, from Braintree, Essex, are pretty much an English institution now. They’ve been doing this for 28 years, you know. You’d think being still pretty high profile that their recent achievements in the field of science would’ve merited more …read more
Marianne Faithfull is a fast approaching 72-year-old singer and sometime actress and Negative Capability is the 21st studio album of her 53-year recording career… She has never been conventional, she recorded and released two debut albums – a ‘pop’ effort at the …read more
In a 25-year recording career Richard Ashcroft has released ten studio albums either as part of the Verve or solo. This latest offering has had some critical mauling, in fact, it got one of the worst write ups I’ve ever …read more
Bowie and the 80s. It all started off so well (Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) and a few spin off single productions) yet even the most ardent Bowie fan would be hard pressed to argue that the decade was a continuation …read more
