Gig Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Brix & The Extricated
❉ Less a gig, more an elating sonic attack.
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Tragedy: ‘Staying Alive: The Disco Inferno Of The Bee Gees’ reviewed
❉ This one of the best, and saddest, rock books you’ll ever read.
Songs From The Sound Pit: Marc Bolan’s ‘Zinc Alloy’ Revisited
❉ 40 years on from Bolan’s passing, a personal appreciation of an underrated album.
‘Marc Bolan: Cosmic Dancer’ reviewed
❉ “It’s not even ambition, it’s total obsession with being a star”
Fuzzbox are back!
❉ The most successful all-female band in British pop history have a new single out 23 October!
Swan Song: Siouxsie Sioux’s ‘Mantaray’
❉ Looking back on Siouxsie’s first and only solo album, released a decade ago today.
I Speak Machine – ‘Zombies 1985’ reviewed
❉ An abrasive and ethereal love letter to the pioneers of industrial and electronica.
Devo – ‘Recombo DNA’ reviewed
❉ Career-spanning Devo rarities set expanded and reissued!
B.A. Robertson – A Square Peg In A Round World
❉ The once-ubiquitous, post-punk polymath’s solo work, re-evaluated by Tim Worthington.
‘Noise Reduction System: Formative European Electronica 1974-1984’
❉ Journey into the origins of electronica in Europe – from early techno and electro to synth-pop, industrial, ambient and noise experiments.