Tragedy: ‘Staying Alive: The Disco Inferno Of The Bee Gees’ reviewed
❉ This one of the best, and saddest, rock books you’ll ever read.
Music
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.
Fuzzbox are back!
❉ The most successful all-female band in British pop history have a new single out 23 October!
Psychedelic Furs, Lene Lovich Band: Norwich Waterfront, 11/09/2017
❉ Two New Wave acts from the last century sound as good today as they ever did.
Cult Icon: Peter Straker
❉ We never hear about Peter Straker. Perhaps it’s time we should.
Mtume – ‘Prime Time: The Epic Anthology’ reviewed
❉ Miles away from Miles, the pioneering funk/R&B band Mtume.
Swan Song: Siouxsie Sioux’s ‘Mantaray’
❉ Looking back on Siouxsie’s first and only solo album, released a decade ago today.
Sparks – ‘Hippopotamus’ reviewed
❉ This is an album that takes from the past and looks to the future.
Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls – “We Came Here To Work” reviewed
❉ Liz Buckley on the rich, thoughtful new album from Stuffies Miles and Erica.
I Speak Machine – ‘Zombies 1985’ reviewed
❉ An abrasive and ethereal love letter to the pioneers of industrial and electronica.