Some Great Reward? Depeche Mode’s ‘Ultra’ at 20
❉ Twenty years on, we explore the impact Ultra had on the band at a crucial stage in their career.
ALTERNATIVE
Cult Q & A: Maggie from Fuzzbox
❉ There must be more to life than this! Maggie Dunne is in the hot seat this week. Bostin’!
Throwback Thursday: ‘Chuck Berry Can’t Be Followed’ (1970)
❉ From rock’s back pages: Charlie Gillett on Chuck Berry.
Mesh – Britain’s Best Kept Secret
❉ Ange Chan profiles Bristol-based electronic band Mesh, and chats with Richard Silverthorn.
Fool the World: The Pixies’ Trompe le Monde
❉Proustian remembrances of things past, this particular musical madeleine being the Pixies’ Trompe Le Monde.
‘The Ghost Of Hope’ – The return of The Residents!
❉ Full steam ahead for the groundbreaking experimental music pioneers’ latest project.
Welcome, Stranger! The Blue Aeroplanes Return
❉ First album in six years from The Blue Aeroplanes, plus UK Tour
Baal is back! Pixies ‘Head Carrier’ reviewed
❉ Pixies are back – again! – with a new album, ‘Head Carrier’. “Is it any good? No. It’s great.”