ABBA have nothing to prove at this point, do they? Benny said so himself. They have huge sales, they’ve crisscrossed the globe doing it live and their songwriting craft is now revered in certain quarters. But it isn’t just about the music. This is a soap opera. 40 years since the last ABBA album The […] More
Nick Vivid walks to his own beat. Exhibit A: new album No More Secrets. What is it? Loads of things. Dance. New Wave Funk. New Soul. Singer songwriter styles. And it really works. If takes self belief to shrug at the prevailing musical trends and do your own thing. Not sure Nick Vivid even saw […] More
The Bluesy riff is familiar, Lizzie & The Makers tell us. Yes, but on this second album, Dear Onda Wahl, it’s done with stunning style. Band from NYC. Release number three. Just happens to be… Brilliant. Cor! That slide is rough as a badger’ behind, a little piano under it and ghostly organ leading us […] More
Salt Ashes doesn’t really care what you think about her music. That much is clear in the certainty of Killing My Mind. After all Veiga Sanchez, otherwise known as Salt Ashes, says, ‘I’ve learnt over the years to be unapologetic with music and what I want to say and to allow whatever is inside to […] More
I’ve always wanted to cover ‘Day Of The Lords.’ In my opinion it is the heaviest of Joy Division’s songs. – Randy Blythe, Lamb Of God. What’s The Deal? Saudade are an odd supergroup. Are they a supergroup? Gill Sharone from Dillinger Escape Plan, Randy, Dr Know from Bad Brains, Mickie Jayson of Cro-Mags fame, […] More
This is different. Different to what Habibi, that Brooklyn based band, have given us before. They don’t do what you expect, producing an EP, Cardamon Garden, which had songs sung in Farsi. They’ve presented two albums of brittle, Psyche-touched ’60s harmony music. Their output doesn’t go many places—it’s already starting in a place you might […] More
Can it really be 40 years since Duran Duran broke out of the Rum Runner club and released their first album? I feel old. So think how Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor must feel with the release of Future Past. They haven’t all been together at the same time over […] More
Udo Dirkschneider is almost 70 years old. And he doesn’t figure to be suffering from Metal fatigue just yet. The Heavy Metal Icon of Accept and his own band UDO has just released his most accessible album yet. Game Over contains all the heavy hitting but has some mature melody too. Udo is an affable […] More
Why not a few? Why not a slew? That’s what Stephen Sondheim asked us in “More” and The Wedding Present’s David Gedge must have been listening, because he’s decided to give us a song a month. A 7″ every 30 days or so. 24 of ’em. Well, it is called 24 Songs. That’s loads. 24 […] More
We Are Scientists are not prepared to do what you want. That much is certain from their albums. They’ve come from a tightly wound feel on 2005’s With Love And Squalor and 2010’s Barbara. Then they picked up a sweet ’80s feel and even split their time with Art Brut on the collaborative mess of […] More
Barry Adamson’s memoir is called Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars and it couldn’t be better phrased. This a man who has risen with angels and dined with demons. You may not know him and that’s no problem. He hasn’t exactly made himself apparent. You won’t see him on Strictly Come Dancing or […] More
Sex sells. Apparently. And that, we should accept, happened somewhat in Rock and Metal in the ’80s. It still happens now. But not with Doro Pesch. She’s been playing Metal for almost 40 years. And now she’s released a live version of her most popular album, Triumph and Agony The lead singer of Warlock could […] More
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