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Artist Features & Interviews
In 2018 Simple Minds returned with their 18th studio album, Walk Between Worlds. That year, we talked to Jim Kerr about how the band had weathered the storm and emerged…
The Producers – Nicky Graham
From The Nolans to PJ & Duncan via the mega-successful Bros, producer and songwriter Nicky Graham certainly knows how to score a chart-topping earworm – Yet there’s much more to…
Ian McCulloch interview: “I’ve got something that no one else has got”
In 2018, Ian McCulloch, aka Mac The Mouth, spoke to Classic Pop as Echo & The Bunnymen returned with reworked versions of some of the most iconic moments from their…
Pet Shop Boys announce new 2023 dates for Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live Tour
SPONSORED POST Pet Shop Boys have announced new 2023 dates for their critically acclaimed and sold-out tour, ‘Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live’, with tickets available now. The new tour dates…
Teenage Kicks: Dave Stewart interview
One of the music world’s great adventurers, even by Dave Stewart’s standards his new project Ebony McQueen is ambitious: a movie with an accompanying triple-album boxset. It also allows him…
xPropaganda interview: “Music should be a playground”
Alongside Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Welcome To The Pleasuredome, Propaganda’s A Secret Wish defined the grandeur of ZTT. Their debut album stood alone as a beacon of extravagant synth-pop… until…
Run-DMC Interview – “The greatest period in hip-hop was the time before recorded rap”
Run-DMC took hip-hop to the mainstream VIA crossover classics Walk This Way and It’s Tricky, but split after the death of Jam Master Jay in 2002. In 2021, rapper DMC…
Bernard Sumner: “There’s only one place to go once you hit Everest, and that’s down”
Perhaps one of pop’s most reluctant stars, Bernard Sumner of New Order has been behind some of the finest songs of the past 40-plus years. A couple of years back,…
The Boo Radleys interview: “I think there’s always been that dichotomy about us”
More than 20 years after calling it a day, The Boo Radleys are back – older, wiser, and minus their original songwriter. “People are giving us a chance,” singer Sice…
Stephen Duffy talks Dr Calculus
Stephen Duffy’s great lost album Designer Beatnik was part of the short-lived Dr Calculus project. In this interview from 2021, we take a look at the often overlooked experimental ode…