Fifteen years after beginning her solo career with typewriters and bicycles as instruments, Norway’s Hanne Hukkelberg is still employing found sounds as her work’s foundation, though rarely so accessibly. It…
Review: The Skids – Peaceful Times
Confronted by the reality of a Skids acoustic album – never an especially obvious prospect for punk veterans like them – the first concern one has is for singer Richard…
Kim Wilde Interview: Going Live
Kim Wilde has rarely taken a conventional approach to the business of being a pop star. But now, a mere 38 years after her chart debut, she’s finally ready to…
Heaven 17 40th anniversary tour unveiled
Heaven 17 are marking the big 4-0 with a major celebration. Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory embark on a 10-date 40th Anniversary Greatest Hits tour in 2020 kicking off in…
Review: John Power – Solo 2003 – 2008
Having recently reissued Cast’s first four albums, Demon now present a boxset of singer John Power’s three solo LPs (complete with a free signed print, memorabilia fans.) Cast first imploded…
Godfathers of Pop: Bernard Sumner Interview
The New Order frontman Bernard Sumner talks electronic, dentists and lifetime achievement songwriting awards with Rudy Bolly… Perhaps one of pop’s most reluctant stars, Bernard Sumner has been behind some…
The Cranberries receive first Grammy nomination for final album
It’s the first Grammy nod to The Cranberries illustrious career… SHOP FOR IN THE END NOW The Cranberries’ final album In The End has been nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2020…
Gary Numan Interview: Savage and Trump
It’s been 40 years since Gary Numan dissolved Tubeway Army and immediately had solo success with Cars. It’s just as significant that it’s 25 years since the electronic music innovator rescued his…
Review: A Flock Of Seagulls – Inflight – The Extended Essentials
In 2018, the original A Flock Of Seagulls reformed for the first time since 1984 to rework their hits with The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra for the album Ascension. A year…
Reissue: Echo & The Bunnymen
Significantly, this collection of 21 Echo & The Bunnymen tracks are from the very beginning of the bands existence… Such was the mutual love-in between Echo & The Bunnymen and…