It never attracted the acclaim or profile of a Factory or Postcard, but Inevitable Records was a valuable conduit for Liverpool indie music in the late 1970s and early 1980s.…
Reissue Review: Various Artists – Now That’s What I Call Music II
Now That’s What I Call Music I was reissued with much fanfare late last year to coincide with Now 100, but the second album in the series arguably deserves more…
Toyah Willcox Interview: Rebellion and Collaboration
After more than 40 years in the music business, Toyah Willcox is as creatively hungry as she was in her teens. Classic Pop chats to the high priestess of punk…
Reissue Review: R.E.M. The Best Of R.E.M. – In Time 1988–2003
The finest that Athens, Georgia, has to offer deserve a definitive career-spanning Best Of. Sadly, this isn’t it… R.E.M.’s precipitous late-1980s ascent into the rock stratosphere was a charming, off-kilter…
Reissue Review: Spear of Destiny – The Albums 1983-85
William Blake famously observed that the fool who persists in his folly shall become wise. Pouting peroxide post-punk Kirk Brandon represented a pretty stiff challenge to that weighty maxim. Brandon’s…
The Lowdown: Japan and David Sylvian
Inspired by glam and myopically lumped in with the New Romantics because of a proclivity for cosmetics, Japan were always more art than pop. They quit after five albums, reunited…
2 Tone Records Interview: 40 Years of 2 Tone Records
With its message of unity, 2 Tone burned bright as the embers of punk faded and offered hope to a generation lost. Forty years on from its inception, Classic Pop…
A Flock of Seagulls Interview: Iconic hair and the folly of youth
One of the few British bands of the 80s to be bigger in the states than back home, A Flock Of Seagulls were known to many as much for their…
De La Soul Interview: Through the Daisy and Digital Ages
Thirty years after 3 Feet High And Rising revolutionised hip-hop, De La Soul are still honouring the culture and taking the genre forward. With their albums soon to be available…
Classic Album: Club Classics Vol. One – Soul II Soul
Emerging from the underground sound system scene, Jazzie B and his collective of Funki Dreds gathered to make an album which incorporated a fusion of styles and influences to create…