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Johnny Marr new album: Everything you need to know about Fever Dreams Pts 1-4
When is Johnny Marr’s new album out? Johnny Marr’s new double album, Fever Dreams Pts 1-4, his fourth solo release, will drop on 25 February 2022, via BMG. The record…
Top 20 girlband singles of the 80s
Pinballing between spiky new wave, pure pop, R&B, hip-hop and indie, these are the best girlband singles of the 80s The sheer volume of all-singing, all-dancing, all-female acts that emerged…
Duran Duran announce first NFT collaboration with A.I. artist, Huxley
Today, Duran Duran announced the launch of their latest endeavour: 100 unique NFTs (Non-Fungible Token) created by an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) named Huxley, with whom the band collaborated on the…
Electribe 101 to release second album – 30 years on
Electribe 101 are to finally release their second album, 30 years after recording it. Formed in 1988 and fronted by sometime S’Express vocalist Billie Ray Martin, they released their first…
14 essential Stone Roses songs
In our list of the best Stone Roses songs, we look back at the two albums and various singles of the most important Manchester band of all time (sorry,…
LEVEL 42 – ‘Lessons In Live’ UK Tour 2022
Sponsored post Level 42 will hit the road once more for the seven-date ‘Lessons In Live’ UK tour in November 2022. The ‘Lessons In Live’ Tour follows the hugely successful, albeit delayed…
Making David Bowie: “Heroes”
Following Low, David Bowie: “Heroes” was the singer’s triumphant love letter to Berlin… Though Low’s later instrumentals referenced various facets of Bowie’s newly adopted home of Berlin, as a whole,…
Top 40 New Romantic songs
From Spandau and Visage to Telex, Eno, Soft Cell, Gina X, Can, Space and – honestly – The Sweet, we look at the Top 40 New Romantic songs… Bowie’s Heroes…
The alternative David Bowie Top 20 – 1975-’80
In this list of the alternative David Bowie songs, we take a deep dive into his output between 1975 and 1980… During the last five years of the 70s, Bowie…