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The pre-eminent songwriter of his era, less was definitely more during the former Wham! star’s solo career… Faith Released 1987 Label Columbia/Epic Chart Position UK No.1 and US No.1 Few,…
The Brand New Heavies Interview: ‘There are all of these grooves we haven’t got out of our systems yet’
In the early 1990s, The Brand New Heavies were at the forefront of the burgeoning Acid Jazz scene. A quarter of a century on, Founder member Andrew Levy talks to…
Review: UNKLE – The Road Part II: Lost Highway
Mo’Wax founder James Lavelle’s back again with a cameo-laden sequel to 2017’s similarly cameo-laden fifth studio album, except this time it’s double the length, leading one to wonder, since it’s…
Reissue Review: Various Artists – C87
Originally released as a mail order cassette by NME in May 1986, C86 was, for better or worse, to spawn a whole movement of alternately twee and shambling indie guitar…
Reissue Review: Primal Scream – Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll
“You can’t sing, you can’t play, you look awful,” a sneering A&R man told a hapless bunch of pop hopefuls on the other side of his desk in a fondly-remembered…
Review: NEW ORDER – ∑(NO,12K,LG,17MIF) NEW ORDER + LIAM GILLICK: SO IT GOES…
It’s sobering to realise this souvenir of New Order’s cumbersomely titled collaboration with conceptual artist Liam Gillick is their fourth live collection in less than a decade. Recorded in 2017…
New Prince Album Announced on 60th Birthday
The Prince Estate, in partnership with Warner Bros. Records, has announced a new Prince album entitled Piano & A Microphone 1983 in honour of what would have been the pop legend’s 60th…
Review: Artmagic – The Songs Of Other England
Wyndham Wallace takes a look at the new album from Suede’s Richard Oakes and Alison Moyet’s Sean McGhee as they collaborate to create Artmagic… A lot’s happened since Artmagic released…
Skids – Scared To Dance review
Dunfermline punk/new wave outfit Skids boasted charismatic future TV presenter Richard Jobson as their frontman, and were the band out of which Big Country formed – Stuart Adamson was their…
The Members – Greatest Hits: All The Singles review
Like The Undertones, The Members were a late-arriving punk band, although they weren’t really a post-punk band. They dabbled in reggae with their single Offshore Banking Business, but it wasn’t…