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Classic Pop
Paul Simon’s voice will always be a familiar comfort, but if the titles of some of the songs on his 14th studio album are familiar, too, that doesn’t mean you’ve…
The French New Wave: Carpenter Brut interview
At the forefront of the synthwave movement, Carpenter Brut mines 80s influences and concept albums. “I’m not trying to reinvent anything,” he insists. “I just want to make the music…
Review: Ann Wilson – Immortal
As with her first album, 2007’s Hope And Glory – though that admittedly featured one self-penned tune – Ann Wilson’s second solo collection features a bunch of covers, this time…
Review: Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt
One can’t help wonder how helpful it was for Jason Pierce to be aligned so closely with drug culture. There was no escaping the famously narcotic haze out of which…
One Hit Wonder: Pebbles – Girlfriend
Pebbles has had six real surnames in her eventful life, so probably one of the more astute things she ever did was giving herself an easily recognisable pseudonym when launching…
The Producers: Mark Ronson interview
“The music I make is not a nostalgia trip down memory lane… I want to make music for now.” Rudy Bolly chats to Mark Ronson. Super-producer, DJ, pop star and…
Review: Lenny Kravitz – Raise Vibration
Who wouldn’t accuse Lenny Kravitz of showing off upon hearing him sing, halfway through his 11th album: “Just hold me like Johnny Cash/ When I lost my mother”? He is,…
Next-Level Thinking: Level 42 interview
Inspired as a youngster by the jazz greats, Mark King soon reinvented bass playing and took Level 42 into the upper echelons of the pop charts with an irresistibly funky…
Superfan: Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Gill Coombs
Devoted fans whos us their collections and pop memorabilia. This time, Gill Coombs from Brighton shows us her Frankie Goes To Hollywood collection… Q When did you first become a Superfan…
Review: Dubstar – One
When lined up alongside the Britpop acts of their era, there was something a bit different about Dubstar. Stars first scraped into the Top 40 a month before the infamous…