AN IDEA OF WHAT COLOUR SOUNDS LIKE A CONVERSATION WITH FADER Fader made their debut in 2017 with the brilliant album, First Light. The band was and is a duo consisting of Neil Arthur (Blancmange, Near Future) and Ben Edwards, known as Benge [...]
Marc Almond Stranger Things (Deluxe Expanded Edition) Cherry Red Records Stranger Things was originally released in 2001 and was Marc Almond’s 11th solo album and in many ways it was a bit of a departure for him. For this album, Almond teamed up [...]
xPropaganda The Heart Is Strange Universal Music xPropaganda is composed of Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag, who were one half of the brilliant and groundbreaking band Propaganda. In 1985 they joined forces with Ralf Dörper and Michael [...]
DON’T YOU FEEL CLOSER? A CONVERSATION WITH CY CURNIN OF THE FIXX In 1979, Cy Curnin and Adam Woods (drums) formed a band together, named Portraits. By 1982, the band added some key members, changed their name to The Fixx and had released [...]
Fader Quartz Blanc Check Records Fader is a duo, consisting of Neil Arthur (Blancmange/Near Future) and Benge (Wrangler, Creep Show and John Foxx And The Maths). Quartz is their third album, following 2019’s brilliant In Shadow. Benge also [...]
MELØ Things We Lost Independent Things We Lost is the debut EP from Windsor-based artist MELØ. He describes his music as riding an “edge where retro-futurism meets indie-pop and blooms into overdrive”. That is not a bad description. This is an [...]
Shawn Benfield Way Of The World Shotgunn Records Shawn Benfield is from West Virginia, which has found its way into his music, for the better. Way Of The World is his debut album, and it is one hell of a debut. This is country rock at its [...]
Conduit Of Humanity Siren Songs From Another World Rescord Records Conduit Of Humanity is more of a collective than a band. Founded by Fred Jeske as a recording collaborative art project with help from many artists, they have released two [...]
WAKING UP INTO THE NEW HORIZON A CONVERSATION WITH ALICE COHEN Alice Cohen has been performing since she was 14 when she was performing in coffee houses in Philadelphia, where she was born. By the late 1970s she was developing her songwriting [...]
Buzzcocks Senses Out Of Control Cherry Red Records Buzzcocks formed in 1976 when Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto formed the band in Manchester, having been influenced by the erupting punk rock scene. After one EP (Spiral Scratch), Devoto left [...]
Bill Bruford Making A Song And Dance: A Complete Career Collection BMG Bill Bruford. The very name conjures up the names of some of the prog rock giants. He was an original and founding member of Yes, and later Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe [...]
THE BEST PARTIES YOU GO TO ARE THE ONES YOU DON’T HAVE ANY EXPECTATIONS FOR A CONVERSATION WITH BILL LEEB OF DELERIUM Delerium started out as a side project for Bill Leeb, of Front Line Assembly fame, and Michael Balch, also from Front Line [...]
Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia Partisan Records Fontaines D.C. got their name from The Godfather character Johnny Fontane, a singer and actor played by Al Martino. They altered the spelling and added the D.C. when they discovered a band in Washington [...]
ROUGH TRADE IS WORK A CONVERSATION WITH ROUGH TRADE’S CAROLE POPE WITH BERNARD FRAZER (CHURCH OF TREES) In 1976, the first ‘direct to disc’ album was released by a relatively unknown Toronto band named Rough Trade. The album Rough Trade [...]
Brian Willoughby Twiddly Bits Cabritunes Records Brian Willoughby may be known for his work with the Strawbs as he has been a longstanding member. However, he has also worked with The Monks, Monty Python, Mary Hopkin and he has also released [...]
Nazareth Surviving The Law Frontiers Music Surviving The Law is Nazareth’s 25th studio album. Of course, over their 54-year history there have been many member changes, with only one original member remaining in the band, Pete Agnew on bass. [...]
DROWNING IN THE CULTURE A CONVERSATION WITH AVIV There is a lot happening for AVIV these days. The 16-year-old artist has not only just released her debut album, Drowning In The Culture, but she has been chosen to open for Imagine Dragons on the [...]
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys Teen Tapes (For Performing Your Own Stunts) Unique Records/Schubert Music Teen Tapes (For Performing Your Own Stunts) is the third album in a trilogy released by Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys. It began with [...]
Pere Ubu Nuke The Whales 2006-2014 Fire Records Nuke The Whales 2006 – 2014 is the latest installment of Fire Records’ re-release of the Pere Ubu catalogue. For this set, they are focusing on four albums released between 2006 and 2014. The [...]
Marvin Gaye What’s Going On: 50th Anniversary 2LP Edition Motown/Universal Originally released in May of 1971, What’s Going On was Marvin Gaye’s 11th studio album. Not only was it a departure from the music he had been making up to 1970 [...]
Daryl Hall BeforeAfter Legacy Recordings Daryl Hall and John Oates have had hits from the early 1970s until quite recently. They are one of the most popular duos of all time. What is often forgotten, however, is that both of them have [...]
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT – STORIES I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU: A MEMOIR RANDOM HOUSE CANADA BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Martha Wainwright comes from a very famous family. Her mother was Kate McGarrigle, one half of Kate and Anna McGarrigle and [...]
MY HEART IS AN ICE CREAM CONE A CONVERSATION WITH DALE BOZZIO OF MISSING PERSONS “I can recite the whole book verbatim. It can really drive you crazy, but that is the kind of mind I have. Everything is saved and filed in my head and I go to them [...]
Howard Jones The 12″ Album + 12″ers Vol. 2 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red continues to mine the Howard Jones catalogue and has come up with another brilliant release. This time they have taken the album The 12” Album, originally released in 1984 [...]
