A BEAUTIFUL, CRAZY KIND OF ART FORM A CONVERSATION WITH JON SPENCER Jon Spencer has been playing his own style of music for over 40 years. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion really did explode on the scene in 1991 with their classic album A Reverse [...]
LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY & MOUSE ON MARS SPATIAL, NO PROBLEM DOMINO RECORDS Lee “Scratch” Perry passed away on August 29, 2021. The music world lost a true original and an artist who had worked with just about everyone. But that didn’t mean he [...]
FIREBUG DUST AND ECHOES BUDDHA BELT RECORDS FireBug has been making music since 2017. The core of FireBug is Juliette Tworsey (lead vocal, guitar, slide guitar, piano, organ) and Jules Shapiro (lead guitar, synthesizer, bass). This EP, Dust and [...]
JALEN NGONDA DOCTRINE OF LOVE DAPTONE RECORDS Jalen Ngonda burst on the scene in 2023 with his debut album, Come Around And Love Me, and justifiably earned critical acclaim for his own style of soul music that owes a great deal of debt to Motown [...]
THROTTLE BODY M/C ALL THAT WAS GREEN MONKEY RECORDS Throttle Body M/C is really a project for Jerry Hammack, a well-known engineer, producer, writer, and musician. Hammack played all the instruments, produced, wrote, and engineered the album, so [...]
FIVE MEMBERS WORKING TOGETHER IN HARMONY A CONVERSATION WITH JON DAVISON OF YES Yes formed in London in 1968 with their debut album Yes being released one year later. The original line-up of Yes was the founding members Jon Anderson (vocals, [...]
PAUL McCARTNEY THE BOYS OF DUNGEON LANE MPL/UNIVERSAL It has been over five years since Paul McCartney’s last studio album, McCartney III, and McCartney has noted that during those years, he took his time with what became The Boys of Dungeon [...]
THE ALARM TRANSFORMATION TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY RECORDINGS This is a rather difficult review, not because there is any question about the quality of the music in the package, but because this is Mike Peters’ farewell. I bought The Alarm’s [...]
DOUBLESPEAK DOUBLESPEAK LONDON RECORDS Doublespeak is a supergroup of three influential and much-loved electrobeat artists from the past 40 years. Neil Arthur (Blancmange, Fader), Vince Clarke (Yazoo, Depeche Mode, Erasure), and Benge [...]
FROM OBSCURE CUTS TO NEW CLASSICS A CONVERSATION WITH VINCE CLARKE, NEIL ARTHUR & BENGE OF DOUBLESPEAK Whenever three superstars get together to form a band or complete a project, it is big news. In this case, anyone who has followed [...]
J.C. THOMAZ AND THE MISSING SLIPPERS J.C. THOMAZ AND THE MISSING SLIPPERS SLOVENLY RECORDINGS From Rotterdam, NL, comes the gritty punk/post punk of J.C. Thomaz and The Missing Slippers. Reportedly this debut album was two decades in the making [...]
PETER FRAMPTON CARRY THE LIGHT UME It is a good idea to forget what you think you know about Peter Frampton before you listen to his new album, Carry The Light. This is an extremely important album for Peter Frampton. Not only is it his first [...]
PAT GILBERT – PASSION IS A FASHION: THE REAL STORY OF THE CLASH AURUM/QUARTO GROUP BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Pat Gilbert’s Passion Is A Fashion: The Real Story of The Clash has stood out from other bios on The Clash since it was first [...]
TOM DOYLE – RINGO STARR: A FAB LIFE ECW PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Tom Doyle is a very respected music journalist who has also written several books about many artists. His library includes books about Paul McCartney, Elton John, [...]
TEENAGE LESSONS SET ME RIGHT A CONVERSATION WITH STEPHEN PATMAN OF CHAPTERHOUSE Chapterhouse formed in Reading, Berkshire in 1987 when three friends came together with a common love of music. Andrew Sherriff (vocals, guitar), Stephen Patman [...]
THE WOGGLES STOP AND TAKE A MINUTE WICKED COOL RECORDS The Woggles’ debut album was released in 1993 (Teen Dance Party), since then they have released 11 studio albums and a number of singles. The singles are the stars of the show here, as a [...]
AYRIA VICIOUS WORLD ARTOFFACT RECORDS Jennifer Parkin has been releasing music under the Ayria moniker since 2003 (Debris was Ayria’s debut album). Although she is the driving force behind the project, over the years she has had a number of [...]
DEE LONG WATER IS MAGIC DEE LONG MUSIC It has been far too long since the last Dee Long album, 2011’s Life AfterLife. While there had been some singles and an EP, Long’s voice and guitar playing had been missing. But he is back with his new [...]
ROB CLARKE OPIOPE ALDORA BRITAIN RECORDS Opiope is Rob Clarke’s seventh solo album (he has also released music with The Wooltones and Brown Bears) and his first since 2024’s Blues Beats And Brel album. Opiope is much more of a band effort than [...]
ELECTRIC SIX I SHALL EXTERMINATE EVERYTHING AROUND ME THAT RESTRICTS ME FROM BEING THE MASTER (2026 REMASTER) METROPOLIS RECORDS I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master was originally released in 2007 and [...]
VILLANELLE MEASLY MEANS FAE GRP PUBLISHING VILLANELLE is a UK-based grunge and alternative rock band formed in 2023. They are fronted by singer and guitarist Gene Gallagher (son of Oasis’s Liam Gallagher) and also feature Ben Taylor [...]
TORI AMOS IN TIMES OF DRAGONS FONTANA In Times of Dragons is Tori Amos’s 18th studio album and her first since 2021’s powerful Ocean to Ocean (although she did release the streaming only soundtrack for her children’s book in 2025, titled The [...]
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER I’M PEOPLE CHRYSALIS RECORDS I’m People is Hiss Golden Messenger’s 16th studio album, since their debut in 2008. M.C. Taylor (who really is Hiss Golden Messenger at this point) continues his slide into Americana music. In [...]
NIALL CONNOLLY THERE’S SO MUCH MORE TO SEE C.U. RECORDS It has been three years since Niall Connolly’s last studio album (the brilliant Patience of Trees), and while three years is a bit of time, There’s So Much More to See has been [...]
