(Credit: Stephen Parker / Alamy) Music The strange reason Stephen Street stopped working with Primal Scream Mick McStarkey Sun 24th Oct 2021 21.00 BST Music is full of weird and wonderful stories. There’s something about musicians, particularly our favourite ones, where it comes almost as a guarantee that they have…
Credit: IDLES Music Why IDLES' Joe Talbot thought 'Ultra Mono' "translated badly" Tom Taylor @TomTaylorFO Mon 25th Oct 2021 09.45 BST IDLES frontman Joe Talbot has shared his thoughts on why he believes that the band’s last release, Ultra Mono, didn’t translate as well to fans during the pandemic. The album…
(Credit: Press / Tore Sætre) Music The one Jimmy Webb lyric that enraged Harry Nilsson Mick McStarkey Sun 24th Oct 2021 20.00 BST The world of music is full of tales of friendships between some of the most iconic musicians of all time. George Harrison and Eric Clapton, David Bowie…
(Credit: Amy Peskett) Music New Noise: Why you need to start listening to Mrley Joe Taysom @josephtaysom Sat 23rd Oct 2021 11.15 BST Every so often, an artist comes along who immediately draws you in, and it took less than 30-seconds from me pressing play on Mrley’s debut single, ‘My…
(Credit: Instagram) Music Far Out Fist Impressions: Lana Del Rey hangs tough on 'Blue Banisters' Tyler Golsen @TylerGolsen Fri 22nd Oct 2021 16.15 BST There’s a point in every artist’s career where they become so established that they become predictable. It becomes much easier, for instance, to do imitations of…
Music The first album Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders ever bought Tyler Golsen @TylerGolsen Sun 24th Oct 2021 10.30 BST We all have those first records that mean the world to us. Just as you’re getting to know yourself, likely in the nascent days of your teenage years, you start…
(Credit: James Hornsby) Music Alex Lahey shares brand new song 'Spike the Punch' Tyler Golsen @TylerGolsen Fri 22nd Oct 2021 14.30 BST Alex Lahey - 'Spike the Punch' 8.4 Australian alt-rocker Alex Lahey has returned with a brand new single, ‘Spike the Punch’. Quietly one of indie rock’s most reliably…
(Credit: Alamy) Music Revisiting My Chemical Romance's rock opera triumph 'The Black Parade' 15 years later Mick McStarkey Sat 23rd Oct 2021 16.30 BST This week marked the 15th anniversary of My Chemical Romance‘s third studio album, The Black Parade. The LP is undoubtedly the band’s magnum opus and is their most…
(Credit: Pooneh Ghana / Press) Music Far Out First Impressions: Parquet Courts bring the noise on 'Sympathy for Life' Tyler Golsen @TylerGolsen Fri 22nd Oct 2021 13.45 BST Parquet Courts - 'Sympathy for Life' 8.3 If you thought you knew what you were expecting coming into a Parquet Courts album,…
(Credit: Howard Dey Music Dave Grohl thinks the world is waking up to guitar music once more Mick McStarkey Fri 22nd Oct 2021 11.13 BST Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has explained how he believes that “the dial is starting to turn” back towards guitar music in the mainstream. In…