‘With Teeth’: Nine Inch Nails ‘Bristle And Slam’ On 2005 No.1
Nine Inch Nails fans may have had to endure a five and a half year wait from the band’s third studio album The Fragile in...
‘Hot Space’: Queen’s Electro-Funk Experiment
Queen fans had to wait some 17 months for a new album to follow the soundtrack triumph of Flash Gordon, however, they could still indulge...
‘Contours’: How Sam Rivers Hit New Heights Of Creativity
Though it was recorded on Friday, May 21, 1965, Sam Rivers’ second Blue Note LP, Contours, didn’t get a commercial release until two years later,...
‘Down On The Upside’: How Soundgarden’s Fifth Album Flipped The Script
Coming off the back of Badmotorfinger and Superunknown, Soundgarden’s fifth album, Down On The Upside, has often been unfairly overlooked, even though it debuted at...
‘Sir Duke’: Stevie Wonder Salutes Duke Ellington And Soars To No.1
Duke Ellington had plenty in common with Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald. But perhaps one of the more unusual connections between...
Pioneering disco DJ and vocalist Franchino dies, age 71
Famed Italian disco and progressive trance DJ and vocalist Franchino has died at the age of 71. Franchino’s death was announced by his management via...