May 2024

Small Faces frontman Steve Marriott often made no secret of his disdain for the lightweight pop sound that he wanted the group to rise above....

Ritchie Blackmore was three years and three albums into his new band, Rainbow, when the charts of May 6, 1978 brought news on both sides...

The cover of James Blake’s third studio album, The Colour In Anything, sees the singer receding into a moody watercolour landscape. It may seem like...

Not for the last time, Camel – or, more specifically, guitarist Andy Latimer, the last man standing from the original group – a polarised opinion...

The combination of avant-garde eccentricity, cutting-edge creativity and brilliant musicianship was Frank Zappa’s stock-in-trade, no matter who he was working with. On May 6, 1978,...

When Austin’s Butthole Surfers emerged in the 1980s as one of the American underground’s most unpredictable and quite literally dangerous bands, they seemed an unlikely...