Record(s) o’ the Month – August 2023
Hot on the heels of our disgustingly tardy July Record(s) o’ the Month comes the newly minted August edition! We need to churn these things...
“The curtain across the control room went back and there was Rick with his dick in a wine glass going, ‘Coq au vin, anyone?’.” David Paton’s life in music
Pilot bassist and The Alan Parsons Project member reminisces about working with Kate Bush, Rick Wakeman’s unusual ice-breakers, and that time onebof his songs was...
The 10 most imaginative covers of Metallica songs
Apocalyptica, Kamasi Washington and Moses Sumney have all pushed Metallica’s music well beyond the realms of metal
“He released the set without even bothering with a single to precede it, preferring fans to hear it as a whole entity – an archetypically progtastic move”: Prince’s Around The World In A Day
The success of Purple Rain meant he could basically do anything he wanted with its 1985 follow-up, which he did with minimal fanfare
“We had broads in our trailer. The refrigerator was loaded with beer. We were into coke. We were animals”: Why Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park was destined to be rock’n’roll’s worst movie
Kiss wanted to be stars of the silver screen as well as the concert stage but they couldn’t act, they had no budget, and Phantom...
Portland Dark Post-Punk Ensemble Hovering Shrikes Debut Tenebrous New Single “Things Go Missing”
I’ve checked every Stygian pocket for breath; there is none. In the wake of numerous home-produced offerings, the Portland-based ensemble, Hovering Shrikes, heralds the advent...