2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (541+ words) Andrew Clayman is an ageing music writer, amateur shortstop, and semi-pro historian who left his sweet home Chicago to chase the dream in Leeds. Quite conceivably the only person to have interviewed Henry Rollins and Zooey Deschanel on the same…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (458+ words) The Beach Boys were brothers, friends, enemies, and everything in between. Dennis and Brian Wilson could certainly attest to that. The band’s close ties were most definitely what made things fractious over the years, but sometimes it was admittedly sad…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (347+ words) It would be decades into his career before Joe Walsh arguably struck upon his most important album. Walsh would remain with the Eagles to the end of their first tenure, as well as returning for 2007’s Long Road out of…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (464+ words) If John Goodman loved John Goodman as much as everyone else loved John Goodman, then the world would be a much sunnier place, but the actor has never seemed able to help himself. In most cases, if somebody spends decades…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (541+ words) Far Out Magazine The “fantastic” singer Phil Collins “fell in love with” Phil Collins was never afraid of coming off as uncool every now and again whenever he made his music. Plenty of artists have always been hesitant about going…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (544+ words) The “individual” musician David Gilmour knew no one could replace: “From the first second” Far Out Magazine The “individual” musician David Gilmour knew no one could replace: “From the first second” David Gilmour was always used to making music that…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (309+ words) It is something of a cliché that everybody’s music taste tends to skew towards whatever they were listening to during their teenage years, but, seemingly, even a songwriter as constantly forward-facing and innovative as The Cure’s Robert Smith isn’t above…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (283+ words) Prog-rock is a great genre if you love the idea of music being unpredictable. It’s a genre that nobody has really been able to define, as the whole point of prog is music that can’t fit into the mainstream because…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (399+ words) Time and time again, one riff has topped lists of the greatest rock riffs of all time. It’s muddy, it’s doom-laden, it’s faintly satanic: it’s ‘Black Sabbath’s ‘Symptom of the Universe’. Guitarist Tony Iommi, presumably hammered on cocaine and whisky…...

3+ day, 36+ min ago   (321+ words) On their latest album Losey, the ‘stargaze’ techno-meets-shoegaze duo Gnoomes, comprising Sasha and Masha Piankova, are channelling hope in the midst of conflict and fear. The duo were ostracised from their native Russia and thus, moved to Slovenia, but the…...