Daily Newsletter, April 23, 2024

If you start looking through your or anybody else’s record collection, ‘classic’ rock, pop soul, whatever, or current stuff, how many concept albums do you thin

Many rock sub-genres come and fall into the background or simply wither away. Others, like shoegaze or grunge, for example,

In a year that sees him finish his 'magical memoir', a new album with The Red Elastic Band and a career-spanning homecoming show in Liverpool, former Shack, Strands and Pale Fountains frontman Michael Head takes Patrick Clarke through the 13 records that shaped him

I don’t think I’m alone in dividing the first two decades of The Rolling Stones’ career – in very broad strokes – as one of the great singles bands of the

Anna Calvi picked her favourite cult classic album, declaring it the "best kind of pop" for its thoughtful and interesting yet catchy sound.

An excellent new “generative” documentary In the opening scene of this hugely enjoyable Brian Eno doc, we find the composer/polymath bopping around in his home studio, thinking about a composition like an ecosystem. As he works, we see him add weather, and even an animal population to his piece. Eventually he tweaks some controls on […]

An exhibition dedicated to 20th century British crime fiction has opened at Cambridge University Library. The artefacts on show range widely through the history of the genre, from items associated Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle right up to modern exponents of the form, Val McDermid and Ian Rankin.  Lurking somewhere in many of

'Fruits of the Deep' is long-running London band The Woodentops' fourth album and first since 2014.

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