The level of self-imposed pressure that Stephin Merritt must have put on himself following the release of The Magnetic Fields’ four hour masterpiece, 1999’s 69 Love Songs, …

Purchased, simply because I was flicking through the racks at Record Collector, took one look at the cover and declared that, regardless of the music …

With a fuzz bass sound to die for high on their list of priorities, and critical adulation low, Grand Funk (Railroad) blazed a trail across America from …

Rhino have always had a reputation for putting together some damn fine compilations which work as ideal introductions to the bands in question. The Best of …

Lydon, Shelley & Diggle, Strummer and Jones. They were the great punk poets weren’t they? The less cliched among us would cast the net further …

Has there ever been another album quite as unrelentingly miserable as The Wall? It first entered my life back in 1998, when I was suffering …

One of the things that strikes you when you look at Neil Young’s extensive discography is just how many live albums he has put out …

Despite being one of the biggest acts of the 70s, Jethro Tull are not a band that have ever enjoyed career reassessment and rehabilitation by …

The aging process is a strange thing and effects us all in different ways. Some of us barely notice it, there are those that do …

For years I unfairly dismissed Willie and the Poor Boys as one of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s weakest albums. I can’t explain why this was the case, as it …