Posts in category Past Lives

“It matters not where I come from in relation to the world, as long as the world and I arrive at a common point at …

It was only last month that Backseat Mafia reviewed the great new album from David Berman’s Purple Mountains project, saying it was: a beautiful album …

In 1975, Rowland S. Howard wrote a song called ‘Shivers’, one of the best songs ever to come out of Australia and indeed anywhere (in …

And so the so-called classic trio is no more. The last remaining member of iconic heavy metal band Motörhead best known line up, ‘fast’ Eddie …

Of all the luminaries of pop music that we have lost in the last couple of years, it is the music of Tom Petty which …

“We completely refuse to make a judgement about what is beautiful and what isn’t. We make something, that’s all, and the scope of possible sounds …

Tuxedomoon (originally consisting of Steven Brown and Blaine L. Reininger ), were part of the late 70’s San Francisco ‘Freak Scene’, which also included The Residents, Chrome …

Film-maker, George A. Romero, died on July 16th, 2017, after a losing a brief aggressive battle with lung cancer. His name is synonymous with the …

Liverpool singer Pete Burns died of a heart attack on Sunday. He was 57. I first encountered Pete Burns around 1978. Me and my schoolmates …

As a music blogger, this is a post I never wanted to write. In fact, it’s a post I never thought I would write. Prince …