Joy Divison - "Unknown Pleasures" Reviewed and Revisited
November 4, 2024
Joy Division’s debut was the moment when punk rock stopped needing to be fast, aggressive or sloppy. The Manchester band, for many, pioneered and defined what was to be dubbed “post-punk,” a tense, mid-tempo style primarily dedicated to existentialist…
Fabian Brusk-Jahn - "In the Dungeons of Bäckabo" Reviewed
November 3, 2024
Maybe it is true that the Universe has a way of balancing things out. It never gives too much or too little to one place or a particular group of people. This leaves everyone having to scramble, needing to learn to negotiate and, occasionally, wanting to get the hell out of…
The Cure - "Songs of a Lost World" Review
November 2, 2024
The Cure, the band that might’ve made you dance to songs like “Lovecats” and “Friday I’m In Love,” are, maybe more than any other rock group, associated with gloom, sadness and despair. Wouldn’t you be upset if this far in the game…
The Stone Roses - “The Stone Roses” Reviewed and Revisisted
October 31, 2024
The Stone Roses’ self-titled debut album proves, more than anything, the importance of never giving up. While The Roses had been a band for many years and had never achieved much success in Manchester, their first album was greeted by nearly anyone as the work of pure…
Carter Brady - “Shopping Cart” Review
October 30, 2024
There are punks, and then there are punks. Some punks write rebellious songs, bring energy to the tunes and aren’t afraid to turn up their guitar amps. The other types of punks punch needing needles through their eyebrows, shout into a mic about wanting to assassinate the…
Soundgarden - “Superunknown” Reviewed and Revisited
October 30, 2024
Soundgarden’s “Superunknown” was the crowning achievement for a band previously content with sitting on the periphery of grunge’s success. It was instantly accepted as an alternative rock staple and even admired by fans of classic rock. Few bands ever…
Jeff Buckley - "Grace" Reviewed and Revisited
October 29, 2024
Jeff Buckley wrote transcendental rock music. Not many people thought that such a thing could still exist in the 1990s, what with all the music videos and magazine covers shining their blinding light on artists and their work. But like Van Morrisson or Bob Dylan before him…
The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! - "If I Stop Moving, I'll Fall From The Sky" Reviewed
October 28, 2024
Want to read something wild? Go and pick up any biography of any important blues, country or rock n’ roll singer from the U.S.A. who operated mainly in the 1950s or ’60s. Your mind will be blown, and I am willing to bet that the truth will certainly outshine the…
Flora Cash - “Behind Every Beautiful Thing” Review
October 23, 2024
When it comes to all great artists, the centre can never hold, things can’t stay the way that they were, and change is inevitable. When it comes to some musicians, this is terrible news. After all, rock stars are paid a lot of money to pretend that time has changed…