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The Human League/Marc Almond/Toyah, Brighton Beach review - affable 1980s-themed seaside packageThursday, 24 July 2025
Today gradually blossoms from unpromising beginnings. LouderUK’s On The Beach event series takes place throughout the summer and runs the gamut from indie pop-rock, such as Kaiser Chiefs and Bloc Party, to dance events featuring DJs such as Bonobo... Read more... |
Album: Alice Cooper - The Revenge of Alice CooperThursday, 24 July 2025
Great (and not so great) bands reforming, either in the studio or in the live arena, is something of a trend at the moment. However, who would have thought that the original Alice Cooper band would not only be part of this trend but the creators of... Read more... |
An Audience with Dame Cleo Laine, RFH review - a phenomenon at 90Saturday, 19 May 2018
Yes, she sang, with her trademark artistry from the very first notes – four numbers, including a duet with daughter Jacqui Dankworth, and all in close partnership with her consummate players, including son Alec on double bass. Any worries that this... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: The Pale Fountains - The Complete Virgin YearsSunday, 27 July 2025
The Pale Fountains played their first live show on 12 February 1980 as the support to on-the-up fellow Liverpudlians Wah! Heat. Their final stage appearance – notwithstanding the odd reunion – was on 21 May 1987 at their home city’s The Majestic... Read more... |
Album: Indigo de Souza - PrecipiceSaturday, 26 July 2025
Indigo de Souza, a singer from North Carolina, has established some reputation, mostly in the States, for combining indie, pop and emotionally open lyrical heft. This is her fourth album, but her first on a larger label, Loma Vista (she was... Read more... |
Album: Mádé Kuti - Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From?Friday, 25 July 2025
There can be few musicians on the planet from a more storied musical dynasty than Mádé Kuti. He is the son of Femi, the grandson of Fela. He grew up in and around Femi’s New Afrika Shrine in Lagos, international hub of all things Afrobeat. A multi-... Read more... |
Album: Paul Weller - Find El DoradoWednesday, 23 July 2025
Paul Weller occupies a strange place in the cultural sphere. Especially since he was adopted as an elder statesman of Britpop in the mid 1990s, he’s been particularly beloved of a core audience whose tastes are extremely conservative. So much so, in... Read more... |
Album: Spafford Campbell - Tomorrow HeldMonday, 21 July 2025
Guitarist Louis Campbell and fiddle player Owen Spafford started playing together as teenagers in the National Youth Folk Ensemble when Sam Sweeney (of Bellowhead and Leveret) was its director. They released their first album, You Golden, three... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: Mike Taylor - Pendulum, TrioSunday, 20 July 2025
Wheels of Fire was Cream’s third album. Issued in the US in June 1968 and in the UK two months later, it was a double LP. One record was of live recordings, the other of studio material. Of the nine tracks on the latter, three were co-written by the... Read more... |
Youssou N'Dour and Super Étoile de Dakar, Roundhouse review - the best of AfricaSaturday, 19 July 2025
There is a freshness about a show by Youssou N’Dour that never seems to lose its glow. He still has one of the great voices of Africa, a versatile and richly-textured tenor that doesn’t show the sign (at 65) of growing old and tired.At the... Read more... |
Album: Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars - DreamsSaturday, 19 July 2025
What a great album – and what a great story to lift the heart in these fetid times. A story that crosses oceans and decades and brings together a Canadian singer-songwriter for once worthy of the label “legend” and a bunch of Bob Harris Emerging... Read more... |
Album: Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, KidFriday, 18 July 2025
The best-selling single so far this year in the UK is Californian singer Alex Warren’s “Ordinary”. It stayed at the top of the charts longer than any song this decade. If you’re not familiar, imagine the lyrical mood and production of Hosier’s “Take... Read more... |
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