90s Week: INTERVIEW: Drugstore
Isabel Monteiro is back with a ‘new’ line up of Drugstore after a nine year hiatus! Drugstore were kind of a cult name to drop back in the 90s, their noirish alt country suites enlivened by Isabel’s...
View Article90s: 100 songs of the 1990s!
Compiling a list is very High Fidelity isn’t it? The music nerd in all of us is often mentally compiling one. But in reality ranking music can be more like trying to dance to architecture – more than a...
View ArticleRecord Store Day 2013: NeedToKnow and NeedToGet
In 2010 for Record Store Day I spent the afternoon in front of Rough Trade West, where The Magic Numbers were playing on the pavement, with the crowd moving for every car coming by. I went back home...
View ArticleBritPop Month: Behold The Retro!
“In the 1990s a picture of John Noakes (the children’s TV presenter of the 1970s) was used to sell vodka, and space hoppers became a ubiquitous symbol- tacky nostalgia telly shorthand – for a kind of...
View ArticleDiamonds and Rust: Jeff Buckley – Grace
Sons of legendary singer-songwriters are traditionally crippled by the expectation to produce and live up to the musical genius of their more illustrious fathers – witness Julian Lennon‘s awful pop of...
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