Legendary Slovenian group Laibach return with their new EP LOVE IS STILL ALIVE, via Mute. The EP is a 40 minute country, dance and electronic masterpiece, featuring different versions of the song Love Is Still Alive. The original song is taken from Laibach’s soundtrack for the sci-fi action film Iron Sky: The Coming Race, and […]
Legendary Slovenian group Laibach return with their new EP LOVE IS STILL ALIVE, via Mute. The EP is a 40 minute country, dance and electronic masterpiece, featuring different versions of the song Love Is Still Alive. The original song is taken from Laibach’s soundtrack for the sci-fi action film Iron Sky: The Coming Race, and […]
Happy Tears is the debut album from 49th & Main. A duo known for combining sharp electronic, UKG and jazz-infused house with emotive indie and pop influenced songwriting. “I wish you knew the good old days while still in them” is the overriding sentiment of this eclectic album. It’s a powerful statement from an Irish […]
Camden Town, the arse-end of the sixties. Two struggling, unemployed actors decide some respite is in order and so depart their miserable flat for a week in the Lake District – one that will involve rain, booze, minimal supplies, a randy bull and an even randier Uncle Monty. Based on the real-life experiences of former […]
A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits – books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and […]
An insider’s take on the evolution and enduring legacy of the music that rocked the twentieth century. Memphis, 1954. New Orleans 1957. Philadelphia 1959. Liverpool 1962. San Francisco 1967. Detroit 1969. New York City 1975. London 1977. Los Angeles 1984 / Norway 1993. Seattle 1991. Rock and roll was birthed in basements and garages, radio […]
Set against the current climate of political unrest gripping the nation and the world, Jesse Jarnow’s Wasn’t That a Time sheds new light on the contributions of folk group the Weavers to the battle against the blacklist efforts of the ’50s and ’60s as well as their invaluable additions to popular American music. Although it most noticeably […]
The groundbreaking, enduringly influential artist Mark Stewart presents his eighth solo album ‘The Fateful Symmetry’, a vital new masterwork completed shortly before his untimely passing in April 2023. Across an illustrious career of pioneering music with The Pop Group, Mark Stewart & The Maffia and as a solo artist, Stewart has produced a seminal body […]
What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins and impact of punk music, political films, comedy, how Ireland […]
Arriving in California as a young boy in the early 1960s, Edward Van Halen and his brother Alex were ripe for the coming musical revolution. The sons of a Dutch, saxophone-playing father, the brothers discovered the Beatles, Cream and others, and once Eddie switched from drums to guitar it started to become apparent where the […]