One of the first new tracks I shared this year was JW Francis’ ‘Gold‘ which also found him gracing the cover of my Must Hear Continue Reading

At one time in the distant-seeming past, DOC NYC was one of the highlights of any self-respecting nonfiction movie geek’s calendar. Sure, American Film Institute Continue Reading

“Rockit” by Herbie Hancock, an unlikely sound track in 1983, arrived as a completely tangential entry into the world of pop. But besides reaching the Continue Reading

On the 28 March 1977, while This Heat were recording their first radio session with producer Tony Wilson and engineer Dave Dade, the Sex Pistols Continue Reading

At the start of the century, in the UK at least, Travis were everywhere. Their brand of earnest, plangent indie rock was a soothing balm Continue Reading

Not much has changed for Kurt Wagner since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Nashville native spent most of his time in the house, Continue Reading

Bassist and composer Charles Mingus used to be a figure of controversy for ten different reasons, some political, some personal, and—though this all seems silly Continue Reading

London’s Tunng are the best band you still haven’t listened to, as since their 2003 inception, this collective have continued to build and folk and Continue Reading

If you’ve spent money on merchandise promoting your favorite sports team, logged hours discussing the summer blockbuster remake of a movie you and several other Continue Reading

Compared to the relatively capacious archival revelations of Can, a band with roughly comparable working practices, the posthumous pickings from This Heat have been cautiously Continue Reading

Electropop has many iterations, but possibly the most over-obsessed and tediously written about is the type that evokes the FM pop of the 1980s. Its Continue Reading

In Minsk, the bust of Felix Dzerzhinsky — founder of the KGB — still stands. On the Island of Tears, the deaths of 771 Belarusian Continue Reading