Ballard: Bloody Catchy Indeed
British multi-instrumentalist Darren Riley has been playing for 25 years now and has finally put out his first EP and LP as Ballard (clicky clicky). We're awfully glad he...
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Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review
Julie Burchill finds little to enjoy in a life of a cold-blooded conservative who posed as a red-hot rebelYou can't always get what you want: the title of one of the Roll...
→ 21 October 2012 12.04am — Comment on this
Blog jam: Retro Man
Twice a week we invite independent bloggers to tell us about what they do. Today, a site from a UK old-school romanticistWho are you and what's your blog called?I'm Steve...
→ 27 August 2012 4.21pm — Comment on this
The Who! Kinks! Muse! NBC's Axed Olympic Performances! WATCH HERE!!!
Don't worry disgruntled American Olympic viewers!! NBC may have failed at portraying the London 2012 Olympic Closing ceremonies in alll it's epic, musical glory, but we'v...
→ 13 August 2012 6.19pm — Comment on this
Olympics Closing Mutilated By NBC! #NBCFails!
Awww DUDES! NBC has been majorly criticized throughout their entire 2012 Olympic Games coverage, and THEN they go and cut half the Iconic British-musician STUFFED pie th...
→ 13 August 2012 4.40pm — Comment on this
Ray Davies - Ray Davies Pretends To Be Damon
Ray Davies claims to be Damon Albarn when people recognise him in the street The Kinks singer and guitarist tries to fool people into thinking he is actually the singer f...
→ 5 August 2012 4.00pm — Comment on this
Blur – review
Maida Vale Studios, LondonAfter Blur's 6 Music gig – the first of two shows they're playing for BBC radio tonight, to begin what they have suggested may be their la...
→ 5 August 2012 12.05am — Comment on this
Ray Davies: tour dates
Ray Davies is on tour right now. He wil be playing in the UK and Ireland before setting off to North America and Japan for a string of dates with Bill Shanley and The 8...
→ 18 June 2012 12.03pm — Comment on this
Julien Temple - Julien Temple's The Kinks Film Gets Support
British filmmaker Julien Temple has been given the green light to turn the story of The Kinks into a new musical movie Bbc Films officials are backing the project titled ...
→ 28 March 2012 1.26am — Comment on this
Old music: Ronnie Lane – The Poacher
He was a city boy, but Ronnie Lane's solo music evokes nothing so much as his love of the English countrysideSome musicians simply seem to "belong" to certain cities. For...
→ 15 March 2012 11.40am — Comment on this
Wednesday Spotlight: fun.
When our parents were growing up, "pop" music was the norm. For the most part, it was really good too. Besides the obvious Beatles and Beach Boys catalogs, there were als...
→ 22 February 2012 8.41pm — Comment on this
Michael Davis obituary
Bass guitarist with the influential Detroit hard-rock band the MC5The bass guitarist Michael Davis, who has died of liver failure aged 68, joined Detroit's seminal rock b...
→ 19 February 2012 10.16pm — Comment on this
Old music: The Zombies – She's Not There
You hear a song in the background during a bar scene in a movie. Next thing, you're in loveIn the mid 70s, I knew nothing about the Zombies other than that they had been ...
→ 31 January 2012 10.13am — Comment on this
411 Music Ten Deep 01.27.12 : The Top 10 Songs About Girls
From the Rolling Stones' "Angie" and Eric Clapton's "Layla" to "Lola" by the Kinks, the Ramones' "Judy Is A Punk" and more, 411's Christopher Bell breaks down the top 10 ...
→ 27 January 2012 7.02am — Comment on this
This Week's Interesting Music Releases - December 27th, 2011
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtrack is the highlight of the year's smallest music release list. The only other new release I can re...
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