When Covid rampaged through the world like a Viking raid of death-cult realtors, the world was suddenly shorn of live music
By Luke Haines
Peter Jackson’s new movie shows fans everywhere would swoon, but maybe they should just let it be
By Luke Haines
I tend to associate Christmas music with the records I received as gifts when I was a kid
By Luke Haines
In the Eighties, Japan had prosperity, optimism, loads of bizarre porn and the solace of technological gadgetry
By Luke Haines
Where there’s pop, there’s hype — and there’s nothing wrong with that
By Luke Haines
It’s a real shame the Christmas flexis have not had a proper, all-on-one album release
By Luke Haines
Our rock critic has made an album with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. Here he explains how…
By Luke Haines
By 1969, Churchill was dead and the Kinks, as an album group, were toast
By Luke Haines
Natalie Cole had an instant pocket pop career. Her family, she said, were like ‘the black Kennedys’; and look how the Kennedys turned out
By Luke Haines
Another Music In A Different Kitchen and Love Bites Deluxe LPs by Buzzcocks reviewed
By Luke Haines
The White Album is reissued at 50
By Luke Haines
