Tom Hannan recounts the tale of My Bloody Valentine as the band release highly anticipated remastered versions their most celebrated works.
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Put Record Store Day releases on eBay and you’re stealing from kids with cancer
Ebay record profiteers are an irritation – but it’s particularly rage-inducing when they’re profiting from the Teenage Cancer Trust’s fundraising efforts.
Never Content: Air France announce split
“We are restless people, always wanting to try different things, never able to let a song be.”
Heard, and Taken Seriously: Ephebiphobia and The School of Rockupy
Jude Clarke speaks to Jamie Kelsey-Fry of Occupy London to find out more about the School of Rockupy project.
Plan B is not your saviour
‘Ill Manors’ is being lauded as a generational anthem – but Plan B’s liberalism isn’t going to save us.
There Is A Buzz That Never Goes Off: listen out for Tinnitus Awareness Week
Tinnitus Awareness Week aims to build knowledge of the condition amongst health professionals – but we should also encourage understanding amongst those who suffer or are at risk of tinnitus.
The End Of Fame: Studio announce split after 10 years
“Try making a ring tone out of this, you bastards.” Studio, the creators of some of the most essential and forward thinking progressive dance music of our generation have announced their split after ten years.
A Christmas message from Fairewell
“Christmas will never be routinely accused of being ‘hardcore for people who don’t like hardcore’ or be criticised for using valve emulation software on it’s guitar tracks. It’s beyond all that, and when people have a go at it I just stop listening.”
Commodified Authenticity: faux-folk and the manufacture of shared experience
Faux-folk packages up folk ‘authenticity’ and sells it back to us. It’s more than an irritation – it’s a symptom of capital’s dangerous powers of co-option.
L’Histoire de Serge Gainsbourg et Melody Nelson
Celebrating 40 years since its original release, Serge Gainsbourg’s seminal concept album Histoire de Melody Nelson is remastered, repackaged and reissued. Francine Gorman takes a look at the how the album came to be.
