The worst song in the world, according to Steve Coogan: “It’s what stupid people dance to at weddings”
“There’s no substance to it.”
From The Vault Archives: 02/2024
The music that Richard Hell grew up listening to
“I wanted to make an album of the kind of music that originally inspired me.”
Why The Beatles thanked the inventor of the sewing machine at the end of ‘Help!’
It makes sense in its own way.
Daniel Lanois on the two best albums he ever produced
The organic sounds of emotional rock and roll.
The album Alvvays consider to be “perfect”
“Otherworldly beauty and also menacing at the same time.”
Lorde on the Don Henley lyric that asks “the most incredible fucking question of the universe”
A songwriter she strives to match.
The band that Geddy Lee called his “far and away” favourite
“We really tried to emulate [them] in the early days of Rush.”
Slash names “one of the best rock and roll guitar players of all time”
“He’s just got such an understated but great, nasty way of playing.”