Features Archives: 05/2025

Prince - Controversy - 1981

Prince – ‘Controversy’

“Let your body be free.”

May 31, 2025

Anthony Kiedis - Red Hot Chilli Peppers - 1995

Indecent exposure, underage girls, and sexual battery: The uncomfortable truth about Anthony Kiedis

It needs to be said.

May 31, 2025

Black Is the Color (of My True Love’s Hair) How Patty Waters turned a folk song into a waking nightmare

‘Black Is the Color (of My True Love’s Hair)’: How Patty Waters turned a folk song into a waking nightmare

Chilling.

May 31, 2025

We're fighting different wars- Five Wolf Alice songs about emotional malaise

“We’re fighting different wars”: Five Wolf Alice songs about emotional malaise

Nothing and everything.

May 31, 2025

Aretha Franklin - Singer - 1967

Why was the 1960s the golden age of cover songs?

Keeping up with the churn.

May 31, 2025

Five easy masterpieces- An introduction to Motown Records

‘What’s Going On’: Five tracks that broke the Motown mould

Revolutionary tracks.

May 31, 2025

Kevin Ayers- The bizarre life of Britain’s psychedelic hero

‘Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes’: the Kevin Ayers masterpiece that captured the hippie counterculture

A timeless classic.

May 30, 2025

10 masterpieces fans never gave the time of day

10 masterpieces fans never gave the time of day

The forgotten classics.

May 30, 2025

From Nick Cave to Steely Dan- 10 songs that would make great movies

10 classic songs that should be made into movies

Songs with a story.

May 30, 2025

MJ Lenderman - Juliette Boulay - 2025

MJ Lenderman live review: a beast of a rock show, plain and simple

A star is here.

May 30, 2025

10 albums that made yacht rock sound amazing

10 albums that made yacht rock sound amazing

Quality beyond the Hawaiian shirts.

May 30, 2025

Armenia, spiritualism and up-state splits- the mystic piano music of Willem Nyland

Armenia, spiritualism and up-state splits: the mystic piano music of Willem Nyland

An enigmatic figure.

May 29, 2025