How Kate Bush started the “no phones” at concerts movement
Kate Bush’s landmark return in 2014 saw her implement a strict no-phones policy.
Features Archives: 09/2023
How Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ changed guitar playing forever
A game-changing moment for popular culture and the guitar.
Yukio Mishima: the man above David Bowie’s Berlin bed
“Continually shedding his ‘own identity’ and very consciously putting on one mask after another.”
The Alternative Album Chart: The best new indie albums this week
Join us as we note the best new indie and alternative albums this week.
Unlucky For Some: The 13 most underrated drummers in rock music right now
A collection of criminally underrated players doing something fresh.
Who is Lewis? The mysterious musician who simply disappeared
Lewis remained a ghost, a lost figure to the shadows of mystery.
When J. Edgar Hoover went to war with rock and roll: “Presley Fan Clubs that degenerate into sex orgies”
The dawn of the culture wars.
John Cooper Clarke on touring America in the footsteps of Bob Dylan: “I think that’s my favourite album, all told, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’”
“He did it for long enough, that protest schtick.”