Why The Cars were the anti-Kiss: “We are not show business characters”
Less was more in a time of gaudy extremes.
Author: Andrew Clayman Archives: 12/2025
The Police song that typifies Sting’s “work backward” method
“Rock music is a sort of wonderful mongrel.”
How Ray Davies used painting as his springboard to songwriting
“The whole picture would take on a new image.”
A playlist of the unmistakable sounds of the Suzuki Omnichord
The educational toy that became a cult favourite of the pros.
How did Kim Deal respond to the Pixies’ anticlimactic disbandment in 1993?
“What was Charles supposed to do?”
Moscow Peace Festival: The madness of the ‘Russian Woodstock’
Hair metal’s big moment in the last days of the USSR.
Why Elvis Costello thought “nobody will remember Michael Jackson” in the future
“He’ll be like a forgotten kind of icon.”
How Gary Busey became the unlikely lead in ‘The Buddy Holly Story’
“I don’t remember ‘me’ in the film.”
‘Bring the Noise’: Why Public Enemy’s collab with Anthrax was every bit as important as Run DMC’s with Aerosmith
“Beat is the father of your rock n’ roll”.