Author: Lucy Harbron Archives: 07/2025

Bob Dylan - Pete Seeger - Split

The reason Bob Dylan fell out with Pete Seeger

A burned bridge.

Jul 10, 2025

Gina Birch - Trouble - 2025

Gina Birch – ‘Trouble’ album review: Greatness and gratuitous production

Interesting at least.

Jul 10, 2025

Suede - 1990s

Why did Suede need to change their band name?

A reluctant rebrand.

Jul 10, 2025

What were the five best-selling Britpop singles of the 1990s

What was the first Britpop single?

The start of it all.

Jul 10, 2025

Linda Ronstadt - 1980's - Singer - Musician

The Linda Ronstadt song bubbling with the “purest expression of male vanity”

Pathetic.

Jul 9, 2025

Tom Petty. Faengslet, Horsens, Denmark - 2012

The song Tom Petty said was “too light” to record

A classic musician insecurity.

Jul 9, 2025

Paul McCartney - John Lennon - Ringo Starr - George Harrison - 1963 - The Beatles

Why John Lennon thought The Beatles were held back: “We were performers”

Sellouts?

Jul 9, 2025

Leonard Cohen - Nick Cave - Split

How Leonard Cohen gave the world Nick Cave

A lineage.

Jul 9, 2025

Jarvis Cocker - 2022

‘Something Changed’: the perfection of Pulp’s simple love song

A love song for the casual love story.

Jul 8, 2025

The Hollies, Radiohead and Lana Del Rey- The line between inspiration and robbery

The Hollies, Radiohead and Lana Del Rey: The line between inspiration and robbery

A chain of hypocritical lawsuits.

Jul 8, 2025

Leonard Cohen - 1968 - Singer - Musician - Poet

A song so perfect Leonard Cohen thought it would be wrong to get rich from it: “Fortunately, the rights to it were stolen”

What do we make art for?

Jul 8, 2025

‘O'Brother, come be my keeper’- How community completed the collaboration between Ólafur Arnalds and the late Talos - 2025

‘O’Brother, come be my keeper’: How community completed the collaboration between Ólafur Arnalds and the late Talos

An album about life, not death.

Jul 8, 2025