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Author: Tom Phelan Archives: 05/2026

Bleachers - everyone for ten minutes - 2026

Bleachers – ‘Everyone for Ten Minutes’ album review: A chore of a record too afraid to shake off trite indie-pop formulas

What’s the fuss?

Tom Phelan
May 22, 2026
'What's Goin' On' at 55- When Marvin Gaye pulled Motown into the album era

‘What’s Goin’ On’ at 55: When Marvin Gaye pulled Motown into the album era

“I wanted them to take a look at what was happening in the world”.

Tom Phelan
May 21, 2026
There's something happening here- The 10 most famous venues of Los Angeles’ counterculture

“There’s something happening here”: The 10 most famous venues of Los Angeles’ counterculture

“I’d be safe and warm / If I was in LA.”

Tom Phelan
May 21, 2026
Porky- vinyl hero and dead wax specialist -

Porky: vinyl hero and dead wax specialist

“A Porky prime cut.”

Tom Phelan
May 20, 2026
What is an 8-track?

What is an 8-track?

‘Clunk!’

Tom Phelan
May 20, 2026
Can a bulldozer be a musical instrument? The legacy of noise music in Japan

Smashed walls and Molotov cocktails: When a Japanese noise band destroyed a venue with an excavator

“Nobody got hurt…”

Tom Phelan
May 19, 2026
Paul McCartney - John Lennon - Casbah Coffee Club - The Beatles - The Quarrymen

The Nerk Twins: John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s one-night only acoustic duo in 1960

“They were a load of bloody rubbish…”

Tom Phelan
May 19, 2026
Charts - Official Charts - Gold - Platinum - Music - General - Single

Three songs, three number ones: the breakthrough British band who dominated 1973

Rock royalty.

Tom Phelan
May 19, 2026
Levon Helm - The Band - Musician - 1971

The three drummers who inspired Levon Helm the most: “What rhythm could really do”

“It was about making the thing swing, making people move.”

Tom Phelan
May 19, 2026
Steve Vai - Frank Zappa - Split

The song that got Steve Vai into Frank Zappa’s band: “A superior musical intelligence”

“Going to work for Frank was an education…”

Tom Phelan
May 19, 2026
Pixies - Border - Far Out Magazine

“Get out of my way”: the 1993 hit song that broke up the Pixies

The straw that broke the caribou’s bones.

Tom Phelan
May 18, 2026
John Lennon - Sting - Split

“A mountain disappears”: the shocking moment Sting found out about the death of John Lennon

“The landscape changes…”

Tom Phelan
May 18, 2026

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