Channelling spirituality and state-of-the-art electronica, Madonna laid herself bare emotionally, eschewed the headline-grabbing antics of her past and pulled off the mother of all comebacks with her mystical masterpiece from…
Mike Oldfield to revive Tubular Bells live this summer
Mike Oldfield’s iconic magnum opus, Tubular Bells, will be performed live at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London this summer, in a season of unique performances that are…
Album By Album: Sade
Shifting an astonishing 75 million albums worldwide, over the past four decades Sade have finessed their ‘quiet storm’ sound for the masses. By Steve Harnell Diamond Life Released 1984 Label…
Sananda Maitreya to release new album this March
Sananda Maitreya (AKA The Artist Formerly Known As Terence Trent D’Arby) will release his 12th studio album, Pandora’s PlayHouse, on 15 March 2021. The double album is released on his…
Soul II Soul announce rescheduled 2022 tour dates
Soul II Soul have announced rescheduled dates due to the global COVID-19 restrictions for their forthcoming Club Classics tour. They will embark on a 15-date UK tour in 2022 starting…
Sia to unveil directorial debut Music next month
Hollywood is littered with pop stars who have turned their hand to acting, but one thing that’s rare in tinseltown is for a pop star to have a go at…
The Pod Squad: Track By Track
We talk to presenters Dan Bull & Will Warren… What’s your podcast about? Each week we take a brilliant pop album and talk about it, yep, track by track. We…
Shakespears Sister: History In The Making
They were the idiosyncratic duo that threw glam rock, goth, B-movie kitsch, electro and art-pop into the blender to form an intoxicating stew. Now, as Shakespears Sister get the deluxe…
Sigue Sigue Sputnik Interview
In 1986, few bands were as controversial and confrontational as Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Now as their debut album Flaunt It gets an expansive 4CD reissue, Steve O’Brien speaks to its…
Forget Me Nots: ABC – How To Be A …Zillionaire!
ABC went through more personnel changes in the early 80s than their new wave counterparts did bottles of hairspray. But the lineup that fronted third album How To Be A…