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It’s Immaterial interview: Getting their house in order
In 2020 It’s Immaterial released their first new album since 1992. That year, members John Campbell and Jarvis Whitehead opened up to us about their three-decade struggle to complete it……
Album By Album – Whitney Houston
Whitney’s powerful pipes and model looks saw her become a true music icon… Whitney Houston, 1985 When you consider that Whitney Houston’s discography contains some of the greatest love songs of all…
Bananarama interview: “This is the music we like. We are who we are”
Bananarama returned in July 2022 with Masquerade, an album as defiantly pop as anything Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin have ever made. As the pair celebrate 40 years together,…
Classic Album: OMD – Architecture & Morality
Merging the machinations of German electronica with warm Merseyside melodies and otherworldly choral samples, on their third album, Architecture & Morality, OMD struck the perfect balance between experimentalism and commercial…
Being Human – Karl Bartos interview
Classically trained musician Karl Bartos was a member of Kraftwerk on a staggering run of albums from Radio-Activity to Electric Café. Having previously stayed silent about his former band, his…
Coming Round Again – when the 60s met the 80s
Proving that form is temporary yet class is permanent, a whole host of major 60s acts had an unexpected career resurgence as bona fide chart stars in the 80s… By…
Making Annie Lennox’s Diva
Classic Pop takes a deep dive into Annie Lennox’s multi-award-winning solo debut, Diva, the 90s album that reaffirmed her status as a soul-pop diva, proving she needed nobody to prop…
Clare Grogan interview: ‟I didn’t want people to think that this was a nostalgia trip”
Back with their first new studio album in almost 40 years – and with the estimable Bernard Butler on board, too – Clare Grogan tells us how Altered Images’ Mascara…
Inside Love And Money’s Strange Kind Of Love
They didn’t score any major hits, but Love And Money remain one of the most fondly-remembered Scottish bands of their era. Their sleeper classic from 1988, Strange Kind Of Love,…
Popscene – Sophisti-pop
We grab our finest threads for the slickest of musical flavours… What is it? Like glam before it, it’s difficult to separate sophisti-pop from the clothes it’s sung in.…