The producer of landmark music for Madonna, All Saints, Blur, Pink and Britney Spears, maverick musician William Orbit enjoyed an influential career as an ambient pioneer, classical reinventor and rave mainstay. Then…
HiFi Sean and David McAlmont share new single and album news
HiFi Sean (ex-Soup Dragons) and David McAlmont have announced a new album, Happy Ending, out 3 February 2023 through Plastique Recordings. The duo have also released the album’s lead-off single,…
NOW announce new boxset, NOW Yearbook ’80-’84: The Final Chapter
NOW have announced a new boxset, NOW Yearbook ’80-’84: The Final Chapter. The new collection is available as an 81-track Special Edition 4CD set housed in ‘hardback’ book packaging, including…
Popscene – Yacht Rock
What is it? Unusually, the term ‘yacht rock’ was only coined well after the genre’s 70s and early-80s heyday. At the time when this FM-friendly stew of super-varnished production, breezy…
Spotlight – It Bites: Once Around The World
The 80s pop-rock revival wasn’t all Genesis and Marillion – It Bites also hit bit with Calling All The Heroes and their supremely confident second studio album, Once Around The…
The gospel according to Moby
In 2018, Moby released Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt, a return to the soulful electronica of the seminal LP Play. That year, he told us what inspired the record,…
Pulp confirm reunion shows for 2023
Pulp have confirmed that they will reunite for a series of live shows in 2023. “Three months ago, we asked,’What exactly do you do for an encore?’” singer Jarvis Cocker…
Andy Taylor shares new song Man’s A Wolf To A Man
Former Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor has shared a new song, Man’s A Wolf To A Man. Taylor, who is to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of…
The resurrection of Alexander O’Neal
Alexander O’Neal was sacked by Prince, only to find fame and lose it all in an orgy of decadence. But in 2018, he was back with a new album, Resurrected.…
Paul Heaton interview: Our friend in the north
In 2022, Paul Heaton celebrated his 60th birthday in unique fashion by putting £60,000 behind the bar in pubs across the country. Now back with his latest album alongside Jacqui…