SPONSORED POST Pet Shop Boys have announced new 2023 dates for their critically acclaimed and sold-out tour, ‘Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live’, with tickets available now. The new tour dates…
Top 20 80s sampling hits
Mining the past to make the music of the future, these singles used 80s sampling to fine effect From the prominence of the Fairlight CMI and the rise in turntablism…
Teenage Kicks: Dave Stewart interview
One of the music world’s great adventurers, even by Dave Stewart’s standards his new project Ebony McQueen is ambitious: a movie with an accompanying triple-album boxset. It also allows him…
New edition of Introducing The Hardline According To…
New spatial audio edition of Introducing The Hardline According To… released Sananda Maitreya is celebrating the 35th anniversary of his landmark debut album Introducing The Hardline According To… with a…
a-ha’s first new song in seven years, I’m In
a-ha are back with their first new music in seven years. I’m In is our first taster for their forthcoming album True North, which will be released later this year.…
The Cult announce brand new album and single
The Cult have announced the October 7th release of their new album, Under The Midnight Sun, produced by Tom Dalgety (Pixies, Ghost, Royal Blood) and coming out via Black Hill Records. They’ve…
Making George Michael’s Older
Inspired by the grief of losing his partner, the third album by George Michael, Older, was amongst the most powerful statements of his career… While the gap between Older and…
The Associates: “We were firing on all cylinders at the speed of light”
Post-punk pioneers the Associates transformed themselves into bona fide pop stars on 1982’s Sulk. Alan Rankine, Mike Hedges, Michael Dempsey and Martyn Ware take us inside their skewed masterwork… It’s…
The legends of Mark Hollis
Between 1998’s solo album and his death in 2019, Talk Talk singer Mark Hollis retreated into a reclusive, enigmatic silence. Aided by a new book and a documentary, we…
Al McKay talks Earth Wind & Fire Experience
Al McKay, ex of Earth Wind & Fire and now of Earth Wind & Fire Experience, talks to Dave Freak about his time in one of the biggest jazz-funk-pop bands…