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Lost & Found: The B-52s – Whammy!
After the kitsch triumph of their eponymous debut album from 1979 (which contained keynote track Rock Lobster) and its follow-up Wild Planet (1980), by 1983 Athens, Georgia, five-piece The B-52’s…
Pop Art: Vince Clarke
Vince Clarke has a unique and consistent sound, but the ways in which his recorded body of work has been visually represented varies wildly. His releases have been packaged by…
Sananda Maitreya shares video for new song Pie
Last week, the Artist Formerly Known As Terence Trent D’Arby, Sananda Maitreya, released his 12th studio album, Pandora’s PlayHouse, and now the singer has shared his latest video from the…
Belinda Carlisle takes on 2021 with 16-date UK tour
Belinda Carlisle has been at the forefront of American pop for more than four decades and this year, under the umbrella of ‘Decades’, three of the singer’s musical anniversaries will…
Propaganda: Do You Want To Know A Secret?
In this article from 2017 we traced the extraordinary story of the debut album by Propaganda, A Secret Wish, a perfectly indulgent record that, despite nearly destroying the band, is…
Boxset review – EMF 30th Anniversary Boxset
Self-released through a Kickstarter campaign, EMF’s career-spanning £60 boxset puts many bigger-budget reissues to shame. It houses vinyl editions of all three albums, new rarities compilation Flipsides And Bona Fides…
Lost & Found: Fuzzbox – Big Bang!
Fuzzbox, or We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It!!, were for everyone in 1989. Girls loved their swaggering brand of colourful feminism, boys just thought they looked fantastic. …
a-ha: Living A Three Boys’ Adventure Tale
a-ha are the dark, dolorous boy band, One Direction raised on Joy Division and Ingmar Bergman. Not a boy band at all then – just the greatest exponents of…
Classic Pop Presents 1981 is now on sale!
Of all the years in pop music, 1981 was one of the most pivotal. A surge in new technology prompted a sonic revolution with synthesizers, drum machines and samplers, opening…
John Foxx: Howling Into The Void
In 1980, John Foxx predicted a terrifying dystopian future with his incredible synthetic masterpiece Metamatic. The future he predicted is now here, and it’s worse – far worse –…