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Blondie interview: “Innovation is probably our greatest strength”
Generally a band determined to look forward, even Blondie can’t help revisiting their past when faced with a long-planned, gigantic boxset marking their imperial first phase. With Debbie Harry, Chris Stein…
Making Depeche Mode’s Music For The Masses
We revisit the Mode’s game changer – an adventurous, hedonistic drive into unchartered territory that brought them both critical and commercial acclaim… There’s only so long you can play the…
Andy Taylor’s cancer diagnosis revealed at Duran Duran’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction
Duran Duran were inducted in the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame last night (November 5), but a much-anticipated reunion with Andy Taylor was unable to go ahead as the…
Ricky Ross interview: Walking back to happiness
When Covid derailed Deacon Blue’s 2020 plans, Ricky Ross stayed home and made a solo record, Short Stories Vol.2. But he’s also got a longer tale to tell, though, in…
The Lowdown – Nile Rodgers
Before disco became a dirty word, Nile Rodgers and Chic got the world dancing with their irresistible grooves… then funk’s number one “chucker” evolved into the greatest pop Svengali of…
William Orbit interview
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…
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…