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David Burke chats to Candi Staton as she plans to release her 30th album, Unstoppable, which proves to be a fitting title… Candi Staton is set to release Unstoppable, her 30th…
New Prince Black Album Pressing Resurfaces!
One of the five factory sealed copies of Prince’s The Black Album discovered in December 2017 resurfaces at $40,000 Scheduled for release by Warner Bros. Records on 8 December, 1987,…
Review: Steven Jones & Logan Sky – The Electric Eye
As with Hans Und Lieselotte, released earlier this year, The Electric Eye finds Logan Sky (keyboardist in Visage’s final line-up) and Steven Jones further refining their once unmodified penchant for…
Issue 46 of Classic Pop magazine is on sale now!
Get your copy in-store for just £5.99 – use our storefinder. The single issue is available online for £6.99 here. Alternatively, you can buy a digital issue here. Available from…
Review: The Internet – Hive Mind
“A notional entity consisting of a large number of people who share their knowledge or opinions with one another, regarded as producing… collective intelligence.” So states the Oxford English Dictionary…
Exclusive: Unreleased Yazoo BBC Session – Listen now
Listen now to an unreleased BBC session of Yazoo’s Too Pieces, taken from the the forthcoming box set. Yazoo (Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke) have shared an unreleased BBC Session of…
Review: Jake Shears – Jake Shears
Listening to his solo debut’s opening track – cunningly titled Introduction – it would be easy to assume that Jake Shears’ goal was to pursue the same instincts that led…
Stepping Out of the Shadow: Dannii Minogue interview
Fifteen years ago, Dannii Minogue reinvented herself as a club scene icon with Neon Nights, a classic of the genre which bears favourable comparison to big sis Kylie’s Fever and Madonna’s Confessions…
Art of the Album: U2 – Achtung Baby
After U2 hit a creative impasse with 1988’s Rattle & Hum, the band reinvented themselves by embracing dance culture for a bold change of musical direction. The resulting album was the…
Classic Album: Massive Attack – Blue Lines
A dance album you couldn’t dance to, a club classic for when the clubs closed – Blue Lines by Massive Attack truly redefined notions of artist, group and genre. Classic Pop explores…