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The Rolling Stones were fucked up drug-addled minor royalty by 1972. They’d been ejected from the United Kingdom due to […]

Well, this is awkward. I’m two albums into the Rolling Stones’ so-called “classic run” and I’m already distinctly underwhelmed by

Fuck me, all those sixties guitar wankers going on and on and on about how the Rolling Stones, the Beatles,

I am only tangentially familiar with miserable, rain-drenched Scottish post-punk band the Jesus and Mary Chain because (a) they were

Annie Lennox long struck me as a strange proposition – a tall, pale, willowy, otherworldly, short-haired fierce-as-fuck Scottish ice queen,

I have always and will always object to the lumping together of R.E.M. and the Smiths. Yes, both bands purveyed

The number of world-bestriding rock bands generated by declining post-industrial British cities in the latter third of the 20th century

Rock music is a strange, unsettling cultural artefact in 2025. The majority of new rock albums are by bands whose