The British version of college radio jangle pop gave us the endearingly misanthropic and maudlin Morrissey, whereas the American equivalent […]

The 60s marked the buckling of the ancien régime, the inception of an identifiable rock’n’roll youth culture, and the rise

Appetite for Destruction is one of the biggest selling debut albums in rock history, which is a mystery to me,

Prog rock – not for me, mate. As I mentioned in the review of So, the whiff of middle-aged, socially

I’m not into prog-rock – it carries the whiff of slightly overweight middle-aged men who hand paint small plastic models

Robert Smith, lead singer of goth rock band The Cure, put it like this: “Duran Duran (…) loved us, and

To continue the discussion from the Remain in Light review about classifying late 70s / early 80s music; are Tears

In the Remain in Light review, I suggested that the defining feature of new wave music is the synthesiser –

So what exactly is “new wave” music? And what is its relationship to this thing called “post-punk”? Am I expected