I want to come out in support of Amy Winehouse. She is rock and roll. The naysayers? A bunch of cunts — seriously, an absolute, twenty-four carat guaranteed group of chuff-boxes. From the opening track of her first album through Read more…
Category: Rebellious Jukebox
Jimi, Jim, Janice, Brian Jones and Kurt Cobain — all members of the 27 club. At one point it was an idiotic belief that I\’d be joining them: thank god that didn\’t work out. I can sing but I don\’t Read more…
How big might Blind Melon have become if Shannon Hoon their frontman hadn\’t died? Change group name and change singer name and it seems you have to ask this question too much. I feel like I got in on the Read more…
You really have to fight sometimes to maintain how cool The Doors are, and that sometimes strikes me as odd. But then you have to consider that they hardly have an unsullied reputation — Morrison did as much to damage Read more…
From every relationship that I have ever had I have taken away something at the end of it that has become an integral part of who I am. It can be a book, a film, or some music. I got Read more…
I think I discovered Motherlovebone just after Andrew Wood had died. I came across them at the same time as I started getting into Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney. It was the nineties anyway, I know that much. I\’m Read more…
I used to swap mixtapes with people — or sometimes I would give them a tape with two different albums — one each side; back before CD\’s led to bloated epics that laughed at the idea of being 45 minutes Read more…
You can\’t really have a section called Rebellious Jukebox without having the person who coined the phrase present and correct. The Fall are a phenomenon: The Fall are Mark E Smith — one of the most original lyricists and vocalists Read more…
A vehicle for Cathal Coughlan\’s intelligence driven bile — the Fatima Mansions could shift from smooth voiced crooning to a visceral car-crash of noise at the drop of a hat. They deserved to be much bigger than they ever were Read more…
The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof, Black Box Recorder, The English Travelling Wilburys, Luke Haines solo artiste — the vehicles which Haines has used to get his music out there each have their own character and their own aesthetic, but they all Read more…