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…
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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…
Read enough of the bullshit that I write on this page and you\’ll start to see that when I talk about something I usually like to outline the route by which I arrived in the place where I found the Read more…
This is the Manic Street Preacher\’s masterpiece. I know a lot of people may prefer the work that came after Richey disappeared and Everything Must Go is a great album — even the ones after that have some winning moments. Read more…