Category: Records
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They were the band who gazed on Waterloo sunsets, lazed on sunny afternoons in the summer time, and shared the delightful contents of their autumn almanac with their listeners. But on no other album is their quintessentially English pop-rock more obvious than on 1968’s The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society. Written after singer…
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2010 was a bit of a mixed bag: it was the year that brought us musical sensations such as Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs and Kings of Leon’s Come Around Sundown, but it was also the year that Matt Cardle butchered Biffy Clyro’s ‘Many of Horror’, that Lady Gaga further descended into musical madness, and that Guns N’ Roses…
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The début album from heavy metal’s latest supergroup featuring members of Anthrax, Every Time I Die and Fall Out Boy.
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The new Foals release ‘Blue Blood’ is a solid ‘album track’ that is unlikely to make waves for the band as a single.
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Bloc Party’s lead singer’s back with a new sound, but will it be a hit?
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Punk jackets, red hair and no drummer…what have the New Jersey rockers got in store for us this time?
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Iggy Pop, godfather of punk. This is a phrase you’ll no doubt have heard countless times. Idiot was released in 1977, the ‘year that punk broke’. What’s funny then is that this album is pretty far removed from the typical punk stylings of The Clash or Sex Pistols, and even further removed from the sound…
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The Bluetones’ new single is full of warm and mellow California-style countrified harmonies. Like Beachwood Sparks and Goldrush, their influences draw from Neil Young, the late Beach Boys, and The Yardbirds, among others. Lyrically, the song is deep, questioning yourself and hanging onto your inner purity and values when you are in the midst of…
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The EDGE take a look at the latest musical offering from Winchester born folk-punkster Frank Turner
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There is such a sense of cohesion on the record it makes it almost impossible not to listen all the way through once you play track one
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The EDGE take a look at rap’s shining light, the man who can bring the genre back from its lazy depths
