Returning to live gigs
When Covid rampaged through the world like a Viking raid of death-cult realtors, the world was suddenly shorn of live music
Luke Haines
Monday
Tuesday
What if the Beatles never broke up?
Peter Jackson’s new movie shows fans everywhere would swoon, but maybe they should just let it be
Thursday
Sounds of Christmas past
I tend to associate Christmas music with the records I received as gifts when I was a kid
Tuesday
I’m turning Japanese
In the Eighties, Japan had prosperity, optimism, loads of bizarre porn and the solace of technological gadgetry
Wednesday
Confessions of a hype artist
Where there’s pop, there’s hype — and there’s nothing wrong with that
Sunday
The great lost Beatles album
It’s a real shame the Christmas flexis have not had a proper, all-on-one album release
Thursday
Back to my Toots
Farewell to the father of reggae
Tuesday
‘All rock ’n’ roll starts and ends with Lou Reed’
Our rock critic has made an album with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. Here he explains how…
Wednesday
Land of hope and Victoria: The Kinks’ lost empire
By 1969, Churchill was dead and the Kinks, as an album group, were toast
Sunday
Christmas crackers: the tragic soul of Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole had an instant pocket pop career. Her family, she said, were like ‘the black Kennedys’; and look how the Kennedys turned out
Christmas music is hell on earth…
…apart from one song
Wednesday
Audio blitzkrieg
‘Motörhead, remember me now’
Saturday
Grandpa, who were the Rolling Stones, and why?
Raising the goblet of rock
Tuesday
Buzzcocks: the power-pop and the glory
Another Music In A Different Kitchen and Love Bites Deluxe LPs by Buzzcocks reviewed
Friday
They say it’s your birthday? It’s my birthday too, yeah!
The White Album is reissued at 50
Thursday
The Kinks’s meditation upon nostalgia, class and loss of Empire sounds like a prophecy of Brexit Britain
There is only one thing wrong with the 50 th Anniversary edition of this wonderful album, and that is that it is all too prescient
Thursday
1968 and all that | 12 July 2018
From our UK edition
Unless you have been sleeping under a barricade or a pile of Molotov cocktails it will not have escaped your attention that we — that is, a few broadsheets and BBC4 — have been having a good old think about the events of 1968. When student rioting brought France to its knees and the revolution
Wednesday
I’m never happier than when an arts show on TV is cancelled
From our UK edition
I am, to paraphrase myself, ‘a freethinking middle aged rock ‘n’ roller, still on the toilet circuit hoping it’s a good walk-up.’ Actually, unless I live to be 99 the bit about being middle aged is rather optimistic. Tomorrow it is my half century birthday, but today I hit the road with my Scottish tour
