Music – Page 2

Dried up Roses all turn to stone…

There are still questions about the (final?) disintegration of The Stone Roses in the summer of 2017.

Special Needs interview for the unpublished State of Play magazine [2019 re-edit]

Special Needs have been bubbling under the surface for some time now.

Lana Del Rey – ‘Love’, Lust for Life and Guilty Pleasures

There are few more disingenuous or faintly pathetic pop concepts than the Guilty Pleasure.

8 reasons even non-Beatles fans should watch their new feature-length doc

A Beatles film? In 2016? Why should anyone bother? Because, incredibly, there’s still plenty to say half a century on.

Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield: “I have no f**king Britpop regrets”

inals of the European Championships and capped off their Everything Must Go tour with a MASSIVE homecoming gig at Swansea’s Liberty Stadium.

5 greatest ever electronic records as picked by Luke Haines: From Hot Butter to Kraftwerk

Musician and author Luke Haines this week releases perhaps his most barmy and brilliant solo album yet.

Mansun’s Six: Paul Draper’s track-by-track breakdown on the greatest Britpop album you never heard

these Chester chaps got wrecked reading Winnie the Pooh and listening to Pink Floyd, ending up with Six, the greatest Brit-prog record that very few people have actually heard.

Nuthin’ but a Dre Thang: 13 essential Dr Dre classics to remind everyone why his new album is such a big deal

As predicted by Fiddy, Detox will never see the light of day. In its place, Dr Dre releases only his third solo studio album Compton tonight (and everybody’s celebratin’).