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Released: 1973 The journey from rock to pop star and vice versa leaves scars alright – ask Bruce Springsteen – and for Elton John the process carried with it no less baggage. Produced b…

There was never any real chance of Fat Dog following up their 2024 debut Woof with anything that sounded much like it - repetition - and boredom - are pains that frontman Joe Love doesn't subscribe to. It's a way of thinking reflected in it's title - Cancel Me (I'm Tired) isn't so much a challenge to the outside world as an inner monologue using the phrase for motivation.

BT has agreed a rescue of the stricken broadband supplier through a pre-pack administration which will safeguard hundreds of jobs and be announced on Monday morning, Sky News understands.

Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson says he felt Israel were "trying to intimidate" his team amid allegations of spitting during Sunday's Nations League draw.

Released : 1990 Not everyone under 25 was a pill gobbling spider monkey in Britain at the beginning of the 90’s, but you’ll find it difficult to unearth much evidence to the contrary no…

Released: 2007 Confusion. What is it good for? Well, in the case of The Bronx the odd little misunderstanding makes the world go round. Firstly, they’re not from New York, but instead live 3,…

Released : 2016 Love songs used to be pop’s default lingua franca. Now that we find people and bodies long, long before any emotional attachment grows the real love song is the lust song, the…

“Bombarding the listener with pristine, bloody wake and sub-bass, it seemed designed specifically to be consumed amongst a crowd of three thousand wide-eyed, sweat soaked people on the verge …

Celtic's largest shareholder Dermot Desmond is targeted in a protest at the Alfred Dunhill Links golf tournament in St Andrews as tennis balls were thrown towards him.

More, always more new music. This month's list features Miranda Lambert, Placebo, The Mary Wallopers, Eels, The Oh Sees, Dragonflies, The Big Moon, Gans, Death From Above 1979, Eli "Paperboy" Reed, Nubiyan Twist, Hamish Hawk and many more.. Get the playlist here.

When Rob Burrow was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, captain and friend Kevin Sinfield started to run. He is still going in his memory

Released in 2010, Groove Armada’s sixth album Black Light was something of a rebirth; after more than decade of successfully riding hip-hop’s late 90’s renaissance and the chillou…

During the press cycle for Under The Spell of Joy, lead singer Bonnie Bloomgarden revealed it’s essence, it having been missed from the general notes released about their fourth album, one on…

If the heart of rock n’ roll is in Cleveland (Ohio), then surely the epicentre of abstract musical creativity at the moment is in the sleepy towns and villages on either side of the Pennines,…

Released: 2008 Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden as legend – a bit of their own, a bit of other people’s – would have it wrote their breakthrough number Kids as a joke whilst…

“Sam’s Town bore testament that singer Brandon Flowers had a new muse – the vast, bombastic, wrong, epic vista of his own country.”

“This is history, right here, right now” Noel Gallagher of all people knew how true that was. Stretched out across a Hertfordshire pasture in August 1996 were 125,000 of the 2.5 million people who’…

Released : 1982 Patience is a virtue that doesn’t always pay dividends, but the story of how Alan Rankine and Billy Mackenzie left Party Fears Two on hold for years after writing it one hungo…

Released: 2000 It’s (polluted) water long gone under the bridge now, but hell, if there was one record – a single piece of culture – which finally snapped the links between this c…

It's a bit of a stretch to maintain that for such a cock-obsessed movement Britpop was somehow a great emancipator as post punk had been, but it wasn't without it's prominent female fronted bands and although the biggest gobs got the biggest rewards, this more than niche presence made for much more than just an interesting counterpoint. Moreover, Elastica weren't having yer Beatles and yer Stones (Or yer Bowies for that matter).

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Released : 1991 What defines a “cult” album? is it that the artist responsible never saw fame or recognition whilst alive (i.e. Nick Drake), maybe it’s mechanics were notably ahea…

Released : 1996 By the mid-90’s it looked like we were truly in the age of the Superstar DJ’s. From The Prodigy to Leftfield via Massive Attack and Underworld, for a little while the an…

Released: 2022 Calling your post pandemic album Renaissance would for many artists suggest there was some kind of re-profiling to be done, but the title of Beyoncé’s follow up to 2016’s…

Released: 2022 What with all this talk of Artificial Intelligence n’ that, plagiarism is very much the enemy of creativity and the arts. So it comes with some difficulty to admit that somebod…

There’s no such thing as an album that’s a perfect 10 – but there those that are one notch below. The 9’s is an occasional series which explores some of those records. Released: 2016 About Eight ye…

10. Sleep - The Morrisist 9. Chat Pile - Same Rules 8. Anderson Paak & Cordae - Good Day 7. Fontaines D.C. - Marianne 6. Greg Freeman - Cahokia 5. Tinashe - Too Easy 4. Haruomi Hasuno - Note of Mothership 3. Kristin Hersh - Dark Eyed Junco 2. This is Lorelei - Billy Came Back 1.Beck - Ride Lonesome