...There’s the gauzy, ethereal space inhabited by Cocteau Twins, Slowdive and Lush. But there’s a slightly different flavour of music that c

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Ahead of Sheffield's ultimate Kylie quiz later this month, we have an exclusive extract from a new book about how Australia's greatest export came to redefine 21st-century pop.

Dance music historian Matt Anniss revisits Pet Shop Boys 1986 remix album 'Disco', exploring its place in the evolution of the remix album - and the English synth-pop duo's catalogue

Eternal return, boulder-shouldering and tough love in the pub.

The past week spent reading Cathi Unsworth’s Season Of The Witch: The Book Of Goth has been an absolute revelation to me. My only slight not

Pre-Fabs Mansfield combo The Fentones get a glancing mention in Bob Stanley’s magnificent new book The Shadows: The Definitive Story. They w

It’s autumn 1989 and I’m in a state of mild confusion. This being my first ever Wednesday in the Welsh market town of Lampeter, I’ve walked

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In the Rough Trade pop-up store at this year’s Green Man festival, there were about six boxes given over to second-hand records. I picked up

Rejected by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, the minimalist dance-pop opus would become the defining song of Kylie’s career. And, a quarter of a century later, it hasn’t lost its capacity to burrow its way into y...

Our guide to the month’s crucial electronic LPs.

Welcome to the tenth in an occasional series which sees my gumshoe poppelganger Jim Bangerac sing the praises of a wonderful song from a not

Do you ever think about how it works when your life flashes before you? Do you imagine something akin to when you’re rewinding a recorded pr

The fields are barren, glaciers are melting, whole landscapes are burning – it’s not looking good out there, is it? It’s little wonder, given all of this, that there is a real shared cultural sense of...

The fields are barren, glaciers are melting, whole landscapes are burning – it’s not looking good out there, is it? It’s little wonder, given all of this, that there is a real shared cultural sense of...

This one was on the wall at Alan’s record shop in East Finchley and I clocked it straight away. I’d never seen the Jeneive’s label before –