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It launched the careers of Jesse Plemons and Michael B Jordan, and let its stars improvise in a way that was fresh and new. This show about smalltown US football was confident, trailblazing – and wond...

What’s been on my mind this past week …

The frontman of the underground metal pioneers Venom has died. Of course, he didn;t want to be an underground metal pioneer …

In 2017, I wrote an FT magazine cover story about Championship Manager/Football Manager, the game that makes its devotees obsessed with admin, and transformed real-world football scouting

The things that have been preoccupying me this week

It’s a measure of Geese’s rise – their flight? – that, on Thursday night, the social media accounts of End of the Road were receiving requests for refunds from ticket-holders stuck in traffic somewher...

Recorded just days before Otis Redding died in a plane crash, the funky tune has since been adored by soul, rock and hip-hop artists

Playing a sound rooted in 80s bands such as Witchfinder General and Pagan Altar, metal bands are once again gravitating towards dark folklore – but in a ‘Glastonbury crystal shop’ kind of way

Unplayed seven inches from my boxes are back, back, back – with two that it turns out I probably had heard before

Layla, Smoke on the Water and the like are now long past being the undisputed classics that all generations knew. So what would a radio station playing a new format of “Classic Rock” sound like?

George Madgwick has multiple tribunal rulings against him for unpaid wages

Four nights on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset, and lots of music

Today’s vintage transcript comes from Black Francis, conducted to promote Pixies’ 2019 album Beneath the Eyrie

Things that I didn’t get round to writing on Sunday because I had better things to do

From Waxahatchee and Florry in the US to Brown Horse and Little Grandad in the UK, a wave of young songwriters are reinvigorating the subgenre’s earnest emotion and twang

Some things that have been on my mind over the last 10 days or so

Christmas with the Quo, and how Dev Hynes’ dog’s death nearly ruined by Christmas, plus a great single from Basia Bulat

There comes a point in most bands’ lives at which their appeal has become too selective for them to sell out the venues they feel befit their status. The stadium band slips down to the arenas, the are...