Labi Siffre has issued a cease-and-desist order to Tommy Robinson over his use of ‘(Something Inside) So Strong’ at a recent rally. The song featured prominently at the “unite the kingdom” rally in central London on September 13, which was organised by the far-right...
“Let’s start at the beginning, shall we?” The buzz of expectant chatter in the auditorium turns to cheers as the room fills with the magnificent racket of The Mekons’ 1978 single, “Where Were You”, clattering out as intro music, and as a reminder of...
The Futureheads have announced details of a new festive album ‘Christmas’ and an accompanying UK tour. The Sunderland indie band will release their first ever holidays-themed album on November 21. It will be comprised largely of reinterpretations of yuletide classics, as well as two...
An investigation has been launched after a sheriff’s deputy appeared to pepper spray a Turnstile fan during a show in Richmond. The Baltimore band played at the Virginia city’s Brown’s Island venue on Wednesday (September 24), and as is customary at their shows, they...
Björk has joined the ‘No Music For Genocide’ campaign, making her back catalogue unavailable on streaming services in Israel. The new campaign is a cultural boycott initiative encouraging artists and rights-holders to pull their music from streaming platforms in Israel in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza....
Sleep Token played a haunted version of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’ in Philadelphia this week – watch footage below. The London masked metallers are currently midway through a US arena tour and they stopped off at Philadelphia’s Xfinity Mobile Arena on Wednesday...
When James Brown came to Nashville in 1979 to record vocals for “It’s Too Funky In Here”, he received an unexpected invitation. Country star Porter Waggoner asked him to stop by the Grand Ole Opry – not as an audience member, but as a...
A 30-song triple album of mostly mellow consolation It was novelist and critic John Berger who first posited that “calm is a form of resistance”. Who knows if Jeff Tweedy was channelling that sentiment while creating the gentle behemoth that is Twilight Override, but...
Though Spain are known for their lethargic pace, this wasn’t always Josh Haden’s style. He’d previously been singer and bassist for Treacherous Jaywalkers, a punk act signed in the late ’80s to SST that he now describes as “boundlessly energetic, in a negative way.”...
His journey was meteoric Somewhere around the close of the 1950s, a 16-year-old Ethiopian boy arrived at Lindisfarne College, a boarding school in the Wrexham countryside. The young Mulutu Astatke had come to North Wales to earn a qualification in aeronautical engineering. But around...
