When Ron and Russell Mael relocated from Los Angeles to the UK in 1973, they hit the pop world as Sparks. Their manager John Hewlett felt them better suited for » Read More
MUSIC
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June 19, 2026
2026 marks the 50th anniversary of punk’s breakthrough year: 1976 — the moment punk stopped being an underground murmur and became a global cultural shockwave. Fittingly, Chris Sullivan and Stephen » Read More
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May 20, 2026
Few bands have expanded the boundaries of popular music as profoundly as The Velvet Underground, nor have had such a lasting influence. Emerging in New York in 1965, the group » Read More
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March 20, 2026
From sleepy Seaford, UK to punk rock’s ground zero, Pamela Rooke (aka Jordan) is a force to be reckoned with. She’s experienced a lifetime of gay underground clubs, worked in » Read More
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March 13, 2026
Journey to the Center of the Cramps is a revised version of Dick Porter’s previous band biography penned in 2007, just two years before Lux’s untimely and unexpected death stopped » Read More
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March 11, 2026
While Michael “Mickey” Bradley’s Teenage Kicks: My Life as an Undertone was originally published in 2016, it’s been recently re-released, likely to coincide with the band’s 50th anniversary of Teenage » Read More
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August 20, 2025
Steely Dan, a group of musicians fronted by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, were a fixture on the radio in the 70’s and into the early 80’s. Their jazz-infused tunes » Read More
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March 12, 2025
A legendary export in Derry’s music history are The Undertones, a five-piece band that launched in 1976 when five mates (brothers John and Damian O’Neill, Feargal Sharkey, Billy Doherty and » Read More
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November 22, 2024
Named after a key line from the title track of Neurotica, Redd Kross’s fourth studio album, Now You’re One of Us will draw you into the wacky world of Jeff » Read More
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November 18, 2024
This year, Steel & Oak Brewing Co.’s Analog Vinyl Record Fair will take place onsite at the New West brewery on Saturday, November 30 and Sunday, December 1. Music lovers, » Read More
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October 6, 2024
Rebel Girl, Kathleen Hanna’s new autobiography, is a roller coaster of a story. Deeply personal, revolutionary, and entertaining at once, the book begins with a broken childhood and an abusive, » Read More
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September 13, 2024
After serving over 40 years in Manchester’s first punk rock band, it’s vocalist/guitarist Steve Diggle’s time to shine. In his new autobiography, Autonomy: Portrait of a Buzzcock, the last surviving » Read More
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March 27, 2024
Thurston Moore is a founding member of Sonic Youth, a band born in New York in 1981 that spent 30 years at the vanguard of alternative rock, influencing and inspiring such » Read More
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February 7, 2024
Mancunian Paul Hanley is an excellent choice of writer to author Sixteen Again, a book filled with close to 300 pages of interview snippets from the remaining members of Buzzcocks » Read More
