Enjoy An Album with Liam Withnail & Christopher Macarthur-Boyd

Arguably the best wedding band in the history of East L.A., Los Lobos stood out on a punk scene full of primitive rockers like The Blasters and X with their blend of rootsy rockabilly and traditional…

Spending over a decade in New York as a perennial indie-rock no-hoper sound engineer, James Murphy reinvented himself in his early 30s as LCD Soundsystem. He established himself as a self-effacing ob…

After parting ways with their rambunctious older drummer Gary Young, slacker-gods Pavement followed a promising run of EP’s and a killer debut album (heavily indebted to English post-punk bands like …

Former music journalist Neil Tennant and trainee architect Chris Lowe bonded after a chance encounter in a hi-fi shop, before a meeting with legendary hi-NRG disco producer Bobby Orlando led to the f…

Less than a year before he was supposedly drive-by’d to death in Las Vegas, 2Pac released the double album All Eyez On Me on Death Row Records. Fresh out of jail for sexual assault and sodomy, Tupac …

£60,000 in debt after an ill-conceived American tour and having released two albums that didn’t quite make the splash that they wanted, Colchester bad boys Blur were about as penniless as the private…

Cocaine! Torontonian sex-jammer Abel Tesfaye combined moody dream-pop samples with the Ethopian music that soundtracked his youth to become The Weeknd: a purveyor of glassy-eyed cum-soaked nihilistic…

Sandwiched between the raw kraut-pop of his late-seventies Berlin period and the 1981 ultra-plastic megatunes of Let’s Dance, “Scary Monsters And Super Creeps” is regarded by many as a transitional r…

Postponed for years by Epic Records who thought that it lacked commercial appeal, early demos and bootlegs from Extraordinary Machine were eventually leaked forcing the label to “Free Fiona”. Origina…

Bill Bruford quit playing drums for Yes after they released “Close To The Edge” in 1972 to shack up with Robert Fripp in King Crimson, citing the trouble they had composing music due to the different…

Alice Coltrane described the period after her husband John’s death as ‘tapas’ - a Sanskrit word meaning ‘a painful and austere ordeal’. This avant-garde fusion of modal post-bop jazz and traditional …

First making waves in his native Puerto Rico as a viral teenage Soundcloud rapper, Bad Bunny’s winningly emo-adjacent blend of reggaeton and trap music blew up the charts internationally with a serie…

While playing as a drummer for local Detroit bands such as Two Star Tabernacle and The Go, John Gillis took his ex-wife’s maiden name and retitled himself Jack White. He formed a two-piece with Meg, …