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Michael HannThe Guardian |
How is it that a group that sounds like the Hives are selling out the Apollo? In a world configured according to expectation, the highlight of their...
Sensible prog-rock bands try to ensure no one ever realises they play prog. What happens when you are deemed a prog band is that you are condemned to...
There were headlines last month about the plight of live music in Britain. More than a third of grassroots venues are making a loss; more than 100 of...
‘Meat-and-potatoes rock’ is the pejorative term critics use when describing groups of white men with guitars who play loud, uncomplicated music....
What does a chubby, bearded American feller wearing a plaid shirt and singing about his dog and truck have in common with a chic, sonically...
John Francis Flynn is monumentally good. He’s kick-yourself-for-missing-him good. He’s so good that when he spoke between songs in the upstairs...
The whole world might have been different had Alasdair MacLean, singer and guitarist of the delicate, pastoral, slightly psychedelic band the...
Shall we get the pop predictions for this year out of the way first? Taylor Swift will continue to conquer the world; the charts will continue their...
Live music is thriving right now. According to the US trade magazine Billboard, Taylor Swift’s Eras tour has so far grossed an estimated $838m, and...
I first heard of Noah Kahan in a cave in France this summer, when my 23-year-old daughter started wailing with distress at realising she had missed...
The American music website Pitchfork is the journal of record for alternative America. It has became this generation’s Rolling Stone, for both good...
When I was a kid listening obsessively to AC/DC and Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath, I despaired of music writers. How come none of them – except the...
Over the past few years, the National have become the most important band in modern rock music. The strange thing is that this has happened at a point...
T hough Stevie Nicks has only now called time on Fleetwood Mac – there’s no point in continuing after the death of Christine McVie, she told...
Pop critics routinely make the mistake of assuming the most important acts are the ones copied by the groups they like. So to a generation of writers...