McLuhan
Before Thriller, Bruce Swedien Recorded McLuhan’s Anomaly
Before Thriller, Bruce Swedien recorded McLuhan’s Anomaly. The Chicago band’s own accounts trace its horror films, media ideas and four ambitious pieces.
Unicorn’s Last Orders Opens the Archives for a 37-Track Double CD
Rare live recordings, studio demos and a song completed fifty years later: inside Unicorn’s two-disc Last Orders collection.
Bates Motel Nearly Had Stephen Stills Produce Them. The Record Deal Never Came
Les Bohem and David Kendrick revisit Bates Motel’s blazing LA club years, near misses with major producers and the cassettes that became Live in LA 1980.
John Howard Packs Seventy-Three Years of Memories into Overnight Bags
John Howard’s new eleven-song album turns Chelsea glamour, an Abbey Road morning, the AIDS years, a father’s Alzheimer’s and the touring life into assured, piano-led pop.
The Psychedelic Band Colleges Tried to Stop from “Brainwashing” Audiences
Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera turned strobe-lit “brainwashing” panic into one of British psychedelia’s sharpest debuts—now restored with essential singles, demos and rarities.
The Fox Recorded For Fox Sake Overnight. Then Black Sabbath Changed Everything
The Fox thought their twelve-hour Radio Luxembourg session was an audition. It became their only album—now expanded with four unheard recordings and restored US artwork.
He Left the Wall of Amps Behind. W.D. Miller Found Something Just as Heavy in a Quiet Room.
The Florida-born, Kentucky-based songwriter turns metal history, family, depression and grief into the unhurried Americana of Child of the Kindly South.
'My Musical Life Was an Odyssey': Mark Wirtz in His Own Words
With Think Like A Key Music preparing to reissue Wirtz's Capitol albums Balloon and Hothouse Smiles this July, we publish this 2001 interview for the first time.
Tim Goulding: VI Decades at Taylor Galleries, Dublin
Dr. Strangely Strange's Tim Goulding surveys six decades of painting at Taylor Galleries, Dublin. July 16 - August 22, 2026.
Orang-Utan: The Album They Never Knew They Made
A cult heavy rock classic, recorded in a single afternoon at De Lane Lea in 1970 and released without the band's knowledge, finally gets its definitive edition from the original master tape. Lead single "Magic Playground" is streaming now.
The 1967 Liverpool Single YouTube Just Rediscovered, and Why Will Sergeant Never Forgot It
Fifty-eight years after it sank without trace, a single song by a band that never made a second record is finding its audience through a phone screen.
The Simpsons Called It “a Peter Hammill Song.” The Man Who Wrote It Is Used to That.
A Simpsons writer reached for a Peter Hammill song to explore a crisis of faith. She didn’t know the man who actually wrote it has been handing away credit for sixty years.
Rome 56 Bring Their New York Power Pop to the Cavern Club for International Pop Overthrow Liverpool
The New York power-pop outfit led by Arthur Lamonica of The Shirts play their first IPO Liverpool this week, with two sets at the Cavern Club.