Let’s begin by cutting through the mythological crap. Music critics of all stripes have completely bought, sold and...
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By my count this is at least the fourth maybe the fifth Premiere we’ve done with Phoenix garage-psych rock supergroup The...
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Some albums are released as ready-made classics. Of course, I’m sure every band strives for that achievement with each...
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For most people music often acts as a salve. The right song can conjure a vivid memory, set the scene, or enhance a mood. In...
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FREAK GENES is Andrew Anderson (Hipshakes, Proto Idiot) and Charlie Murphy (Red Cords, Murph & The Gazorpos) and this is one...
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When Wayne County arrived on New York’s underground rock ‘n’ roll scene in the early ’70s (fronting his...
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THIS WEEK ON ROADKILL RADIO Get off the road! The man-eaters on motorbikes have kicked the Roadkill Radio studio walls...
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26 August 2017 Band: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Album: SONGS FOR THE DEAF – 3rd longplayer Released: 27 August 2002 – 15 years ago… Note: with guests, Dave Grohl on drums and Mark Lanegan as vocalist Rolling Stone Magazine said: “Whether the ace metal is speedy or onerous, it is always deployed in the service of the eccentric song structures, and every track becomes a splendid, mysterious thing.” Turn Up The Volume: dynamite – Porsche turbo – muscled rock...
Oh Bondage Up Yours! is the 1977 debut single from UK punk band X-Ray Spex, showcasing the talents of the much-loved and much missed, Poly Styrene. Lyrically, it’s a criticism of contemporary mainstream consumerism delivered with Poly’s trademark energy and wit, equating the disposable culture for which she named herself with S&M submission and restriction: Chain store, chain smoke, I consume you all Chain gang, chain mail, I don’t think at all! Poly’s scathing...
Alright folks my hand is injured and I’m high on painkillers, I’m going to keep things short and sweet this week but we’re still gonna have a good time! Alvvays are an indie pop band from Toronto. Not just any indie pop band, but probably the best indie pop band going on the planet. They are the type of indie pop band lobbed right at me as well, they pepper those setlists with Ramones and Primitives covers. There’s some teeth to it. If you are eagerly awaiting the next...
For Malala Yousafzai‘s extraordinary bravery and social commitment… Band: THE VEX Who: hailing from London’s outer fringes, where the capital unceremoniously bleeds into Kent, the band actually formed some 1,500 miles away, with an Eighties pop superstar playing his part. While on tour in Moscow with a previous band, the schisms in the group were made apparent by an offer of management from one Adam Ant. The faction that opposed the deal broke away to form The Vex, playing their...
My boyfriend picked up Tracy Nelson’s self-titled 1974 record for me yesterday. It’s just as good as any of her other releases, and contains the song that put her on the map, which was later recorded by Linda Ronstadt and Etta James. The record is, on the whole, more melancholy than some of her other albums, but sometimes it’s good to have a mellow record to listen to when you’re feeling on the blue side. Tracy’s records are criminally under valued. I have a few...
If you were into the college radio jangle power pop of the 90s like The Posies, Dillon Fence and Material Issue then Massachusetts power pop band The Sighs were probably on your radar. If not, you are in for a treat. Formed in the early 80s but gigging around for years before releasing two acclaimed albums in the 90s; two records that stand the test of time and sound great today. Their debut record “What Goes On” was released in ’92 on Charisma Records, and the follow-up...
