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Suede founding bandmembers explore the stories behind the making of the band’s sophomore album and reflect upon its ...

We all know what Brian Eno had to say about Lou Reed’s first band The Velvet Underground and it was true. Even if VU’s abrasive noise did not endear them to a mainstream audience, their cult following ...

‘They start relying on you to hand them that next bit of excitement.’ – Kimberley Dunne, co-owner of Transmission Records in Margate. Behind The Counter is a 12-part video series that tells the ...

Billie Holiday had a distinct signature style that transformed a song into a personal story that was convincing and believable. As Billie once said, “I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune ...

For this month’s Album Club we will be joined by Kevin May and David McElroy, the authors behind the forthcoming book Halo: The Story Behind Depeche Mode’s Classic Album Violator. They will relay the ...

In the early ’90s, Jeff Mangum and a few friends formed a now-legendary collective called Elephant Six, which grew to encompass dozens of strangely named bands creating eclectic music mostly for their ...

Record producer and engineer Ken Scott has worked with some of the greatest musical icons. He began his career at EMI Recording Studios (known as Abbey Road) and worked the mixing desk for the The ...

The songs Erykah Badu had written for her second album, Mama’s Gun, signified a major thematic development in her music and an increasingly self-assured outlook in her personal life. Around midway ...

Morrissey struggled with people of power in many ways, mostly because he desired to hold a position of high influence himself. When the singles leading up to The Queen Is Dead, ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’, ...

English folk-punk hero Frank Turner relays his love of metal ahead of his CAS presentation of Iron Maiden at this year’s Sonisphere. How Jeff Mangum became inspired by Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young ...

Join us on the 19th June to explore this landmark electronic album released in 1991. Ed Harcourt co-wrote and played on the Faithfull’s 20th studio album which she described as her most honest album.