The legendary producer who reputedly ‘invented the Eighties’ reveals he’s an “awful engineer” and often didn’t take any songwriting credits...
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On their self-titled EP, US teen four-piece The District pay tribute to Mississippi legends of yore with some superb blues-rock merican...
‘Real Hair’ is a brilliant slab of 90s indie-rock that’s not a revivalist’s heaven but a rival for heaven itself...
We get Yes Sir Boss singer and songwriter Mathew Sellors to put Sting’s live mic of choice through its paces...
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