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“People think we’re a pop band. But we never have been. We just had some huge success that hurt us a...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 4 months agoHuey Lewis And The News in 1985. There’s a twinkle in Huey Lewis’s eye as he contemplates the damage...
Shane MacGowan, Pogues Singer, Dies at 65
Billboard via Yahoo News· 6 months agoShane MacGowan, the legendarily shambolic, magnetic frontman of Celtic rock band The Pogues, died on Thursday (Nov. 30) at age 65 following a recent...
"Ultimately, they weren’t Rick Wakeman" - Clem Burke and Glen Matlock on the outsider appeal of the...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAhead of their gig with Iggy Pop at the Dog Day Afternoon festival in London, Blondie’s Clem Burke...
The story of Fairytale Of New York: “I sat down, opened the sherry, got the peanuts out and...
MusicRadar via Yahoo News· 6 months agoPortrait of British musician Kirsty MacColl (1959 - 2000) and Irish musician Shane MacGowan, the...
The story of Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics: "I woke up in a pool of blood on the way to the...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWendy O. Williiams close-up Plenty of bands play at being subversive, but the real indicator of how...
Devo authors go back to the future with new book. Learn about the band's Kent roots
Record-Courier via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNow that Devo has embarked on a farewell tour, it’s the perfect time to look backward. Or forward....
Shane MacGowan, the Pogues Frontman and ‘Fairytale of New York’ Singer, Dies at 65
Variety via Yahoo News· 6 months agoShane MacGowan, the singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of Celtic punk band the Pogues who...
"If we make this record and it sells, then if nothing else some of our heroes can get some...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThirty years ago, Guns N’ Roses released The Spaghetti Incident?, an album of covers, and brought a...
You cheap, lousy maggot: how Fairytale of New York started a Christmas culture war
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIt’s a song about alcoholism and a darkly dysfunctional marriage, it’s replete with crude swear...
The sound of This Town: 10 essential 2 Tone songs
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFor a brief and rather glorious period at the dog end of the 1970s, the 2 Tone ska movement gripped the nation’s pop kids. Bursting forth from the...