Throughout the 1990s Nick Cave and his group, The Bad Seeds, had successfully harnessed a dark and violent energy to achieve global acclaim, solidifying their unique brand of theatrically minded rock ...

Portishead released their first album, “Dummy”, in 1994. At the time their music did not sound like much else out there although it did draw upon the Bristol sound popularised by The Wild Bunch and ...

“I just wanted to cram everything into a record that these people had ignored which left me everything.” – Lou Reed to Joe Smith for blankonblank The era of the late Sixties usually brings to mind the ...

“I wrote ‘Higher Ground’ before the accident. But something must have been telling me that something was going to happen to make me aware of a lot of things and to get myself together. This is like my ...

Consider for a moment the unnerving prospect of creating a follow-up to one of the most passionately celebrated debut albums of the 21st century. This was the daunting task facing Australian band The ...

When discussing Richard D James it is difficult to separate myth from reality. Did he have an older brother of the same name who died at birth? We know by now that he didn’t live in the middle of ...