Two sequels from very different artists this week, following up their 2020 records. English art-rocker Westerman releases his second record, An Inbuilt Fault. American R&B artist Victoria Monét releases the sequel to 2020’s Jaguar, titled Jaguar II. Enjoy! Westerman An…
Crowded House’s Woodface was released in 1991. It marked a turning point in their commercial fortunes in pop music’s major English-speaking territories. The lead single ‘Chocolate Cake’, particularly the line “excess of fat on your American bones”, effectively killed their…
Welcome back for another music quiz. Last week’s results were tight – lots of people clocked in around 2:50, but KingClover and Max tied for the fastest time. This week, your challenge is to fill in the missing adjectives in…
Two critically revered female acts this week – Dorset’s PJ Harvey and Japanese-born Mitski. They both feature unwieldy album titles, and records are mellower than their usual fare. Enjoy! Mitski The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We 2023, 8/10Mitski…
Japanese-American indie-rock musician Mitski is one of the most interesting figures currently working in popular music – Iggy Pop famously labelled her as “the most advanced American songwriter that I know”. While guitar rock can sometimes feel stale in the…
Before he became Patti Smith’s lead guitarist, Lenny Kaye compiled the 2 album set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Released in 1972, the two-LP set covered American garage rock and psychedelia from the years 1965-1968 and was…
There were a lot of 18/20s in last week’s quiz, but a couple of contestants made it to 20/20 – NostalgicItalian and Eclectic Music Lover – with the latter having the fastest time. This week’s challenge is to link adjectives…
Elton John became a superstar in the early 1970s. But to my mind, he was more of a singles artist than an album artist. He released a series of irresistible singles, incorporating glam rock and Americana into his piano-based pop.…
James Vernon Taylor became the figurehead of the early 1970s singer-songwriter movement. He appeared on the cover of Time magazine with the headline “the face of the new rock”, where he was compared to Heathcliff and to a “cowboy Jesus”.…
Welcome back to this week’s quiz. I had to prepare this post in advance as I’m on holiday, so at the time of writing it wasn’t clear who won last week. This week, your challenge is to link song titles…
