September 7, 2008

The Lloyd Cole Part of the Interview.

MJ: Well, one of the ideas I’m now seriously considering, and which has been suggested to me by both Jim and Lloyd Cole, is …

October 8, 2008

I have dropped 3 places to #14. The way my game has been I’m amazed I’m still top 20. Some of these guys are really good, and Vince Gill is …

May 28, 2009

Academy Award-winning Director Sam Mendes says his life has been “lived out in songs” – from the tune his father sang to him at bedtime to the track that was playing while his first child was born. In his Guest DJ set, he shares a realization inspired by seeing an artist who refuses to cater to his audience…

May 28, 2009

From the San Francisco Chronicle (website) 28th May 2009. By Michelle Richmond – Author / Booklover / Observer of Neighborhoods. Songs to Write By.

June 11, 2009

Hardly news but I was watching an (hilarious) episode of c4’s “The Inbetweeners” when bang there’s a dissolve to a new scene featuring about 5 seconds of Wild Orphan.

June 13, 2009

I wasn’t even aware that this song was about Margaret Thatcher (or maybe I did know, and had just forgotten). I would’ve thought a more obvious track would’ve been Morrissey’s …

June 15, 2009

In a two-part series on BBC Radio 2, we are looking specifically at the music of the time and the way it was fuelled by the politics. It is fascinating …

July 31, 2009

German magazine Musikexpress asked me to vote for their 40th anniversary list. At first I declined citing ignorance of last ten years or so, but it was made clear that …

August 23, 2009

Can it really be 25 years since REM released Reckoning? Last week’s anniversary re-issue of this jewel in the indie rock crown leaves us in no doubt that the calendar …