• Obituary: David Bowie

    I didn’t even know David Bowie could die.  His artistic status was secured by 1980 but his recent return, after a ten year absence, saw him producing some of the best music of an astounding career, and reinventing the mythology of the man in a way he hadn’t since...
  • Losing an Icon: Lemmy

    In the early hours of this morning the official Motörhead Facebook page was updated informing the world that it had lost a legend. Yesterday Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister passed away. For those that aren’t aware of the importance of the man; Lemmy was first known worldwide for his part in...
  • Our 25 Favourite Album Covers Of 2015

    ‘Never judge a book by it’s cover’, so the adage goes – but they never said anything about music. For anyone who saw the marvellous interview Noisey conducted with cover designer Stefan Sagmeister earlier this year, the preciousness and joy in classic album art cannot be underestimated. Stefan himself...
  • How Music Through The Years Has Charted Our Repetitious Foreign Policy Mistakes

    The House of Commons is an institution unique in its ability to be at once perplexing, and resolutely predictable. What’s unique about this fresh war is the manner in which, for everyone of an age old enough to read this article, this has already happened more than once in...
  • I Am The Resurrection, Again: Thoughts on the Second Return of The Stone Roses

    The Stone Roses, one of the great bands that helped Manchester’s music scene secure it’s formidable reputation, recently announced two comeback gigs, to be held in June next year at the Etihad Stadium, and even organised two extra nights after overwhelmingly high demand for the £60+ tickets. They will also headline T in...
  • Why Are Women Still On The Sidelines Of Musical Conversation?

    Women have, unsurprisingly for a demographic that accounts for more than half the world’s population, contributed some sizeable amount to our musical cultural cache. But when lists of the greatest artists to ever live posited, or even figureheads of vast swathes of genres we use to divide them named…...