Released: 2002 Sometimes – rarely – there’s just too much back story to put into a few hundred words. In the case of Rammstein, the German sextet have found themselves becoming so…

“On their mettle, Hung and Power are Jackson Pollock in producer form, grappling with the abstract and going where the narcotics take them.”

Released: 1967 The sixties might’ve seen a British invasion and an American reprisal like some sort of tit-for-tat musical boxing match, but if there was one place on which everyone’s e…

ALT: a person is standing on top of a mountain looking at the landscape .

Released: 2017 If the job of a music writer is to describe how something sounds, how to perch over Archy Marshall’s songs? The easy handles – alt.jazz, trip-rap, agit-folk – all f…

Released: 1978 It’s one of the most enduring – if unwritten – rules about gaining popularity for your art; the more people it gets in front of, the more they feel they own both it…

It certainly doesn't hurt to have little (OK, a LOT) of empathy in this troubling era, but the idea of actually being able to project into the lives of others is one that can bring about some hard, face metaphorically up against the wall outcomes. Upchuck are a punk rock outfit from Atlanta who grew up as skaters and are fronted by woman of color KT.

Released : 1984 If timing is everything, fewer migrations could’ve been more blessed with that gift than Lloyd Cole’s relocation to Glasgow in 1982. Famously a city hobbled by the local…