Brendan Benson is a singer-songwriter from Michigan, USA. He is best known in the UK for his work with the famous singer-songwriter Jack White, as part of the adequate, so-called ‘supergroup’, The Raconteurs. I am familiar with his first three solo LPs and would aver that of these, his sophomore* album “Lapalco” is the finest. …
It’s a mishmash of rubbish Keith Richards If Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the perfect soundtrack of the 60’s as Beatles fans and demented rock critiques all around the world would make us want to believe, then this decade must have been really horrible. It is the most horrible, worst, and most overrated …
Work was never really finished for the employees of Rextel Corporation. So when R24 and Q103 would glaze out beyond the huge window of their Life Dome, they knew they were taking the time. Both lived within a vast territory called “Life Dome 3”. By 2050 most of the world’s population lived within similar facilities. …
Popular music did not have much impact on me as a child. I attribute this to the fact that 1970s pop was universally dreadful. Moreover, my limited exposure to it was either via light-entertainment programmes such as the Two Ronnies, or through children’s TV such as Crackerjack. The former would feature the likes of Dana and …
It was night and I was listening to Mozart’s ‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’ and dreaming of Vienna. It was my biggest dream to live there one day, an impossible dream… The men with bloomers and sabers arrived at midnight and dragged me out of my parents’ frugal house. I was a poor peasant girl …
The year is 1989, and The Cure is about to reach an unexpected peak of recognition and creativity by creating an album that until this day by many is considered as the masterpiece of their discography and one of the best albums of all times. In their mystical trilogy of albums released between 1980 and …
You wouldn’t think that record stores can be potentially dangerous places- except on Record Store Day, where people tend to beat each other up for the latest hyped limited colored vinyl or picture disc edition. But that is another Vinyl Wankers episode from the future. No, besides the RSD, record stores can be places where …
Barry’s Cafe was the kinda place that catered to a local crowd. You could always be assured of three essentials: cheap drinks, strong pours, and a good time. The atmosphere? Light, good-natured and friendly. Barry’s was a unique place. A local joint with live music, pool tables and people from all walks-of-life; neighborhood down-and-outers, street-workers, …
“I have a feeling,” I said to Mandeep, as we paused speculatively at the top of the glittering staircase, “that we are going to be tremendously successful in life.” Mandeep momentarily stopped glancing left and right and glared up at me. “You’re off your rocker, boy!” he boomed. He pointed ‘forward’ with both hands, “Now …
Few truly embodied the punk ethos like Richard Lester Meyers did. A high school dropout, he and another friend, Tom Miller, moved to a New York City in the early stages of the punk explosion due to happen in the next couple of years, in pursuit of his passion as a poet. Adopting new names …
