By Ieuan Holland Reviewed: Saturday, 1st August 2026 Executive Overview "It’s just karaoke without Rotten." It is a sentiment frequently muttered by the purists, the lucky few who caught the lightning-in-a-bottle chaos of the Sex Pistols during their incendiary 1970s heyday. Yet, as the seismic cultural footprint of Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s the Sex … Read more
Executive Overview Four decades after its unassuming genesis in the classrooms and back-alley squats of London, Bark Psychosis remains one of modern alternative music’s most enigmatic, influential, and mercurial entities. Formed in 1986 by schoolfriends Graham Sutton and John Ling when they were just 14 years old, the outfit would go on to help birth … Read more
Executive Overview For decades, the standard 33 1/3 rpm 12-inch long-playing vinyl record has served as the ultimate canvas for musical storytelling. Since Columbia Records first popularized the format in the late 1940s—phasing out heavy, brittle 10-inch 78s in favor of microgroove vinyl—artists have wrestled with the spatial and artistic limitations of the album. While … Read more
Executive Overview With credits spanning more than 700 commercial releases, two Grammy Awards, and an esteemed role as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California (USC), drummer Peter Erskine stands as a towering pillar of contemporary rhythmic innovation. To categorize Erskine merely as a jazz drummer is to radically understate a career that … Read more
Executive Overview Marking the tenth anniversary of punk rock’s cultural detonation offers a reflective lens through which to examine one of the movement’s most paradoxical legacies: the rigid codification of taste. When the subculture’s "Year Zero" doctrine demanded the complete erasure of musical history, it created an intellectual and aesthetic wall between the past and … Read more
Reviewed by Bruno Irace Milan, Italy — July 6, 2026 Executive Overview Some concerts begin the moment the house lights fade to black and the first chord slices through the anticipatory silence of the room. This one, however, began more than a year earlier—the exact second a ticket was booked alongside a lifelong friend from … Read more
Executive Overview For decades, the pantheon of mid-century American rhythm and blues has been dominated by a familiar triad of names: Etta James, Gladys Knight, and Aretha Franklin. Yet, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with these luminaries—and arguably exerting an equally profound, if understated, influence on the trajectory of modern popular music—is the woman universally revered as the … Read more
Across a career spanning three decades, Michael Weston King has charted a remarkably idiosyncratic path through modern British music. Emerging from the vibrant post-punk and New Wave crucible of late-1970s Liverpool, King eventually left behind the fading echoes of the Britpop era to champion a distinct brand of American-influenced alt-country and Americana. Over the course … Read more
Executive Overview In the sprawling, often ephemeral landscape of the British music industry, few artists possess a lineage as rich, diverse, and intimately connected to the golden eras of popular music as singer-songwriter Claire Hamill. Spanning over half a century of active participation in the arts—from her formative years running a pioneering Teesside coffee bar … Read more
Executive Overview On Friday, July 10, 2026, London’s historic Wembley Stadium transformed into something far beyond a traditional music venue. It became the capital of Draag—a militarized, post-Soviet, nuclear-dystopian state conjured from the theatrical imagination of My Chemical Romance. Originally intending to catch the band later in the year during their overseas dates, reviewer Bruno … Read more
