Posts in category Rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUwtyZglQI1 Grunge panorama wouldn’t be what it is without the presence of Pearl Jam. Imagine Seattle, twenty years ago. The city was a nest of …

Born in Camberwell, London on 28th August 1986 Florence Welch has always been the music type, with her father pushing her into the music run …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK3bUFmAUZ01 London, 1963. The British Invasion in all its splendor. American blues came straight to UK and british musicians gave the genre back to USA …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k8es2BNloE1 WOW! This is simply the best track I have heard in the past year, 2011 definitely ended with a BANG! This is the astonishing sound of …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cl7vlvSva41 The beauty of this melancholy gem, All You Ever Wanted, is in that it doesn’t seem to be premeditated, but rather offers a sparsely …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0rQyIIS15k1 Brendan’s Death Song was the selling point of my abandoning the futile search and destroy quest to tear apart the Peppers’ new album, sans …

I once had a conversation with the members of Arcade Fire where it was brought up how rock lyrics sometimes sounded like someone speaking in …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50kAd7iC2X81 Ok, I’ll say it again: In a normal situation, I wouldn’t dig up a song several decades old with the intent of presenting it …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQ0vDAbF7s1 Last week saw the release of R.E.M.’s ultimate greatest hits album ‘Part Lies, Part Truth, Part Hits, Part Garbage’. The album spans the band’s …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5g-DeG0MJc1 Today sees the release of London folk band ‘Dry the River’s new EP ‘Weights and Measures’. To me the band is very remniscient of …