For the season of mellow fruitfulness, BEN FINLAY discovers the best autumnal albums. Continue reading
Category Archives: Music
Top 10: Glam rock
Pretentious, preposterous and perfectly flawed, it’s the best of glam rock – selected by ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Top 10: 1975
BEN FINLAY selects the best British albums of 1975. Expect the unexpected. Continue reading
Top 10: Prog rock
Fancy time-signatures, album-length songs and mystical lyrics – BEN FINLAY takes us through the best of prog rock. Continue reading
Decade: Blackstar (2016)
In a new series on 10 cultural works from the last 10 years, FINLAY McLAREN assesses David Bowie’s album Blackstar. Continue reading
Top 10: British folk-rock
BEN FINLAY guides you through the best of British folk rock, from Nick Drake and the Fairports to Comus. Continue reading
Top 10: British blues
BEN FINLAY is your guide to the best of the 1960s British blues boom. Continue reading
Top 10: Getting it together in the country
Fleetwood Mac, Gong, Paul Weller… they’re all in BEN FINLAY’s guide to getting it together in the country. Continue reading
Top 10: The golden age of British jazz
Ronnie Scott, Stan Tracey, Phil Collins… BEN FINLAY introduces the ten best British jazz albums of the 1960s and 70s. Continue reading
Now That’s What I Call Music Hall
ALWYN TURNER likes Victorian and Edwardian music-hall songs. These are his favourite lyrics. Continue reading
Before It Went Rotten
ALWYN TURNER reads about the pub rock of the 1970s. Continue reading
Remembering Chirgwin
ALWYN TURNER on one of the greatest stars of the British music hall. Did he really influence Alice Cooper? Continue reading
