Mark Jennett
Five albums - released between 1972 and 1982 - represent the years between Springfield's critical peak with Dusty in Memphis and her temporary return to commercial form with the Pet Shop Boys and the Reputation album. Although many of ...
Mark Jennett
It is has taken more than four years for Bernadette Peters to follow up her Sondheim, Etc album and some might wish that the result had been something more unusual than an album of largely familiar standards from, arguably, ...
Bob Wake
Don’t be misled by the cover to Mike Magnuson’s disarming memoir about growing up in Wisconsin, Lummox: The Evolution of a Man. The dust jacket photo of Magnuson’s ample gut in a snug shirt and his beefy hand clutching ...
Anne Sheridan
Science fiction may have a narrow appeal, and is not always respected by advocators of “serious” literature. Strangely enough, however, it is still fair to say that science fiction and horror can be considered to be the two genres ...
Andy Hughes
“I’m not out to change the world,” advises Steely to the world via her website – just as well on the basis of this album. They say don’t judge a book by its cover, and with books, that’s a ...
Andy Hughes
When you are one of the most famous rock vocalists in the world ever, and you’ve been a star since the days when being a star meant more than merely being a celebrity, trying something new is a goldfish ...
Emma French
Rachel Kaplan’s delightful guide provides timely support for museums off the beaten track in the wake of the recent move to make many of London’s larger and more famous entrance-charging museums, including the Natural History Museum and the Victoria ...
Andy Hughes
This band has a sound that modern pop purists would advise is ‘old-fashioned’. That is to miss the point of 34 Below. What this band do is to take the traditions of American rock music – straightforward guitars, bass ...
Andy Hughes
Gladyss Patches are doing one of two things with this album. They are either a) mixing a blend of on-the-pulse teenage angst rock with a smattering of out-there metal raps and guitars, or b) a band who are unsure ...
Phil Freeman
The Ghastly One documents—sometimes in excruciating detail and other times in a manner so telescoped as to lose the reader entirely—the “career” of exploitation filmmaker Andy Milligan. Milligan is a forgotten figure in film, a man who directed 29 ...
