At times it felt like Courtney Love’s infamous relationship with Kurt Cobain was more of a circus sideshow than a marriage built on love. The pair were seemingly drowning in their drug habit, yet somehow trying to raise a small child at the same time. For many fans of Nirvana, it seems that Love has always been very much a persona non grata; a bad influence and possibly the ultimate ruination of Cobain. So, was it as simple as that - is Courtney Love really a manipulative, ta

It was an interesting, and potentially pivotal time, for the rising stars of Scottish rock music. The four years leading up to the release of Once Upon A Time, Simple Minds eighth studio album, had seen a massive commercial boom for them, but also witnessed a few seismic changes to the band. You could go all the way back to 1981, when founding drummer Brian McGee broke up the original dynamic when he quit the group after recording what would become the fourth and fifth recor

In the UK (and the northern hemisphere more generally), we have truly entered that autumnal time of year (a.k.a. fall) - the temperature has finally chilled a bit, the air seems damper and most of all, the nights are becoming way too long. So, to help with that, we have gathered ten more songs broadly (and occasionally tenuously) about this season. It's not everyone's favourite time of year, so these songs will help ease that pain..... possibly. 1. Weezer: Undone (The Sweater

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This is nothing rhetorical or a pun, but a genuine question. Connie Converse was born, had a brief career on the music scene in New York...

I recently realised that after more than three years of listening, watching and writing (and of course, waffling) about music - I was...

We have another in our occasional series of stories from around the musical world - some amusing, some strange, some a little sad, but...

Feuding siblings in music seems to be a trope as old as the hills, well certainly back to the start of the rock n roll era anyway. But...

Last week saw us embark on operation 'distract our daughter from exam results day'* - with a trip to the cinema. I hadn't set foot in a...

Stephen Marriott born in Essex in 1947, became one of the icons of the late 60’s mod scene - but has sadly (and wrongly) been somewhat...

I realised something a few years back. While as you might suspect, a decent proportion of my music collection comes from the UK and USA,...

We recently had a very pleasant afternoon out at a large country estate we had never been to before. The added incentive was that they...

Okay, so it's a little strange to write about someone on the 26th anniversary of their passing, rather than a rounder number, like 25 or...

I'd never done a music pilgrimage before - well, I suppose I had never done any kind of pilgrimage come to that... But, while on holiday,...

I may have gone too early with the ' Scorchio ' playlist last week, as temperatures have topped 31 °C (88°F) round these parts (probably...

I don't know what the weather has been like in your neck of the woods recently, but round here over the last few days, it has most...

It's time, whether you are ready or not, for another dip into some interesting stories from the world of music. Some are strange, some...

This day forty years ago (10 June 1985), was a transitional day for one of America's rapidly developing and emerging key bands, as its...

M*A*S*H* is undoubtedly one of the greatest television shows ever made - a wonderful blend of great scriptwriting, empathetic acting, a...

If you had been in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, you would most likely have known about this man. Since...