I have focused on here before on some of my favourite guitarists , bassists and drummers , perhaps thinking that singers get enough of the limelight as it is. But there is one particular group of singers that has intrigued me for a while. When I think of the great singing voices of the last sixty years or so, the really great ones I mean, there are some clusters across the years. There was a high volume of supreme singers coming out of the high-end jazz of the 1950s/60s (Ell

This edition of The Essential 10 , our quickfire introduction to a wide range of my favourite artists, features Nirvana ; an act that managed just three studio albums (and their legendary MTV Unplugged one) over a career that spanned 1987 to 1994. I have trawled the entire catalogue to come up with ten of my favourite tracks by them, including a few surprises (although, if you don’t know much about them, they may all be surprises). Nirvana came into my life, like they did fo

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

First, let's set some context. Of course, some of you may have heard of this album, but the chances are, most of you will not know the...

We have collated a number of stories from the world of music that we think are quite interesting. Some of them, while not always directly...

This started out as research for one article, but there was so much interesting stuff all interlinked, that it has actually turned into a...

It was a random song on a playlist I had on in the car yesterday that I hadn't heard in a while, coupled with the fact that there were...

It is hard to believe, but somewhere around this day thirty years ago (yes, really), I attended my university graduation ceremony! I...

Unfortunately, it has taken me a few days to get to this, but it is important to finally write this - because on Tuesday (7th May) the...

For this playlist it's time to delve back into the cupboard of cover versions. We all know there are plenty of terrible and mediocre...

And so we continue. With things still somewhat of a struggle, we are keeping on with our series of decade playlists. This time we roll...

We have used a birthday again, as a good place to start an edition of Six Degrees Of Kevin Shields. But, it was a bit more unusual this...

There have been many musicians over time, that are indelibly associated with a particular artist, as a well known side person; Mick...

The guitar that was said to be Kurt Cobain's favourite one, has sold at auction over the weekend for $4.5 million. The guitar, a 1969...