This month the cover stars are Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys, who talk to RC about their past, present and future: their 40 years (they released their first ever single, West End Girls, in April 1984) as Britain’s foremost pop duo, about their brand-new album, Nonetheless, and about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the pair…
Initially pitched in some quarters as harbingers of yet another glam-rock revival, Hicksville NY’s Lemon Twigs, centred around the fraternal duo of former child actors Brian and Michael D’Addario, turned out to be something subtly different: shamelessly nostalgic purveyors of sun-dappled 70s AM radio pop, with a gorgeously gooey, ice-creamy pro…
None of the 10 solo studio albums Mark Knopfler’s made have equalled the impact former band Dire Straits made in their 80s heyday, a period in which his band were one of the biggest selling acts on the planet. Yet still he stubbornly ploughs his furrow – and while One Deep River is unlikely to make many new converts, it will more than satisfy h…
When Michael Head And The Red Elastic Band’s previous album Dear Scott reached No 6 in 2022, it finally put to rest NME’s classic front cover from 1999 claiming that Head was “our greatest songwriter” who nobody recognised. It had taken 10 albums across nearly 40 years, but with Dear Scott the mainstream had belatedly woken up to Head’s g…
Thirty years have passed since Portishead’s Dummy, but perhaps even more remarkably, 22 since Out Of Season, Beth Gibbons’ visionary autumnal collaboration with Talk Talk’s Paul Webb (aka Rustin Man). So, what’s she been up to? It would be tempting to guess very little. The only music that has surfaced since 2002 was a typically bleak inter…
