Remembering Jim Capaldi.
There is something about the figure of the rock star which makes them seem invincible, a confidence oozes from them which makes them appear impervious to bodily diseases like cancer which makes their losses all the more poignant. Such was the case with rock drummer/ songwriter/all-round nice guy Jim Capaldi who passed away [...]

It was nice to see the Observer Music Monthly (OMM) bow out in the typical, modest, fashion with which they had ran the magazine for its entire, 76- issue, lifespan. It was a magazine which during its, six and a half years, had chronicled  an explosion of internet tools such as, MySpace and YouTube which [...]

The year 2009 in music.

One of the hardest parts of writing regularly is when you see the sequence of words you type before you and still don’t want to accept it. That unreal feeling that you don’t want to believe what you’re writing about is something anyone in this line has to deal with, but doesn’t make the medicine [...]

The death of Witold Kieltyka, better known by his stage name, Vitek was truly tragic. It is now only two years on from his passing on the 2nd November 2007. Vitek, only 27 years old, was the much esteemed drummer for Polish death metal Decapitated.

Thirty-two years ago today, a plane went down in Gillsburg, Mississippi. It had departed from South Carolina a few hours previously and unfortunately ran out of fuel not too far from it’s supposed destination of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The pilots tried desperately to land on a smaller runway but could not. In vain they tried again [...]

Clifford Lee Burton was the bassist in Metallica from 1982-1986, and many would argue that with his death, the “good” Metallica also died. Whether or not that is true is a matter of opinion, but it definitely had a profound and lasting effect on the band. But we’ll come back to that.

Jimi Hendrix was born on November 27 1942, and died on the 18th of September 1970. 39 years ago today. Influenced by a list of who’s who in blues, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and many more. His importance and impact to music can’t be overstated, and so I’m not going to resort to [...]

There is a particular air of cynicism about the Mercury Music Prize. Every year, most likely down to the fact that while the winners generally turn out to be the best album on the list, they are overshadowed by being lumped in with a top-heavy number of terribly shit albums. For every Boy In [...]

Keith Moon was The Who’s legendary drummer from 1964 until his untimely death in 1978, just two weeks after the release of The Who’s tenth album, Who Are You. Ten albums in fourteen years, makes today’s bunch of so-called rockers look like council workers.