Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and many more musicians flocked to the Haight Ashbury area of San Francisco in 1967. Why? Something ‘groovy’ was happening. Endless parties, drugs and music flooded the streets while free health clinics were being set up in the name of Love. Even though we couldn’t make it during the …
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Joy Division and New Order icon Peter Hook will be returning to the annual punk festival in Blackpool. After Hook’s 2016 Rebellion performance, the event organisers thought it was a no brainer to bring the man back for another year. In 2018 we can all look forward to hearing Peter Hook & The Light perform …
The Professionals have just blown us away. They sailed through a number of gutsy new tracks from their freshly released album What In The World, and they’ve treated us to three Sex Pistols tracks in light of the 40th anniversary of Never Mind The Bollocks. It was enough to make one member of the audience …
As I sink a large wine before the show, I notice that this once cosy pub usually reserved for local post-work drinks has quickly become a hive for punks. Silver zips and Mohicans as tall as a hardware store shelf surround me. The ’70s band Penetration are in town and are celebrating their 40 year …
MGM TV and Davey Holmes have announced that they are developing a new bio on the life of Rolling Stones journo Hunter S. Thompson. The new series is to be called Fear & Loathing, named after the writer’s selection of writing under the same name. Hunter S. Thompson’s life was an eventful one, more notably …
We’re fed up with being spoon fed ‘Thriller nights’ and we’re sick of losing friends after being driven insane by their pelvic thrusts during ‘Time Warp’. So we’ve binned the cliche spook soundtracks and flicked through our vintage record collection. It’s time to bring back the Halloween classics. For this playlist we’ve compiled a number …
Rod Stewart will be back on tour again in 2018; this time performing his “Live in Concert” tour, a classic set of hit singles that spans several decades of his life as a rock ‘n’ roll icon. The tour begins on January 27th in Germany with six more dates to follow into mid-February. Tickets …
Roger Daltrey has announced the release of his own memoir. The Who founder and singer has always resisted the urge to publish his own memoir and now feels he has had enough perspective to write one. “When you’ve spent more than half a century at the epicentre of a band like The Who, perspective can …
Pink Floyd are reissuing two of their albums on vinyl for the first time in more than two decades. Delicate Sound Of Thunder and A Collection Of Great Dance Songs are following a number of remastered collections from the ’70s band. Both of these records were released in the ’80s. A Collection Of Great Dance …
A collection of Gary Moore’s blues studio recordings is being released. Blues and Beyond will bring the collection of Gary Moore’s blues studio recordings all together in one package. BMG is releasing Vinyl, CD and box set versions that include some interesting extras. The box set will feature the official Gary Moore biography I Can’t …
50 years ago today, in 1967, the Summer Of Love began. It was the rise of the hippie counterculture and a time for love to win. People flocked to Haight Ashbury in San Francisco (dubbed ‘Hashbury’ by Hunter S Thompson) to become part of the movement. Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick was part of it …
https://youtu.be/eZWB0VF2vDI The Doors have re-released their 1967 video for Strange Days. This is the title track of their second album Strange Days. The record is currently celebrating its 50th birthday. There will be an anniversary edition released in November which you can pre-order below! What do you think of the video? Tell me in the …