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Skelton Tree is an odd album. It isn’t dissimilar to much of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ discography, yet at the same time it just feels hollow, and not in a bad way, just in a atmospheric one. The reason for that is probably that Nick Cave’s son died in the middle of the recording of the album. He died after the lyrics were made however so there are no hidden autobiographical messages, but his death is important to the album because you can feel it in how Cave makes the album move and grind emotionally towards the end. The artwork of the sixteenth studio album by the group. Nick Cave is probably the only artist from the 1980s who is still expected to release a great record each time, there is no one who you can compare him to, he has had better albums than Skeleton Tree , but few people would call this album the weakest in his catalogue, but if I were to make a list of best albums made by 59 year olds, Skelton Tree would probably be at the top. There is a v...

In a recent interview with NME (See here) , Jimmy Page has said that Royal Blood (Young UK Hard rock band) are capable of "Taking rock into a new realm". Jimmy Page praised the rock duo in the interview saying that "Their album has taken the genre up a serious few notches". Page saw the duo in New York in May, and complimented they performance "They were fantastic. Absolutely riveting". Royal Blood will be opening for The Foo Fighters alongside Iggy Pop during The Foo Fighters 2015 UK tour. Meanwhile Jimmy Page has expressed interest in touring in 2015, and has recently published a pictorial autobiography. Royal Blood's Little Monsters

Gandalf is the sort of record the 60s loving hipster you know references to try to seem knowledgable about psychedelic music, it's a pretty obscure record. However since it's release in the late 1960s it has built a large cult following and the band Gandalf is now considered one of the best little known secrets of the psychedelic era.  Gandalf were together for four years from 1965 until 1968 and despite their cult status not much is popularly known of the band. One person hoping to rectify that is Peter Sando, the guitarist for Gandalf. Perhaps the most overt Psychedelic album artwork in existence “ I met Bob Muller in detention hall in the 7th grade. He had a band [the Thunderbirds] and they were in the process of dumping their guitarist, Michel Nouri, later to become a successful actor. I joined the Thunderbirds, later to become the Rahgoos.” Peter Sando recalled of the band's origin. Sando's earliest musical influences are common for many his ...

This type of list has been done a million times, and there's a reason why. You can't label the Beatles (as a whole) as any Genre, hence why i'm showing you the best of the best. Although I can't help but stress the fact that i Love the Beatles and may be (ever so slightly) bias towards them. 5- Abbey Road - Released 1969 Ah, yes the most iconic album cover of all time. The "greatest" Beatles album.  So why is at number 5? Well, why don't you the educated reader of this post look at is track listing. If you're a casual Beatles fan you may recognise songs like "Something", "Octopus's Garden", "Here Comes The Sun or "Come Together" but how many of the other songs can you identify with based just on the title? not many i'll bet. I can just about remember half the songs by reading their title the other half... well don't ask me! 4- Rubber Soul - Released 1965 Now this is a album. This is ...

Many Moons have past since music last happily strode its way into schools and tore the pupils away from their textbooks. Many Moons have gone since the charts were last full of good old fashioned Rock And Roll. But Rock hasn't stopped its just been taking a breather, i mean the amount of drugs it did, come on now be fair, it deserves a breather. So how will this revival of music happen, well thats obvious in the underground, and im not taling about the teenage mutant ninja turtles. Im talking about the Underground, which was once laden in Velvet, the madchester underground. It's been here since Swing music and you can rest assured it will never leave us. This new generation of musicians, well lets just say I'm going to be championing them for the next while over this blog, in an attempt to make sure Bieber and his directions can surrender and waltz away (hopefully not to the last waltz). So follow me for a blog that reminises about the past and looks forward to the fu...