"You can't look at the light. Don't look at the light" As I stare into the black light of my computer screen aft...

Cornershop are a band that have always seemed a little out of place, as much by design as anything else.  The brainchild of leader Tji...

The Three Amigos! Is like comfort food to me. I first saw it when it first came out, when I was in high school, when I was going throu...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly known as Zaire (and before that, the Belgian Congo), a style of music known as souko...

The plot of this film is so simple that it can be boiled down to one sentence on IMDB: “A married couple is terrorized by a series of su...

Oozing into the aural field like high tide imperceptibly covering land, the first song “Plains of Nazca” off Sun Dial’s debut masterpi...

If you go to the vinyl room of Twist And Shout and look up at the west wall near the big neon display for The Cure’s album Boys Don’t ...

After many years of derision and disrespect, Rush has finally achieved a degree of respectability in the world of music, capped off by...

“Leeloo: ‘Everything you create, you use to destroy.’ Korben Dallas: ‘Yeah, we call it human nature.’” For this edition of I’d L...

Much like Yes’ masterwork Close to the Edge , Voyage of the Acolyte begins with the eruption of sound from silence. Waves and blobs o...

On January 29, 2014, my band, Quantum Creep, will be covering Elvis Costello’s first two albums, My Aim is True and This Year’s Model...

Out of all the movies that Paul Newman made, from his debut in The Silver Chalice in 1954 to his final role as narrator of The Meercat...

Quick – what’s the most uplifting album you know with at least three songs about suicide on it? Well, if you didn’t answer Sweet Old W...

I haven’t seen 12 Years A Slave yet. I’m pretty sure that it’s a good film, based on everything I’ve read. But I don’t think it will ...