Music
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The Sultans of Scale: I Want My MTV (and My CD)
How Dire Straits helped launch the CD, mocked MTV on MTV and grew too big for their own music.
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Is Rock Music Dead? Rock Isn’t Dead, It Just Won’t Fit In
Rock didn’t die. It just stopped fitting a world built for background playlists, and that’s its power.
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Why We Love Eurovision: Clichés, Camp and Wind Machines
Wind machines, clichés and glorious camp: a fan since the mid-90s on why Eurovision is the one night a year Europe lets…
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: Their History and My Top 20 Songs
Forty years of funk and chaos: the story and sound of Red Hot Chili Peppers, plus my top 20 songs.