Future Islands: Seasons (Waiting On You)
It was the day after The Late Show on American television. Emails began dropping in my inbox. OMG, did you see this video? Watch the singer…
Thanks for stumbling upon my retirement project and labour of love, Here Comes The Song. Here you'll find the latest blogs from music fanatics about their favourite songs and the artists who wrote them. It really is about the music that moves us...
It was the day after The Late Show on American television. Emails began dropping in my inbox. OMG, did you see this video? Watch the singer…
When asked in January this year why he had not recorded a pop album since 1993, Billy Joel replied: ‘I thought I’d had my say. I just said,
I first saw The Band when they were still called The Hawks. They were backing Bob Dylan for the electric half of the concerts on his 1966 UK
It did not take this year’s Record Store Day to remind me I had a half-decent vinyl collection, bookended by the early Sixties and late…
From my first steps in bluegrass and country, I have learned that no one who ever found themselves unexpectedly in Mississippi was remotely…
You will shortly be bombarded with guff about the Summer Of Love, the flowering of hippiedom in San Francisco 50 years ago. Newspapers which
April 25 1970 at London's Royal Albert Hall. I had just turned 14 and this was the first live gig I'd ever been to. A few weeks earlier, my…
By the time Joe Strummer recorded Silver And Gold in 2002 he had been an ex-member of the Clash for the best part of two decades, even…
Fifty years on from Sgt Pepper and Waterloo Sunset, where might one go to find that spirit of peculiar Britishness that was a key element in
It’s one of those songs, like Yellow Submarine or I Should Be So Lucky, that many of us feel we were born knowing and, in consequence, maybe
From Route 66 to 34th & Vine via Memphis, Massachusetts and Frisco Bay, the places British singers and bands celebrated in song used to be…
John Prine was just 24 when his eponymous debut album was released in 1971 and critics were struck by how mature and wise the singer-song…
You don’t need to have seen X Factor or The Voice more than once to have heard a judge unconvincingly assure a fretful contestant after a…
Written by John Sebastian and released by The Lovin’ Spoonful in the mid-1960s, this two-minute pop song is as good a declaration as any of…
Prepare yourselves for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and endless eulogies to Sgt Pepper and Swinging London. But the Beatles…
In real time it is just over four minutes long, but Strawberry Fields Forever is not in real time, it’s in dreamtime. Even now when you hear
Disciples and critics have spent the last four decades and more trying to find the right metaphor for Lucinda Williams’ distinctive vocal…
Can a song make you afraid? Can a song move you to tears for a lament that is not yours, but might be? Can a song punch all the air out of…
At the risk of sounding like Donny Hathaway, great pop music has to be something. That something can be almost anything, but it can't be…
February 1979. Britain was gripped by an unprecedented crisis. Bin men, gravediggers and lorry drivers were on strike, unemployment was…