Music

Elles Bailey: Can’t Take My Story Away (Cooking Vinyl & Outlaw Music) CD | LP | DL | Cassette Out 16 January 2026 BUY HERE 4.5 out of 5.0 stars4.5 Multi award winning independent singer-songwriter Elles Bailey releases her fifth studio album, Can’t Take My Story Away, with UK and European tour dates to follow. It’s another inspiring collection of captivating, soulful and emotionally charged songs with strong leanings towards blues, roots and Americana, all of which provide…

We are sorry to report the passing of the legendary Siouxsie and the Banshees drummer Kenny Morris at the age of 68. Kenny was a friend of ours, and it was always a pleasure to see and hang out with him when visiting Cork in Ireland, where he had been living. He was sweet, articulate, artistic and fascinating company and his beautiful eccentricity was adorable. He would turn up in a suit and a dress with open handcuffs…

Interesting Wallpaper Rockpools (Peacenik Records) CD | DL Out: 16 January 2026 What ever happened to charming indie? Dan O’Farrell finds it in abundance in the first album by Southampton stalwart Pete Harvey’s latest combo, Interesting Wallpaper. The genre-description of ‘indie’ differs greatly depending on the age of the person you’re talking to – the definition shifting by almost imperceptible degrees according to their month of birth. There’s the spiky post-punk bus – coming round into ‘almost mainstream’…