Feature: The Singles Bar - 19th September 2011
Joe Rivers is back in the driving seat, casting his eye over the week's new releases. Find out what he thinks of fresh music from ten artists, including Roots Manuva, Wiz Khalifa and Lady Gaga.There...
View ArticleFeature: Overlooked Albums #20: Sparks - Kimono My House
Angel Aguilar takes a look at the long and varied career of Sparks, starting with the album where it all began: Kimono My House.The early seventies were a low point for wit and humor. Dylan seemed to...
View ArticleFeature: The No RipCast: Volume 8
The usual mix of views, news and irreverent debate can be found here, on the eighth installment of our transatlantic podcast.In this month's episode of the No RipCast, David Coleman, Joe Rivers and...
View ArticleFeature: The Singles Bar - 16th April 2012
Another week, another line-up of singles... and so the cycle will continue until long after we're all dead (or more accurately, when people stop buying them completely). Still, at least it's quite a...
View ArticleFeature: The Singles Bar: 13th August 2012
Feeling the effects of the post-Olympics hangover? Maybe a peruse of our weekly singles review column will cheer you up a bit?There's been a definite feeling of gloom sweeping across the nation...
View ArticleFeature: The Singles Bar: 22nd October 2012
Here it is, a little later than planned, the most comprehensive weekly singles review that you'll find anywhere on the web (that we know of)! Glancing at the website of a certain venerable music...
View ArticleFeature: The Singles Bar: 29th October 2012
Make your way past the half-hearted Halloween decorations that adorn The Singles Bar this week, and you'll find reviews of the latest tracks by Justin Bieber, Robbie Williams and SebRochford's amazing...
View ArticleFeature: The Singles Bar: 12th November 2012
It's been a bit of a gloomy day all round, not least here in The Singles Bar, which was left temporarily rudderless thanks to Joe being otherwise detained. But fear not, as we've still managed to put...
View ArticleFeature: The Singles Bar: 10th December 2012
It's only two weeks to Christmas, and yet the singles charts are still looking decidedly un-festive. Can your hosts at The Singles Bar find their holiday spirit and rediscover the meaning of Christmas?...
View ArticleFeature: My Teenage Dream Ended: A Reconsideration
When reality TV star Farrah Abraham released her debut album, a bizarre mixture of heavy autotune, unstructured songs and dead-eyed lyrics, it was largely ignored or, worse, openly laughed at. However,...
View ArticleFeature: Joe Blogs #5: You WILL Listen To Guitar Music
If guitar groups are on the way out (Mr. Epstein), why is the nation's most popular new music station forcing us to listen to them? Will any of them ever make a song as good as Call Me Maybe?“We’re...
View ArticleFeature: Perfect Pop #5: Little Jackie - The Stoop
In this resurrection of an almost-forgotten series of features, Joe Rivers looks back at an album that failed where other, inferior records succeeded.If you were to take a basic chemistry set, a book...
View ArticleFeature: Overlooked Albums #30: The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today!
We all know about Pet Sounds, but Angel Aguilar has the story of another of The Beach Boys' records - one that's largely ignored when considering their extraordinary canon.There’s no question that Pet...
View ArticleFeature: Before They Were Famous: Craig Barnes and the Greatest Song of All Time
GabbieNirenburg relives her days of running a college record label and catches up with an old friend who has a novel approach to keeping the songwriting process fresh.When I was in college, I lived out...
View ArticleFeature: Remembering SOPHIE
A year after the accident which proved fatal, No Ripcord looks back on the life and career of SOPHIE: a singular artist whose influence on the current musical landscape stretches far and wide.Art’s...
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