Author name: The Editor

Appetite for Destruction is one of the biggest selling debut albums in rock history, which is a mystery to me,

Prog rock – not for me, mate. As I mentioned in the review of So, the whiff of middle-aged, socially

I’m not into prog-rock – it carries the whiff of slightly overweight middle-aged men who hand paint small plastic models

Robert Smith, lead singer of goth rock band The Cure, put it like this: “Duran Duran (…) loved us, and

To continue the discussion from the Remain in Light review about classifying late 70s / early 80s music; are Tears

In the Remain in Light review, I suggested that the defining feature of new wave music is the synthesiser –

So what exactly is “new wave” music? And what is its relationship to this thing called “post-punk”? Am I expected

Madonna, Prince, and Michael Jackson are typically said to comprise the (un)holy triumvirate of world bestriding 80s pop universalism, the

Purple Rain sounds like futuristic jazz music; a unique, somewhat chaotic, almost sci-fi blend of pop, rock, funk, R’n’B, and