Lists The 20 best covers of all time, from here to eternity by Luke Saunders Every so often, cover songs comes along that are so incredible they shine with a vigour and vibrance of their own. These are the 20…
News Third Man Records to release archival Johnny Cash live album by Luka Simonetti A previously unreleased Johnny Cash live album is set for release through Jack White’s Third Man Records. A Night To Remember stands the test of…
Enmore Audio News Two centuries of acoustic craft: the story of Martin guitars by Dave Stano C.F. Martin & Co. Guitars is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous guitar producers to ever exist. You can see Martin guitars in the…
Features When Africa met the West: how the marriage of the fiddle and banjo birthed country music by Luke Saunders Dredged up from the silt, smoke, and mud of America’s most poverty-stricken came the birth of country music. While many historians point to 1927 as…
Features Why It Mattered: Johnny Cash – ‘At San Quentin’ by Luke Saunders On New Years Day 1959, Johnny Cash played his first-ever prison show at San Quentin. A frosty winter’s morning in San Francisco, Cash was not…
News In a parallel universe: James Bond theme songs that didn’t make the cut by Claire Adema You may not be aware that there have been quite a few potential James Bond theme songs that didn’t make the cut over the years….
Enmore Audio Features The ‘Holey’ Grail: the legend of Willie Nelson’s Trigger by Dan Shaw The history of modern music is replete with significant partnerships, but the vision of Willie Nelson and his guitar, the infamous Trigger, is more recognisable…
Features ‘Blue Suede Shoes’: from Perkins to Presley by Luke Saunders There are straight-up classics, genius compositions, and groundbreaking tunes that pierce through the ozone of the wider public consciousness. Blue Suede Shoes is the latter….
Features Hurt: From Reznor to Cash by Luke Saunders When Nine Inch Nails lynchpin Trent Reznor wrote Hurt he was suffering from a periodic bout of serious depression. Described by Reznor as a “a little…
Enmore Audio Features The evolution of the Neumann U 47: the most copied microphone in history by Dan Shaw Neumann is the hallowed German audio company that’s been at the business end of the signal chain for more than 90 years. Most prestigious in…
Features The 25 Best ’60s Songs to stick it to the man by Luke Saunders A monumental decade of social and political upheaval, the 1960s saw the Civil Rights Movement, The Cuban Missile Crisis and the assassinations of both Martin…
Features Here are the 12 best Christmas albums of all time by Luke Saunders As the year, and indeed the decade, winds down to a close we have jumped into the jolly spirit early to collect our 12 favourite…
News New Johnny Cash documentary The Gift to go deeper than ever before by Luke Haggart For those who were spellbound by the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line back in 2005, or maybe got around the 2008 parody flick with John…
