Features Music ‘Blue Suede Shoes’: from Perkins to Presley by Luke Saunders Blues Suede Shoes is one of those rare songs that lives two extremely successful lives. First with rockabilly singer Carl Perkins, and then with The…
Features Lists Music Pop Culture The 20 best covers of all time, from here to eternity by Luke Saunders Every so often, cover songs come along that are so incredible they shine with a vibrance of their own. These are the 20 best covers…
Enmore Audio Lists Embark on a world tour of 12 iconic recording studios by Borna Crvelin From the world-famous to venues you’ve never heard of – get your backpack on and take a tour of 12 of the most unique recording…
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 Country icon Willie Nelson and Trigger – his broken-down acoustic guitar – have been together for five decades. It doesn’t look like they’ll be parting…
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 Not only does it look like a silver bullet, but generations of engineers have also treated the Neumann U 47 as such. Let’s take a…
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…
