News Billie Joe Armstrong has been confirmed for Morrissey’s new cover album by Rianna Manuel Back in December, famously controversial The Smiths frontman Morrissey announced that he would be releasing a cover album. Since then, the album has been surrounded with rumour and intrigue as a…
News “What a farce”: Johnny Marr slams ‘Classically Smiths’ implosion by Happy Johnny Marr, the former guitarist for The Smiths, has slammed his former bandmates, Mike Joyce and and Andy Rourke, for going ahead with a concert series called Classically Smiths, which…
News So close yet so far: SZA and Johnny Marr were almost on the Splendour line-up by Liz Campbell Looks like former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and singer/songwriter SZA were contenders for the Splendour in the Grass 2018 line-up, but missed out in the end. The iconic artists appeared…
News The Smiths have dug up an unheard demo version of ‘I Know It’s Over’. Listen and weep by Happy The Smiths have dug up a previously unreleased demo for I Know It’s Over from The Queen Is Dead. The track will appear on the deluxe reissue of the seminal 1986 record,…
Lists Counting down to the apocalypse: a world-ending playlist by Sydney’s Accidental President by Happy Sydney-based rockers Accidental President got together as a band under one philosophy; that the world was going to shit. Their hard-rock righteousness is the perfect delivery vehicle for this disgust,…
News See The Beatles, Daft Punk and more become meticulously Lego-fied with surgical accuracy by Happy Everybody loves The Beatles. Everybody loves Daft Punk. Everybody loves Lego. Even if one of these things aren’t like the others, there’s no doubt there are some cultural points of…
Lists 7 low budget film clips that prove you don’t need the big bucks to be remembered forever by Riley Fitzgerald The influence of the music video may have waned since the heyday of MTV, but they can still play a pivotal role in how we enjoy, discover and define our…
Lists Part 2 of our series of winter records you need to hear before you die (of the cold) by Happy So many great albums are intrinsically attached to the quintessence of a season. Music has this incredible ability to mimic the tone of reality with a combination of timbre, texture,…
Lists When bands break up, it causes all kinds of heartbreak. Here are 6 reunions that need to happen. Pt.1 by Kantali James With so many bands breaking up and making up, it is hard to keep up. Some split up way before their time and others maybe milking it a little too…
News Rare demos from Morrissey and The Smiths emerge via fan site by Emily Mathison Numerous rare and never before released recordings from Morrissey and The Smiths have emerged via a Morrissey fan site forum member. Uploaded to a Soundcloud account, which goes by Uncleskinny, the…
