Features Oasis – ‘What’s The Story (Morning Glory)’: Why It Mattered by James Peppercorn In 1995, Oasis produced an album so universal, so concise, so monolithic, that rarely has a band touched so many people while riding so high….
Features Manic Street Preachers – ‘The Holy Bible’: Why It Mattered by James Peppercorn The Holy Bible from Manic Street Preachers is a document of pure truths, showing us our world’s horrors and failings in their most confronting form….
Features Pixies – ‘Bossanova’: Why It Mattered by James Peppercorn Following a gruelling and self-destructive tour supporting their 1989 masterpiece Doolittle, Pixies were on the brink of collapse. Nervous exhaustion from consistent gigging plus bitter…
Features The Clash: the only band that matters by James Peppercorn Of all the artists who “changed everything”, The Clash stand loud and proud. Over the course of their seven years (only taking into account the…
Music LISTEN: Kid Cudi feat. Eminem – ‘The Adventures of Moon Man & Slim Shady’ by James Peppercorn The Moon Man himself is back with a little help from his friends. Kid Cudi has been releasing some impressive collaborations in the past few…
News A UK care home has recreated a stack of iconic album covers by James Peppercorn Lockdown left most people with a lot of time on their hands. Many people had time to sit down and listen to music, read books,…
News Coldplay release early version of their ‘Yellow’ music video by James Peppercorn It can be very easy to hate Coldplay nowadays. However, back when they first appeared in the industry, they wrote some of the most tuneful…
News Nick Cave pays tribute to Nina Simone in latest Red Hand Files by James Peppercorn Nick Cave has often been vocal about his heroes. From praising Dylan to Leonard Cohen, all the way back to his past muse PJ Harvey,…
Features Why It Mattered: Slipknot – ‘Slipknot’ by James Peppercorn Twenty-one years ago, nine masked hoodlums from Iowa released an album that changed the face (literally and figuratively) of metal forever. At a time when…
Music LISTEN: The Flaming Lips – ‘My Religion Is You’ by James Peppercorn With the announcement of a brand new album, American Head, The Flaming Lips have released the first sneak peek from the record, My Religion Is…
News Space Finally! NASA have created a perfume that smells like space by James Peppercorn Who knew that space actually smelt like something? Well, it does, and NASA have created a perfume to help astronauts prepare for that smell. Not…
News The White Stripes release footage of their first-ever television performance by James Peppercorn The White Stripes are one of the greatest live acts of all time. Even though it’s just Meg and Jack making the cacophony of noise…
News The Rolling Stones have threatened Donald Trump with a lawsuit by James Peppercorn To the surprise of absolutely no one, President Trump is being forced to stop playing songs by artists who don’t support him. No later than…
