Before Thriller, Bruce Swedien Recorded McLuhan’s Anomaly
Before Thriller, Bruce Swedien recorded McLuhan’s Anomaly. The Chicago band’s own accounts trace its horror films, media ideas and four ambitious pieces.
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Before Orange Is the New Black, Annie Golden Put The Shirts First
Annie Golden’s route from CBGB to Hair began with The Shirts. A 1979 interview and the restored Paradise concert show why the band remained her priority.
Amanda Thorpe & Philip Shelley Announce Late Night, Albert Bridge
Twenty years of songwriting together lead to thirteen originals. The title-track single arrives October 30; the duo’s first jointly billed album follows January 15.
Bates Motel Asked Sparks for a Producer. Ron and Russell Wanted a Band.
Les Bohem hoped Sparks might produce Bates Motel. Ron and Russell Mael wanted the musicians instead. The surviving live tapes explain the connection.
Peter Daltrey Announces Three Windows: A New Album and a Trilogy Completed
Peter Daltrey completes his poetry-and-song trilogy with Three Windows, out December 11. Explore the 14-track CD, his personally sequenced vinyl edition and “Takeaway.”
Anton Barbeau Finds a Way Home on Come Home To Me
A rediscovered cassette and a farewell to a childhood home feed into Barbeau’s new fourteen-song album.
Robert Callender’s Le Musée de l’Impressionnisme Returns for Its 50th Anniversary
A Paris museum visit became a musical stage show. Callender’s twenty-track album returns December 11 with Prof. Stoned remastering and an illustrated booklet.
Unicorn’s Last Orders Opens the Archives for a 37-Track Double CD
Rare live recordings, studio demos and a song completed fifty years later: inside Unicorn’s two-disc Last Orders collection.
Bates Motel Nearly Had Stephen Stills Produce Them. The Record Deal Never Came
Les Bohem and David Kendrick revisit Bates Motel’s blazing LA club years, near misses with major producers and the cassettes that became Live in LA 1980.
John Howard Packs Seventy-Three Years of Memories into Overnight Bags
John Howard’s new eleven-song album turns Chelsea glamour, an Abbey Road morning, the AIDS years, a father’s Alzheimer’s and the touring life into assured, piano-led pop.
The Psychedelic Band Colleges Tried to Stop from “Brainwashing” Audiences
Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera turned strobe-lit “brainwashing” panic into one of British psychedelia’s sharpest debuts—now restored with essential singles, demos and rarities.
The Fox Recorded For Fox Sake Overnight. Then Black Sabbath Changed Everything
The Fox thought their twelve-hour Radio Luxembourg session was an audition. It became their only album—now expanded with four unheard recordings and restored US artwork.
WD Miller
He Left the Wall of Amps Behind. W.D. Miller Found Something Just as Heavy in a Quiet Room.
The Florida-born, Kentucky-based songwriter turns metal history, family, depression and grief into the unhurried Americana of Child of the Kindly South.
Mark Wirtz
'My Musical Life Was an Odyssey': Mark Wirtz in His Own Words
With Think Like A Key Music preparing to reissue Wirtz's Capitol albums Balloon and Hothouse Smiles this July, we publish this 2001 interview for the first time.
Tim Goulding
Tim Goulding: VI Decades at Taylor Galleries, Dublin
Dr. Strangely Strange's Tim Goulding surveys six decades of painting at Taylor Galleries, Dublin. July 16 - August 22, 2026.
Orang-Utan
Orang-Utan: The Album They Never Knew They Made
A cult heavy rock classic, recorded in a single afternoon at De Lane Lea in 1970 and released without the band's knowledge, finally gets its definitive edition from the original master tape. Lead single "Magic Playground" is streaming now.
The 23rd Turnoff
The 1967 Liverpool Single YouTube Just Rediscovered, and Why Will Sergeant Never Forgot It
Fifty-eight years after it sank without trace, a single song by a band that never made a second record is finding its audience through a phone screen.
Judge Smith
The Simpsons Called It “a Peter Hammill Song.” The Man Who Wrote It Is Used to That.
A Simpsons writer reached for a Peter Hammill song to explore a crisis of faith. She didn’t know the man who actually wrote it has been handing away credit for sixty years.
Rome 56
Rome 56 Bring Their New York Power Pop to the Cavern Club for International Pop Overthrow Liverpool
The New York power-pop outfit led by Arthur Lamonica of The Shirts play their first IPO Liverpool this week, with two sets at the Cavern Club.
Ed Welch
Ed Welch's Clowns: The Lost Masterpiece Before the Fame
Before Blockbusters, before The Wurzels, before the LSO, a 23-year-old classical prodigy and an American folk legend made one quietly perfect pop album. Think Like A Key Music's remastered and expanded edition of Ed Welch's Clowns arrives May 22, 2026.
Dr. Strangely Strange
Gary Moore Was Still a Teenager When Dr. Strangely Strange Went Electric
Gary Moore’s path to guitar stardom passed through an unlikely record: a Dublin folk trio’s attempt to get louder without losing its peculiar character.
Nirvana
Patrick Campbell-Lyons (1943–2026): The Original Nirvana Has Lost Its Dreamer
The Irish-born co-founder of London’s original Nirvana, the man behind “Rainbow Chaser” and one of the first narrative concept albums ever made, has died at 82.
St Johns Wood Affair
St Johns Wood Affair: "Memory Lane" Gets Its Own Visualiser
A standout track from the band's second album 2 draws on a childhood spent in the shadow of Badfinger's darkest chapter. Watch the new visualiser now.
Ex Norwegian
Ex Norwegian Take On One of Folk-Rock's Sacred Texts — and Drag It Into a Florida Parking Lot
The Miami Beach power-pop shapeshifters tackle Richard and Linda Thompson's folk-rock masterpiece live from a Pompano Beach brewery.