As senior columnists and musicians complain that younger generations are no longer both musically and politically engaged, David Stubbs argues that rock and pop have never been the defiantly countercultural revolutionary corps that many claim
As The Rocky Horror Picture Show reaches its 45th birthday, Simon Price looks at the cultural history of the film, the stage show and the cult that's grown up around it, and asks the crucial question: strip all that baggage away, and is it any good?
Against all parental advice, Ned Raggett finds communing with Marissa Nadler's Strangers to be an acutely rewarding experience, nodding to the canon of Americana, but stepping out alone into the spotlight of a much broader and conflicted contemporary music landscape