Elvis Costello tells Paul Stokes about his lockdown life and new album Hey Clockface as he guides us through Baker's Dozen tales including being taken under the sinful wing of Iggy Pop and the time he nearly joined Blur. Costello portrait by Ray Di Pietro
Elvis Costello tells Paul Stokes about his lockdown life and new album Hey Clockface as he guides us through Baker's Dozen tales including being taken under the sinful wing of Iggy Pop and the time he nearly joined Blur. Costello portrait by Ray Di Pietro
Keeley Forsyth’s debut album is an intimate document chronicling harrowing times. But, as she tells Derek Robertson, such darkness lies deep within us all, serving less as artistic inspiration and more as defining our shared humanity
On the release of a new compilation of Lou Reed’s 1960s compositions at Pickwick Records, Wayne Gooderham surveys the sprawling solo career that was to come later, and picks out ten key tracks that serve as guides to an intimidating post-Velvets discography
It cost the band their drummer, the support of the UK press and their major-label deal... yet twenty years after the peak of Britpop, Infernal Love looks like a lost classic of mid-90s rock, says Kiran Acharya