Swimming with sharks: A critical view of the future of the music industry
It was Courtney Love, the well-known singer, actress and walking whirlwind of disasters who famously laid out the economics of the music industry for all to see. The picture she painted, of a…
Captain Beefheart and “Bat Chain Puller”
Captain Beefheart aka Don van Vliet remains one of the most creative and enigmatic figures in the history of pop music. Shrouded in an aura of myth and madness, the Captain had a…
Underground Resistance: McCarthy, Easterhouse and The Enemy Within
McCarthy and Easterhouse were two underground bands that shone out amidst the sludge of anodyne 80’s pop both musically and lyrically, and were inevitably ignored by the record-buying public in part for the…
The Specials and Rock Against Racism
Over time the entire body of work of any given musical artist becomes boiled down to a specific purpose; sometimes a specific song. History allows us to look back and classify, often also…
