Like Punk Never Happened - Brian McCloskey's Smash Hits Archive

17/01/2025

13/01/2025

"I have to remind myself that this was something I wrote in 20 minutes on the piano one Sunday morning 45 years ago."

‘I wrote it in 20 minutes one Sunday morning and there have now been more than 50 cover versions. My favourite is the brooding one Beck did for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’

30/12/2024

"We've always had a reputation for making mistakes on stage...."

Boring Bob Grover of The Piranhas died in hospital on Christmas Eve 💔

29/12/2024

This is a remix of a song I co-wrote: the lyric is mine; Circuit3 did all the rest.

Play loud and dance as if no-one is watching.Available on the AnalogueTrash Label Sampler Vol. 8https://analoguetrash.bandcamp.com/album/analoguetrash-label-...

23/12/2024

lacrimae pro timores 🎶

Sorry I've been gone for a while, s**t got intense @ but I'm back with another cover I have always been looking forward to do. Also trying something new wi...

17/12/2024

"It began to shape a new generation of DJs and producers, with the late Andrew Weatherall once recalling that hearing Nitzer Ebb's thumping Join in the Chant in a club was the closest he ever felt to God."

As documented in a new book, electronic body music swept Belgium and Germany as its artists strove to make something entirely new – but their militaristic look became controversial

21/11/2024

This short play has made me weep so many times over the last ten years....❤️

A tale of music and memory is unspooled through a schoolgirl's mixtape in this microplay starring Ruby Ashbourne Serkis and Tobias Menzies

21/11/2024

"There's something really beautiful about having physical copies of music."

Jula began sampling albums from her father’s extensive collection on Instagram. Her ‘listening parties’ connected her with people who shared his passion

19/11/2024

"Fifty years ago this month, Kraftwerk released Autobahn, a 22-minute 43-second song about the German road network. Astonishingly for a 22-minute 43-second song about the German road network, it somehow managed to change the musical landscape forever."

Fifty years ago, the electronic pioneers released a 23-minute song about a road – and changed pop music for ever. Our writer hits the speed-limit-free highways of Düsseldorf and Hamburg in search of its futuristic brilliance