Hope Downs

Released last year the Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever album ‘Hope Downs’ has an upbeat but raggedy feel, which I hope to be repeated when I see them at the end of the month Coming in at around 37 minutes it’s also short and sharp and eschews the current trend to create albums that last several …

Groupie Love

Once in the dim and distant past being a groupie was something many young women happily aspired to be. The evidence has been collected in a new book called ‘Groupies and other Electric Ladies’. It features photographs of the leading ladies of the scene taken by Baron Wolman for Rolling Stone Magazine in 1969, along …

Sticky Fingers

From the rather puerile title, which conjures up images of wanking boys in public schools, to the in your face crotch shot of the cover there is much to dislike about Rolling Stones seminal and recently re-released album ‘Sticky Fingers’ but on careful listening much, much more to love. In fact for me it’s the …