Mark Beaumont

Trendspotting – 5 Things We’ve Found In NME’s Greatest Albums List

Sure, it's dominated by white men playing guitars, t'was always thus in lists compiled by writers for rock'n'roll magazines. But in piecing together this...

How We Settled The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time Once And For All

When a magazine with sixty years of grisly and glittering history behind it decides to mark its new era with a definitive list of...

10 Geeky Facts About Muse’s ‘Absolution’

On this day in 2003 (September 28), Muse were at number one with their third studio album 'Absolution. Now, when 'Origin Of Symmetry' turned...

Bestival 2013: 5 Things Everyone Was Talking About

It's the end of summer festival season. As HMS Bestival steers a course hard for homeward, feeling like we’ve hit our own personal icebergs...

20 Majestic Rock and Pop Songs About Sci-Fi

When publishing a novel about a metaphysical being that shares people's psyches for the last six minutes of their lives – as I did...

Graham Coxon’s 10 Greatest Moments

The quiet man of Britpop with the broiling punk rock depths, Graham Coxon is one of the icons of British popular music. We can't...

Memo To Rock Stars – This Is How You Use Public Transport

Like so much in life, Madonna started it. In September 2010 it emerged that She-Ma was in the habit of riding the F train...

The Ultimate Britpop Playlist

It was twenty years ago today that Sgt Anderson taught the world to slap its backside with a microphone, as the release of Suede's...

30 Albums To Make Your Life Bearable In 2013

Seven weeks into 2013 and it's already shaping up to be a vintage year, what with Everything Everything, My Bloody Valentine, Johnny Marr, Foals,...

7 Things That Were Wrong With The Brits

If one word summed up the 2013 Brit Awards, it was WHY? Why Justin Timberlake? Why Ben Howard? Why Robbie Williams? Why bore us...
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