Books Reviews

Five Sonicbond books. Five legendary catalogues. One enormous musical rabbit hole. 🤘📖🔥 There is a dangerous sentence every music obsessive knows: “I’ll just listen to one album.” Absolute bollocks. One album becomes another. Then you start reading about the recording sessions. Then Spotify gets involved. Then you’re investigating a B-side from 1974 at half past […]

High voltage, filthy riffs and decades of rock ’n’ roll examined one song at a time 🤘⚡ There are complicated bands. There are mysterious bands. There are bands whose music requires seventeen paragraphs, a university degree and a diagram to explain what the hell is happening. And then there’s AC/DC. Plug guitar in. Turn amplifier […]

The quiet architect behind Genesis finally gets centre stage — and it’s about bloody time When people talk about Genesis, certain images tend to appear immediately. Peter Gabriel dressed as a flower. 🌻 Phil Collins behind the drums — and eventually standing out front. Steve Hackett making guitars sound like they’ve arrived from another dimension. […]

From ‘Love Me Do’ to ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ — Sonicbond’s On Track series tackles the years when four lads from Liverpool changed absolutely everything There are bands. There are massive bands. There are bands that define generations. And then there are The Beatles. Trying to write about John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo […]