The first of this week’s bangers is Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams, the first solo record in over a decade from Patterson Hood. The album was born out of a friendship with producer Chris Funk (The Decemberists). The pair would often perform together for fun and, during Hood’s solo tours, made tentative plans to one…
This week’s key releases open with Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, who have reunited some fourteen years after the historic success of their first collaboration, Raising Sand (2007), which reached #2 on the UK album chart, generated multi-platinum sales and earned six Grammy awards including Album of the Year. Like its predecessor, Raise The Roof…
This year marks 25 years since Oasis’ two iconic, record-breaking live concerts at Knebworth Park in Hertfordshire on 10th and 11th August 1996. The shows were both the pinnacle of the band’s success and a landmark gathering for a generation of young people. Released alongside the cinema debut of a feature-length documentary film of the…