Latest articles by Scott Rowley
Cyber Monday record player deals 2024: This is your last chance to grab a turntable discount
Cyber Monday is over but there are still a number of discounts on turntables, but you'll need to be quick to pick up a bargain
Cyber Monday vinyl deals 2024: The majority of deals are now over, but there are still price drops to be found
Cyber Monday brought a huge pile of vinyl discounts to the table and while most of the deals are now over, you can still find something special... if you're quick
Cyber Monday music deals 2024: The big day of sale is over for another year - but you might still find a bargain or two
Cyber Monday has closed its doors for another year and most of the deals are done. However, you might still find something if you're very, very quick
Old blokes: What is it with them and when will they stop? A sort-of review of the Sex Pistols and Frank Carter at Bush Hall
How Jane’s Addiction invented the 90s
Topics covered: Jane's Vs Guns, some of the greatest lyrics ever written, the birth of the "Alternative Nation" and other Gen X angst…
"I just knew I needed to do something that I was in control of": Slash on his star-studded debut solo album
Slash's band split. He was called a 'sell-out' and 'a cancer'. And through it all he emerged with the first great rock album of the last decade
Karl Wallinger of World Party has died, aged 66
Karl Wallinger of World Party, a former member of the Waterboys, died on Sunday, confirms publicist
"The whole thing sounds like it was carved out of caramel and boiled in a pot with gunpowder, sunshine and jazz – mad and lovely and addictive": Was The 3 Clubmen EP the best record you missed in 2023?
XTC's Andy Partridge and friends released an overlooked EP of luminous alt.pop in 2023. But it's not too late to join the club...
"The Bathers are literate, expressive and romantic – which in a tough town like Glasgow is pretty much the most rebellious thing you can be": Sirenesque by The Bathers, the best-kept secret and weirdest anomaly in Scottish music
Meet the Nick Cave of Kelvingrove: Now in their fourth decade and their seventh studio album, The Bathers might just have made the album of the year…
“I’m not interested in my own angst. I like a good story. Violence. A bit of sex, a bit of drinking, a bit of drugs, y’knoworramean?” A tribute to Shane MacGowan, the genius lyricist who thought the music was more important than the words
As the music of the 80s became more polished, synthesised and over-produced, The Pogues took it back to its rudiments. And at the heart of it was Shane MacGowan and his lyrics: funny, romantic, full of characters and stories
I just bought this tiny Bluetooth amp for less than £50 in the Black Friday sale and it’s already changed the way I listen to music
Put your smart speaker in the bin. This tiny Bluetooth amp will blow your mind and your speakers for just £50
If I didn’t already have one, I would buy the Positive Grid Spark Go this Black Friday. Yeah, it’s a serious bit of kit – but it’s also perfect for beginners and rubbish guitarists like me
It’s one of 2023’s hottest guitar products and with 30% off, it’s the perfect time to give the Positive Grid Spark Go a try, whether you're a beginner or a part-timer
Looking for a vinyl bargain this Black Friday? Let me help you part with the best £12 you’ll ever spend on vinyl: Silver Sun’s debut album
Like the Beach Boys boozing with Big Star, or Rush getting beaten up by the Ramones: The one album that you should take a chance on this Black Friday is Silver Sun’s debut album at 45% off
30 musicians on the album that changed their life as a kid
Members of Kiss, Black Sabbath, Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Rage Against The Machine and more reveal the albums that set them on the path to rock stardom
“Right Here, Right Now captured the optimism of the Berlin wall coming down. We’re at the other end of the spectrum now”: How Prince’s Sign O’ The Times inspired Jesus Jones’ biggest hit
Inspired by Prince and the fall of the Berlin wall, Jesus Jones’ optimistic hit Right Here Right Now was born out of depression and powered by dodgy samples
How the CIA inspired Firestarter, why Axl Rose hates JD Salinger, David Bowie’s Orwell musical and why Jimmy Savile was the first ever club DJ: The books and stories that influenced classic songs
How books by Hemingway, Stephen King, the Marquis De Sade etc influenced Metallica, Nirvana, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush, The Prodigy, The Jam, David Bowie and more
"If they liked you, they’d smack you. And if they didn’t like you, you were dead!" Ian Hunter on hanging out with Bowie, working with Taylor Hawkins and playing for the London Mafia
Back with an all-star cast on an amazing new album, Ian Hunter on working with Jeff Beck and Taylor Hawkins, punk rock, Alex Harvey, David Bowie, and sex and drugs in the 70s
Music photographer Mick Hutson has died, aged 58
Hanging out of helicopters, stopping the New York traffic, sweet-talking kidnappers: a celebration of Mick Hutson, music photographer
“I couldn’t breathe!”: Duff McKagan’s new song was written in the middle of a panic attack – and got him through it
Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan releases a new solo EP and reveals his long-term struggles with panic attacks and depression – and how Slash supported him from the beginning
Let's Dance: How Nile Rodgers transformed David Bowie from arty outsider to global superstar
For David Bowie in 1983, art-rock and clown suits were in the past. He wanted to become a bona fide superstar. So he recruited the man nicknamed The Hitmaker
“I’m not gay!” How Bowie backtracked on his bisexuality for Let's Dance
In 1977, Metro’s Criminal World was considered “too gay” for the BBC. By 1983, it was too suggestive for David Bowie too
"Where is my dog poop?": How porn, poop and chicken coops derailed Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
The mindboggling tale of Buckethead, his beloved wolf poo and the pornographic chicken shack
Terry Hall, singer of The Specials, has died aged 63
The frontman for the Two-Tone legends The Specials – as well as Fun Boy Three and The Colourfield – has died
