RC Presents… Stevie Wonder
I’m currently immersed in the editing of this special edition of Record Collector, coming out in May. One of the really fun things about working on an RC Presents title…
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Tori Amos Interview Due mid-April 2026
I have a six-page Tori Amos interview due imminently in Record Collector (May 2026 issue). It was done over the telephone, something I’m finding harder and harder (a problem I’m…
Desmond Child & Rouge Interview
Like most followers of the last few decades of popular music, I’m more than a little familiar with the name Desmond Child. I was one of those children who always…
Lotti Golden Interview
Motor-Cycle (1969), Lotti Golden’s first album, made when she was still in her teens, doesn’t sound like anything else. But only the canniest people caught on to it at the…
Linda Waterfall
I was delightedly surprised when I discovered that a Linda Waterfall album was part of the Record Store Day 2025 UK line-up. Delighted, because she was truly brilliant. Surprised because…
Fanny Interview
When did you first hear Fanny? Were you lucky enough to get into their music as it was coming out in the first half of the 1970s? Did you only…
Rita Jean Bodine Speaks!
I know I’m not alone in absolutely adoring the far-too-few albums by American singer/songwriter, Rita Jean Bodine, who cut such a memorable dash in the mid-1970s with her flamboyant sense…
William Lyall – Solo Casting
I was so deterred by the loss of two years of content that I hadn’t had the heart to pick up where I left off in terms of highlighting interesting…
The Guardian G2: A Moment That Changed Me
I wrote an entry in the G2 series, A Moment That Changed Me, reflecting on how some tenderly-spoken words (and their implication) in a hospital room sent me on an…
Cidny Bullens Interview
The restocking of my site (in the summer, an update somehow banished two years of content) goes on. I wish I understood more of my subconscious processes; it might be…