This month…

Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR

Mike Patton and the Avett Brothers join forces to create a work of immense beauty.

For a band who’ve spent the last months playing to thousands in North American venues, it could have felt uneasily sobering to pull up outside Berlin’s Columbia Theater. Just a couple of years short o

The bringing together of The Blow Monkeys and The Christians – both headliners in their own right – unites two acts indebted to late-60s and early-70s soul. For The Christians, the influence of the Mo

Fifty years on from their explosive debut single “New Rose”, THE DAMNED have evolved from punk pioneers to national treasures. But as a new album pays tribute to Brian James, their fallen co-founder, bandmates Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies – along with sundry eyewitnesses and ne’erdo-wells – recall the volatile beginnings, creative vision and incorrigible spirit of The Damned’s groundbreaking first act. “It was CID, villains and the Captain in a nurse’s outfit,” hears Peter Watts