Jeff Buckley is one of those artists that became so well regarded following his death that I think many people reject him out of hand. I think the easy attitude to adopt is ‘No one can be *that* good’ or ‘They only heap praise on him because he died so young’. It’s very similar to [...]

Remember the halcyon days of 2006? When Myspace was mighty and Lilly Allen held the world by her pinky because she had 12 million friends on her profile (a slight exaggeration)? The Arctic Monkeys were forged in the NME fires of that time, and certainly would not be the massive stars they are now without [...]