Things are shaking up around BIYL! For nearly a year now I’ve carried on solo, with the occasional guest post from my buddies at I Am The Crime or Future Rocket Soul. Lately, I’ve been thinking that it would be nice to have another voice on the site on a regular basis, and as fortune [...]

Seems like there have been about 17 million retrospectives on New Order & Joy Division in the last 20 years. Substance, Permanent, The Best of New Order, International, Retro, Singles, Heart & Soul…the list goes on. Understandably so, as few bands reach the iconic status that those 4 lads from Manchester did. Even fewer survive [...]

Cover songs are a tricky business. By default, they’re forced into endless comparisons with the original and it’s a very rare artist that can actually improve upon and surpass a track that’s presumably pretty darn popular/iconic to begin with. There are obviously a few who have managed it – I’d say Jimi Hendrix had a [...]