Pop Spotlight

Picture credit: David Leigh Dodd Wendy James announces UK tour in support of her recently released album, The Shape of History. Written, produced and mixed by James and recorded in West London and New York […]

Image credit J Moore Roland Gift presents Fine Young Cannibals at 40 anniversary shows. Forty years since double Brit-Award winners, The Fine Young Cannibals (FYC), stormed into the UK charts with their debut single and […]

Toyah Willcox has announced two special October shows in London and Coventry. Celebrating ‘The Best of Toyah’ will see the singer perform hits from across her career, treating audiences to her signature powerhouse vocals, infectious […]

Mixes Of A Lost World, conceived and compiled by Robert Smith, is a new remix collection of tracks from The Cure’s acclaimed No.1 2024 album, Songs Of A Lost World. The set features brand new remixes […]

Hansa International Japanese cover 1981  Japanese Boy was a hit pretty much everywhere except, oddly enough, Japan. According to singer Mary Sandeman, it was because the melody sounded too Chinese.  No matter, as elsewhere, this throbbing […]

Various Artists – More Sin: Box Of Sin 2 (Demon) ★★★★½ Disco Discharge’s second round-up of the tracks that rocked the gay clubs of the 80s is a delight – and an education Gay clubs […]

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A-HA SPECIAL ISSUE ➔ Marking the 40th anniversary of a-ha’s classic debut album Hunting High And Low, this brand new issue of Classic Pop Presents celebrates the career and legacy of one of the 80s […]

How an opportunistic meeting of a pop prophet in waiting and a fledgling powerhouse vocalist led to Upstairs At Eric’s – a stripped-back synth-pop masterclass that remains timeless A helping of creative tension is often […]

Review: Dead Or Alive – Youthquake Reissue (Demon) ★★★★☆ Turning Pete Burns from a cult figure to a star was traumatic for everyone involved. But, now 40 years on, Youthquake is mostly a testament to […]

Picture credit: Mark Seliger A 25th anniversary edition of Britney Spears’ Oops!… I Did It Again will be released on Friday 16 May. In 1999,  Britney reached international superstar status with the massive chart-topping commercial […]

Picture credit: Tom Jackson Pulp return with More, their first new album in almost 24 years. “This is the first Pulp album since We Love Life in 2001,” says frontman Jarvis Cocker. ”Yes: the first […]