KIKAGAKU MOYO - Kumoyo Island (Guruguru Brain)

Susumu Hirasawa is more widely recognised for his latter-career soundtrack compositions

After the success of her breakthrough debut, Honey for Wounds, British-Nigerian singer-songwriter Ego Ella May is tackling the difficult second album with her new release, Good Intentions. Maybe it’s the self-deprecating Brit in her, but May is embracing for her flop...

The hegemony of Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe in the circuit of rising youth bands in New York around the middle of the 1960s was consolidated at the end of 1969 with the launch of the LP “Cosa Nuestra”. The cover photograph, a Henri Wolfe original, recreates a...

The Eagles "Hotel California" / Chris Isaak "Blue Hotel" / Procol Harum "Grand Hotel" / Della Reese "There's a Small Hotel" / Ann-Margret "Heartbreak Hotel" / Eric Burdon & The Animals "Hotel Hell" / Stevie Nicks "Imperial Hotel"

Legendary singer Tony Bennett dies aged 96. Bennett was born in Queens, New York, in 1926, the grandson of immigrants from the impoverished Italian province of Calabria. He has enjoyed a glorious career since first finding success in the 1950s, performing traditional...