Hi, Welcome to NEVER HEARD THAT. This weeks feature track by US band STONE TEMPLE PILOTS is a short one – but it is an important one. The lead song off their third album, it signified that this was a band that was seriously growing from their hard rock / Read More
Hi, Welcome to this weeks NEVER HEARD THAT. I think that is must help when you have a few strings in your musical bow. Todays feature duo, Goldfrapp, have that. They can tip their hand to cabaret, to pure dance, and across ambient chill. That gives the listener a nice Read More
Hi, Welcome to this weeks NEVER HEARD THAT. I think we all appreciate that being taught, coached or mentored from an early age gives us a great chance to become very, very good at our craft. With associated hard work and persistence, we can become professional – a lucky few Read More
Hi, Welcome to this weeks NEVER HEARD THAT. I think it is pretty hard to resist a good groove. It is the sort of music which gets into your head and gives you that nice euphoric feeling. It can even make the non-dancers dance. I think that describes me a Read More
Hi, Welcome to this weeks NEVER HEARD THAT. I first saw Australian band DECKCHAIRS OVERBOARD on a TV show when I was very young. For me, they stood out from the other acts that were on the program and I really liked their particular take on the pop song. Over Read More
Hi, Welcome to this weeks NEVER HEARD THAT. I am not ashamed to say that I miss the browse – that opportunity to immerse yourself in a physical store, with no regard for time, looking through music, video or books, or even all three at once! Its not quite the Read More
Hi, Welcome to this weeks NEVER HEARD THAT. I wasn’t aware of UK duo AUTECHRE until I saw that they had done a remix for one of my favourite artists. Liking the sound that they had produced, I knew that I needed to keep an eye out for them. For Read More
Hi, Welcome to this weeks NEVER HEARD THAT. It must be an incredible feeling when your debut album tops the charts all around the world. You can imagine that it would have to be both a very happy and very surreal sensation. In fact, it is hard to think of Read More
Hi, Welcome to this weeks NEVER HEARD THAT. When French duo AIR released their debut album Moon Safari in 1998, it is as though the world was waiting for their particular take on ambient electronica. The album and the three singles lifted from it were all massively successful and a Read More
Hi, Welcome to this weeks NEVER HEARD THAT. When I first heard UK band SHELLEYAN ORPHAN and their 1989 single Shatter, I was thoroughly impressed. They struck me as a highly musical band that was augmented by complex and emotive vocal melodies. In a way, they seemed to me to Read More