Behind The Counter is a 12-part video series that tells the stories from the wonderful world of independent record shops.

With its confluence of culture and artistic disciplines, New York City in the mid-Seventies was the backdrop to the story of Horses, and its greatest contextual influence. Patti Smith left her working ...

“There was this whole glam thing going on so I just put myself in that head. Its not like I had to go very far to do it. I have about a thousand selves running around. Its easy.” – Lou Reed We all ...

This revelation was frustrated by the intractability of Joyce’s estate, which repeatedly refused Bush permission to use the words as her lyrics on ‘The Sensual World’. She was forced to rebuild from ...

Life in Queensbridge, NY, was always going to be the beating heart of Illmatic. Although still in his late teens, Nas had already experienced more than his fair share of traumatic, life-changing ...

The recording studio and the importance of it has changed dramatically over the years, in this piece we look at how the rise of the studio affected musicians such as Brian Eno. Technology has always ...

Love “Forever Changes” is one of the seminal sixties albums and one of the top psychedelic albums of all times according to serious music fans and critics. The band may not be familiar to many people ...

Radiohead’s second album The Bends was released on the 13th March, 1995 and exactly 30 years later to the day producer John Leckie joined Classic Album Sundays founder, radio host and DJ Colleen ...

Level 42 founding members Mike Lindup and Phil Gould take a look back to their worldwide breakthrough LP, 1985’s World Machine. This is the album in which Level 42 transitioned from a straight up jazz ...

After seeing the Sex Pistols perform at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester in 1976 and inspired by their DIY ethos and lack of great musical ability, several attendees ran out to form their own ...

Thurston Moore provides an insight into his musical mind with Ten Excellent LPs.

It’s a safe bet to assume you haven’t heard many albums that weave robots, kung-fu and a young Japanese woman into their central theme. To be frank, it’s a concept that just shouldn’t work. But in the ...