SPIN: 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Steven Kilbey of The Church

SOURCE Name  Steven John Fucking Kilbey Best known for  Idiot savant (perhaps more of the former) behind Australian band The Church. A prolific renaissance bloke, knocking out records, paintings, poems, books, and now even comics. Still haven’t choreographed a ballet, but who knows? Current city  Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia 2034. Really want to be in  Bali. Sitting on a deck […]

SPIN: 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: James Atkin of EMF

SOURCE Name  James Atkin Best known for  Singer for the band EMF. Current city  Yorkshire Dales, U.K. Really want to be in  Back in the tour van visiting a new town or city every day. Excited about  The new EMF releases and heading back to the U.S. for Spring tours. My current music collection has a lot of  The wife jokes that I struggle to […]

FLOOD: The Church Return with New Single “Sacred Echoes (Part Two)”

SOURCE Words: Will Schube Photo: Adam Nicholas November 06, 2025 Australian dream-pop legends The Church are back with “Sacred Echoes (Part Two),” the band’s first new music since their 2024 LP, Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars. That project served as a companion piece to their first thematic full-length, The Hypnogogue, which was released a year prior. Got it? Good. It‘s […]

SPIN: Bauhaus Alum Daniel Ash’s New Project Is Modern Art

SOURCE Written by Liza Lentini | October 27, 2025 – 11:00 am Daniel Ash performs with Love and Rockets at The Fillmore Silver Spring on June 11, 2023, Silver Spring, Maryland. (Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images)   “‘Danny, we need a gimmick. Wear a gas mask.’” Daniel Ash is recalling his first paid gig as a young musician […]

FLOOD MAGAZINE: Ashes and Diamonds Are (Hopefully) Forever

SOURCE Words: A.D. Amorosi Photo: Regan Catam October 01, 2025 Driving through Los Angeles on a hot afternoon, Daniel Ash is contemplating the fates while facing the glare of the sun in his eyes. The guitarist and vocalist who co-founded Great Britain’s massively influential Bauhaus with childhood friends—then did likewise with most of those same pals for his equally […]

GOLDMINE MAGAZINE (cover): The Lingering Legacy of Dolores O’Riordan and The Cranberries

SOURCE The reissue of The Cranberries’ bestselling album, No Need to Argue, presented an opportunity to catch up with the group’s drummer, Fergal Lawler, and their producer, Stephen Street; both reflected on the band’s legacy and the tragic loss of lead vocalist Dolores O’Riordan, who died in 2018 at age 46. Shortly before O’Riordan’s death, Goldmine editor Patrick […]

PITCHFORK: Jonathan Richman “Only Frozen Sky Anyway” (7.8)

SOURCE By Stephen Thomas Erlewine Genre: Rock Label: Blue Arrow Reviewed: July 22, 2025 Jonathan Richman has spent the better part of his five-plus-decade career as a sunny, reassuring presence on the fringes of American rock, rhapsodizing about the mundane rhythms of everyday life. He never came close to the Billboard charts but his cult was big enough to […]