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Every Record Tells A Story. A blog about music. Operating fearlessly in the Blogs-With-Stupid-Jokes-About-Heavy-Rock-And-Indie-Bands-niche.
I write about music, and I have written for Classic Rock magazine and Record Collector
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• The Brits 2018: Stormzy’s Boots, Dua Lipa’s Swimming Cozzie and Liam Gallagher’s Coat

  By Every Record Tells A Story on February 21, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  It’s genuinely a highlight of the musical year, if only for the thrill of the unexpected, but if we learn nothing else at The Brits each time, it’s just how difficult being a TV presenter is. At least, the three… Read More ›

• Book What The Cat Dragged In: A New Look At Glam Metal

  By Every Record Tells A Story on February 17, 2018 • ( 12 )

  

  Glam metal.  Perhaps one of the most thoroughly ignored genres of music of the last forty years. The trouble is, when your music is a silo of strange, make-up-infested faux-cowboys with ludicrous hair, flaming codpieces and guitars featuring primary colours… Read More ›

• Jen Cloher: An Album Of The Year…

  By Every Record Tells A Story on February 14, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  Album of the year lists are both a blessing and curse. As a way to demonstrate your discerning taste there are few better ways to impress your friends.  On the other hand, there are fewer more effective ways for your… Read More ›

• Can Dream Wife Hit The Top 40 UK Album Charts?

  By Every Record Tells A Story on February 2, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  There are many plagues of the modern world. Internet passwords. Staying over at a friend’s house and waking up first. The shrinking of the Toblerone bar. But most of all, Dry January. If ever there was a miserable, overly-long, grim,… Read More ›

• Can You Really Improve Your Hotel’s TripAdvisor Rating By Having The Libertines Run It?

  By Every Record Tells A Story on January 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The first big name casualty of the Music Industry’s collapse in revenues has been revealed.  Instead of retiring into a life of tripping over supermodels on Caribbean beaches, The Libertines are having to make ends meet by moving into the… Read More ›

• Belle & Sebastian And The Horror Of Spotify Playlists. 

  By Every Record Tells A Story on January 29, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  In a world where people consume music through pre-determined streaming service playlists with grim titles such as “Cinematic Chillout”, “Music for Concentration” and “Songs for Sleeping”, how does a band that is already nine albums into a career spanning over… Read More ›

• Sweet Billy Pilgrim Launch Stunning New Album At St Pancras Old Church

  By Every Record Tells A Story on January 20, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  As the dystopian nightmare of 2017 fades, to be replaced with fresh, new dystopian horrors with a shiny “Made In 2018” badge on them, we find ourselves looking for a fresh start.  And what better way to find a fresh… Read More ›

• A New Year, A New Band: Shame

  By Every Record Tells A Story on January 12, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  2018.  A new year, a fresh start. A chance to shed the winter coat that you unwittingly piled on when you bought, and then consumed, those second and third tubs of Heroes and Quality Street over the festive season.  It’s… Read More ›

• Every Record Tells A Story’s Albums Of 2017

  By Every Record Tells A Story on December 14, 2017 • ( 20 )

  

  Being barged out of the way by stressed shoppers. Not being able to find the thing your kids put on the top of their list. Bringing a dead tree into your house and covering it with shiny balls. Spending slightly… Read More ›

• Fleet Foxes Swap Columbia University for Brixton Academy

  By Every Record Tells A Story on November 28, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  Seattle. Early 2000’s. Robin Pecknold meets Skyler Skjelset at school and they bond over a love of Mike Wilson, Bob Dylan and Neil Young. They form a band, and give it a quirky name that people will remember and could… Read More ›

• Queens of the Stone Age – Live In London

  By Every Record Tells A Story on November 22, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  Josh Homme has come a long way since his formative teenage years when his band, Sons of Kyuss, filled the hot, star-filled Palm Desert sky with cacophonous noise, bonfire smoke and teenage attitude, playing gear powered by generators to a… Read More ›

• Why Independent Record Shops Shouldn’t Fear Sainsbury’s Compilation Albums (Too Much)

  By Every Record Tells A Story on November 10, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  You can see why the start up of it’s own record label by supermarket chain Sainsbury’s would provoke within independent record shops the sort of confusion and suspicion you might otherwise only witness when a particularly trendy flock of sheep… Read More ›

• Help Celebrate “One Of The Country’s Great Record Shops’” 40th Birthday

  By Every Record Tells A Story on October 26, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  On the 28 October 1977 a thirty-seven year old Peter Driscoll opened a new record shop at 55 Elm Road in Leigh on Sea. It was the year of Punk and The Sex Pistols, so naturally the UK’s charts reflected… Read More ›

• How The Story of The White Stripes Was Foretold: By Journey

  By Every Record Tells A Story on October 19, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  In which we discover how The White Stripes’ story was foretold by Journey’s Classic AOR hit “Don’t Stop Believin’”

• Beck Pays Tribute To Tom Petty With Cover of American Girl: Live at The Electric Ballroom

  By Every Record Tells A Story on October 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  A new album by Beck is something to be celebrated, and the man himself has been in London all week to promote the new LP “Colors”, an upbeat, shiny, modern pop record, a million miles removed from its predecessor, the… Read More ›