Jon Rogers - Profiles


Specials

Specials - Profile

Jon Rogers examines the short-lived but influential career of the Specials, whose two albums, 'The Specials' and 'More Specials', have just been re-released in remastered double CD editions


Siouxsie And The Banshees

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Jon Rogers examines the latter years of Siouxsie and the Banshees, who have just reissued their final four albums, 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Peek-A-Boo', 'Superstition' and 'The Rapture'


Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat, Part 3

In the final part of his three part series on the Velvet Underground's 1968 second LP 'White Light/White Heat', Jon Rogers examines critical perception of it since its release and its recent box set


Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat Part 2

In the second part of his three part series on the Velvet Underground's second LP 'White Light/White Heat', Jon Rogers continues to reflect upon its seminal impact


Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat Part 1

In the first part of a three part series Jon Rogers examines the recording and making of the Velvet Underground's 1967 second album, 'White Light/White Heat'


Bill Withers

Bill Withers - Bill Withers

Jon Rogers is impressed by 'The Complete Sussex and Columbia Album Masters', a new nine CD box set from soul giant Bill Withers


Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground Part 4

In the fourth part of his history on the Velvet Underground leading up to the release of their debut album 'The Velvet Underground and Nico', Jon Rogers describes a disastrous trip to California, which nevertheless allows the group to do some more recording and to finish off the classic album


Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground Part 5

Jon Rogers in the final part of his five part series on the Velvet Underground reflects upon critical reaction to their 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' album upon its release in 1967, and examines its new six CD box set


Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground Part 1

The Velvet Underground's classic 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' will be re-released in October in a five CD box set. In a multi-part series, Jon Rogers writes of the band's history up until its release. He begins by examining their first few months together


Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground Part 2

In the second part of his history on the Velvet Underground leading up to the release of their debut album 'The Velvet Underground and Nico', Jon Rogers writes of their first meeting with Andy Warhol and of them being introduced to Nico


Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground Part 3

With Nico having become a reluctant member of the band, Jon Rogers in the third part of his series on the Velvet Underground reflects on their Exploding Plastic Inevitable residency in New York, and recording continuing on their influential debut album, 'The Velvet Underground and Nico'


Nico

Nico - Nico

Jon Rogers examines the remarkable history behind Nico's 1974 fourth album album 'The End', which about to be re-released was recorded in tribute to her late lover the Doors' Jim Morrison and also was inspired in part by the notorious German terrorist group, the Baader-Meinhof gang


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - No Wave Part 3

In the third part of his four part series, on New York's late 1970's confrontational No Wave movement, Jon Rogers reflects upon Brian Eno's album 'No New York', which featured four of its acts Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Chance and the Contortions, Mars and DNA.


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - No Wave Part 4

Jon Rogers in the fourth and final part of his No Wave series examines Glenn Branca's band DNA and the long-term impact of the short-lived, but influential movement


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - No Wave Part 1

In the first part of a four part series, on New York's late 1970's confrontational No Wave movement, Jon Rogers examines the impact of two of its most principle bands, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and DNA


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - No Wave Part 2

In the second part of his four part No Wave series, Jon Rogers reflects upon the influence of the saxophone-playing James Chance and his band the Contortions


Motorhead

Motorhead - Lemmy

Despite taking two years to make, Jon Rogers finds fly-on-the wall documentary 'Lemmy' to be lacking in insight and new information about the legendary Motorhead front man


Slits

Slits - 1962-2010

Jon Rogers reflects on the extraordinary life of Slits front woman Ari Up, who died at the age of 48 on the 20th October


Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt - Robert Wyatt

With 'His Greatest Misses' a new compilation of his work out, Jon Rogers reflects upon the idiosyncratic solo career of musicians' musician and former Soft Machine member, Robert Wyatt


Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra in the Fifties

Jon Rogers reflects upon the musical career and comeback of Frank Sinatra in the Fifties