Anthony Strutt - Profiles


Youth

Youth - Sketch, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll

Anthony Strutt is impressed by a new DVD documentary about Killing Joke bassist and Paul McCartney and Pink Floyd producer Youth


Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen - 1934-2016

Anthony Strutt bids farewell to one of his all-time heroes Leonard Cohen who died in November


Tim Burgess

Tim Burgess - Profile

Anthony Strutt examines Tim Burgess from the Charlatans' new book, 'Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco', in which he goes record shopping and invites us along to track down famous friends' suggestions.


Folk Devils

Folk Devils - Profile

Anthony Strutt introduces us to his early heroes The Folk Devils, a seminal 1980s post-punk act whose only album, 'Goodnight Irony', has been recently re-released alongside some session tracks on a collection called 'Beautiful Monster'.


David Bowie

David Bowie - Blackstar

Anthony Strutt evaluates and reflects upon 'Blackstar', David Bowie's final album


Johnny Marr

Johnny Marr - Profile

Anthony Strutt pays personal tribute to Johnny Marr, who has just released ‘Adrenalin Baby’, a new live album


Robert Throb Young (Primal Scream)

Robert Throb Young (Primal Scream) - 1965-2014

Anthony Strutt pays tribute to the former Primal Scream guitarist Robert 'Throb' Young, who died at the age of 49 on the 9th September


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Book

Anthony Strutt is unimpressed by record label and club night Sonic Cathedral's first book 'Memoirs of a Shoegazing Gentleman', which collates together a series of articles published in the early 1990s in a spoof column in the 'NME'


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - C86 Box Set

Anthony Strutt reflects on the history and legacy of the 'NME' influential 'C86' cassette, which has just been re-released in a three CD box set


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Film

Anthony Strutt finds Jacques Demy's 1964 French musical 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg', which has just been released on DVD in a fiftieth anniversary edition, to be one of the classics of 1960's cinema


Lou Reed



Anthony Strutt pays personal tribute to the late Lou Reed


Alan McGee

Alan McGee - Interview

Former Creation Records boss Alan McGee talks to Anthony Strutt about his new record company 359 Music, and why he has decided to start another label


Doors

Doors - 1939-2013

Anthony Strutt reflects upon the career of Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who died in May from cancer


Todd Rundgren

Todd Rundgren - Todd Rundgren

Anthony Strutt two recently released live CDs/DVDs from a 2010 tour of his classic 'Todd' and 'Healing' albums


Jesus And Mary Chain

Jesus And Mary Chain - Jesus and Mary Chain Part 3

In the second third of his occasional series, about the Jesus and Mary Chain, who have recently had all their albums reissued, Anthony Strutt examines their fourth album, 'Honey's Dead'


Doors

Doors - The Doors FAQ: All That's Left To Know  about the Kings of Acid Rock

Anthony Strutt finds Rich Weidman's new book on the Doors to be impressively up-to-date and one of the best books on the subject yet


Jesus And Mary Chain

Jesus And Mary Chain - Jesus and Mary Chain Part 2

In the second part of his series, and wth all of their studio albums having been recently reissued in double CD editions, Anthony Strutt reflects upon the Jesus and Mary Chain's 1989 third album, 'Automatic'


Jesus And Mary Chain

Jesus And Mary Chain - Jesus and Mary Chain Part 1

With all six of their studio albums having been recently reissued, Anthony Strutt in a new series looks back on the career of Scottish alternative group the Jesus and Mary Chain and begins by looking at their first two albums, 'Psychocandy' and 'Darklands'


REM

REM - Live from Austin, Texas

Anthony Strutt examines R.E.M's new seventeen song DVD, which comes from American TV show, 'Austin City Limits', and was filmed at the time of their 2008 album 'Accelerate'


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Lizard in a Woman's Skin

Anthony Strutt examines 1971 Italian horror film, 'Lizard in a Woman's Skin', which has just been restored on DVD, and features a psychedelic soundtrack from Ennio Morricone