Okay, so I’m totally outing myself as a nineties throwback here, with a penchant for American indie rock, but Pavement were one of those cool bands in the nineties that were kind of well known and yet weren’t. Beloved by fans and music journos for their low-fi, slacker kind of vibe, they never quite made it into fully-blown, mainstream status, and yet - bizarrely - a few months ago [in 2022] a remake of their song ‘Harness Your Hopes’ went viral on TikTok – and suddenly th

I’ve always been a big Beck fan, and not just because we share the same name (although that might have something to do with it – that’s one for the therapists, I guess). This week [October19 2022] marked the twentieth anniversary since his fabulous SEA CHANGE came out. Sea Change is a phenomenal album: rightly compared to Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks (which is also a corker). It was apparently written in the aftermath of his nine-year relationship with the designer Leig