One Track Minded

In 1998, Swedish hardcore punks Refused released their third album The Shape of Punk to Come. The album was a bold departure from their 1994 debut This Might Just Be... The Truth, and it’s 1996 follow-up, Songs to Fan the Flames of…

Fifty-years ago this November, Lou Reed released his second solo album, and created his most successful and influential work. Transformer, produced by Reed fans David Bowie and Bowie's collaborator, guitarist Mick Ronson, was viewed then…

This year sees a lot of anniversaries - forty years since Joy Division’s masterpiece, Unknown Pleasures, thirty years since The Stone Roses first record. It also marks four decades since a new sub-genre of music interrupted the airwaves.…

Dublin band MUNKY recently released a song titled 'One in Five'. All proceeds of the track are being donated to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, including 1\5th of their EP proceeds. The song itself was written in response to sexual assault,…

Morrissey is a divisive figure but, love him or loathe him, there’s no denying the creative blast of work he and Johnny Marr were responsible for with The Smiths. The importance of the group's workhorse effort can be outlined simply.…

“It was either going to be massive or it was going to be nothing” - Roger Taylor, Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody', one of the most celebrated songs in the history of music, is utterly unique. With the recent biopic bagging 4 awards at the…

There's a strong post-punk re-emergence happening all across the UK and Ireland. Bands like The Murder Capital and Fontaines DC are spearheading the latter - while Bristol-based IDLES lead the way. Post-punk was born from pure punk, but…

"You gave away the things you loved, and of them was me.." Listening to Carly Simon's colossal 1972 hit, ‘You’re So Vain’, you realise very quickly that whoever wounded this woman will be reminded for eternity. Every time they hear it…

Welcome to One Track Minded, where we pick a select cut from a chosen act and delve beneath the surface. This time out, Justin McDaid delves deep on a blues and soul classic… “I would rather go blind, boy/ Than to see you walk…

“I dread to think what the future will bring” Top Of The Pops, August 1979: Coventry ska band The Specials have caused a minor stir in the charts with their first single, ‘Gangsters’, released on their own 2 Tone label and kicking off what…