Playlist: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
With John Cale announcing that Liverpool will be his only European show to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Velvet Underground & Nico album, Joseph Viney reflects on its impact. How come one...
Playlist: Summer Sounds Of Green Man Festival
Belle & Sebastian, Grandaddy, Battles, Lush, Laura Marling, Wild Beasts… Green Man have released a perky playlist to get you in the mood for the sunny — and hopefully scorching hot — Welsh mountains…...
Playlist: Utopia Deferred
Utopia or dystopia? Paradise or hell? To mark Corke Gallery’s new Utopia Deferred painting exhibition, harbinger of doom C. James Fagan creates a mixtape for a new type of world… Painters Paul Collinson, Mandy Payne and Conor...
Playlist: Dig it! Jon Daniel’s Afro Supa Hero Soundtrack
Who wants to get funked up? To celebrate his Afro Supa Hero exhibition, currently on display at the International Slavery Museum, we asked designer Jon Daniel to make us the perfect soundtrack… In a recent TDN interview,...
Playlist: “Lift up your skirt and fly!” — Shakespeare400
This month marks the 400th year since William Shakespeare shuffled off this mortal coil. Vanessa Wheeler remembers the great man in the most rock ‘n’ roll way possible… Over the next few days,...
Playlist: Best Winter Gigs In The North West
The Christmas decorations have been taken down, the festivity is over, and the world looks cold and gloomy again. Is there any better way to escape the January drizzle than being in a...
Playlist: Right Here, Right Now
Greg Thorpe creates the perfect playlist for The Lowry’s current exhibition of digital contemporary art; sit back, plug in, and consider how the world around us is changing via Kate Bush, Caribou and...
Playlist: Liverpool Music Week (LMW)
As Texan Josh T. Pearson takes to the the stage tonight, Jack Roe makes a mixtape of all his favourite artists flocking to Liverpool for a city wide, week-long party… With a music scene...
Playlist: Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia
With space-rock legends Spiritualized heading up this year’s festival, Joseph Viney looks into the other highlights alt-music fans can expect from ’the great psychedelic capital of Europe’… Yes indeed it’s that time of year again. No,...