Sweeping The Nation — The round-up of the decade about to close reaches that most dread of years, 2016. You know, when Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Leonard Cohen, George Martin etc all died we were told by some in the press that as our heroes aged this would be happenin... more info

Sweeping The Nation — "That rock'n'roll, eh?" Our documentation of how we see the years of this decade in retrospect continues into 2014, the year Alex Turner made a stand for... something at the Brits. We were somehow unsurprised to find Radio X were still callin... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Onwards with our overview of the decade just passing, and today we alight on the year we were confidently repeatedly told that Jessie J was inevitably going to be an enormous international star. She did have a Billboard top ten album in 2014, but whe... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Looks like we made it to the end. We close with ten years ago, another of those years right at the end of this survey in which it's driven more by what STN was writing about at the time then what else was happening as the alternative rapidly segr... more info

Sweeping The Nation — It's only been a week and again EVERYONE has decided to release new material for us to pick carefully through and highlight the peaks rather than foothills of. May as well start with Arcade Fire, whose Everything Now - title track of album out Ju... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Yr Poetry - These Are Not The Days Of Our LivesFor the course of 2017 sometime side project Yr Poetry is what Alexei and Junior of Johnny Foreigner are concentrating on. One Night Alive, is the first of three EPs promised this year, pay what you want... more info

Sweeping The Nation — For latecomers, this is the eleventh in our sequence of forty tracks to represent (as through our eyes at least) each of the pop years 1970 to 2009. So far we've covered 1972, 1976, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2002 and 2005. And now... 2... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — It's a frantic pop song that has a ton of stuff going on: yelpy male/female dual-vocals, mathy rhythms, tons of dynamic shifts, and more. Now it has an animated video. Continue reading… more info

DrownedInSound — I have fallen head over heels for JFo's entire ouvre more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher UK indie rockers Johnny Foreigner put out You Can Do Better, their followup to 2011's Johnny Foreigner vs Everything, in the UK earlier this year and they've since announced that they've signed to Lame-O Records (The Weaks,... more info