Pop Crunch — Kinks or fetishes are essentially things that induce sexual arousal but aren’t considered to be “mainstream”. Pretty much everything and anything can inspire a kink for example there’s a whole sexual sub-culture into My Little Pony, that’s... more info

NME — Artist address rumours of The Kinks reforming more info

Guardian Music — My friend John Hardie, who has died of cancer aged 67, was an artist, drummer and satirist who used his warmth, wit and rebellious spirit to challenge convention.He joined his first band as a drummer aged 15 and was later a member of the Barnsley-bas... more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — Original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley recently released the music video for his cover of the FREE song "Fire And Water", featuring his former bandmate and KISS's co-founding frontman Paul Stanley. On the set of the "Fire And Water" video shoot, Ace a... more info

Rolling Stone — The Kinks sandwiched a swinging guitar-driven and harmonica-tinged blues number, "Long Tall Shorty" – perhaps showing the spiritual roots of hard-rocking originals like "You Really Got Me" – in the middle of the first side of their 1964... more info

Popdose — Once upon a band called The Fall, Martin Bramah was the original guitarist in this most important and seminal Manchester group.  But the overwhelming directing fist of Mark E. Smith dictated otherwise and Bramah left along with original keyboard pla... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Manchester's Proto Idiot make sneering, shambolic, distinctly Brit-variety garage rock that's like a sonic two-finger-salute in everyone's direction. (Think early Who and Kinks filtered through Television Personalities and The Fall... ... more info

NME — Pair will discuss the history of The Kinks at Hornsey Town Hall more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — Original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley has just released the music video for his cover of the FREE song "Fire And Water", featuring his former bandmate and KISS's co-founding frontman Paul Stanley. Check it out below. The "Fire And Water" video holds i... more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — Original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley's solo covers set, "Origins Vol. 1", debuted at No. 23 on The Billboard 200, having shifted 16,109 equivalent album units in the week ending April 21. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the w... more info