As we turn the calendar to February, and with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, it often feels natural to reach for records that feel a bit more ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Equal parts music-hall scamp, art school troubadour, estuary poet and new-wave figurehead, Ian ...

In life, there are certain things you take for granted: British summers are wet, Arthur Brown really does live in a crazy world and Ian Dury’s Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll was a huge hit single in 1977.

Baxter Dury (son of British icon Ian Dury) just released his eight solo album, Allbarone, which he made with producer Paul Epworth (Adele, Bloc Party). Together they take Baxter’s signature style — ...

Ian Dury & the Blockheads The Stiff Recordings 1977-1980 (Demon) Elsewhere in this month’s theartsdesk on Vinyl I have a pop, as I often do, at the way falsetto voice-breaking has become the default ...