The tale of the unreleased album from Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong as seen in the pages of the NME... If you read the NME cover-to-cover every week in the mid-to-late-noughties, you’d be familiar with the music now known - uncharitably - as 'landfill indie'. Some take offence to this term - whether it be the bands themselves (understandably), or the fans who grew up with these tunes as their soundtrack. It’s somewhat of an unfair categorisation, as the timeframe includes s

Or ‘How Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys botched their 90s revival’... The Beach Boys’ career is littered with unreleased and unfinished albums, as is many of the individual members’ solo careers. A few of these albums have taken on legendary status, no more so than 1967’s Smile , which still receives rabid attention and discussion despite it being ‘finished’ in 2004 by Brian Wilson, and given an official reconstruction from the original Beach Boys recordings in 2011. Other un

The story of the short-lived Prince Paul imprint from 1991... Prince Paul, the Stetsasonic DJ and legendary producer with De La Soul, was...

A (very) brief history of SST: SST Records was founded by Black Flag leader Greg Ginn to put out their first 7” (Nervous Breakdown)...

Reflex Records was established by Hüsker Dü and friend/record store owner/sound engineer Terry Katzman as a ‘reflex’ against their 3 song...

View the top 40 here! We’re excited to announce that SECRET SAUCES has teamed up with the Official Charts and a coalition of various...

Every ranking, from worst to best! Starting a website to accompany the SECRET SAUCES fanzine, I thought about other music websites and...

A selection of picture tickets from 1987-2007. My dad kept most of his gig tickets, mostly existing loose in a drawer for 25 years or...

It’s probably the only library in the world with multiple TVs simultaneously showing music videos and boxing matches, while ‘This Is The...