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...