Jude Rogers

“It’s Entertainment, You Know?” Trevor Horn’s Favourite Albums

Producer and innovator Trevor Horn guides Jude Rogers through 13 favourite albums, telling tales of how Kraftwerk led him to breaking the Official Secrets Act and tripping to Yes

Full House: Richard Thompson’s Favourite Albums

As Fairport Convention alumnus and folk rock hero Richard Thompson tours his new album he speaks to Jude Rogers about 13 favourite records, from The Watersons to Squeeze, Moby Grape, Offa Rex, Marissa Nadler and Crowded House

For Everyone That Follows: The Ballad of Shirley Collins Reviewed

Jude Rogers looks at a recently released documentary on the legendary folk singer and archivist Shirley Collins

Songs Are Powerful Things: Marry Waterson’s Baker’s Dozen

Marry Waterson might have been born into a folk dynasty but that didn't stop her becoming a biker. With a new LP out and her mother and uncle's Bright Phoebus LP recently reissued, she guides Jude Rogers through 13 favourite LPs from The Beatles to The Band and Billie Holiday

Forever Watching Love Grow: New Order Live At MIF

New Order play a euphoric home-ground gig at Manchester International Festival. Jude Rogers feels the love, and considers the band's legacy as an integral part of modern Manchester history

Soul Soothers: Suzanne Ciani’s Favourite LPs

Ahead of her appearance at the environmentally sustainable electronic music festival Terraforma, Suzanne Ciani talks Jude Rogers through her favourite 13 albums, from Roxy Music to Pavarotti via Terry Riley and Eva Cassidy, Carole King and Penderecki

Bowie, Prince, Cohen & The Quiet Power Of Public Grief, By Jude Rogers

Reflecting on a year that has seen so many musical heroes taken from us, Jude Rogers explores how a shared sense of sorrow is far from indulgent, but might help us all through these strange and difficult times

This Happened: Sylvia Patterson And Miranda Sawyer In Conversation

Jude Rogers took a long brunch (if we're going to be specific) with two of this country's best music writers, Sylvia Patterson and Miranda Sawyer, recently. Samantha Hayley was on hand to take photographs

Don’t You Be Afraid To Lie By Me: The Strange World Of… Bert Jansch

Folk at its rawest is often bloody, uncompromising stuff, and Bert Jansch was one of its magical practitioners. Add fiery guitar-playing, a voice hewn from Edinburgh stone, original songs full of lyrics fabout the darkest sides of life, and you get one of music's most fascinating characters, argues Jude Rogers

Adele

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Who On Earth Are Blur? An Interview By Jude Rogers

Will the real Blur please step forward, asks Jude Rogers after speaking to them (individually) recently. Portrait by Linda Brownlea

The Apolitical Party: Noel Gallagher Interviewed

The always quotable High Flying Birds frontman on politics in music, Sleaford Mods and getting pissed with Morrissey. Interview by Jude Rogers

Leytonstone To The Bone: Damon Albarn Interviewed

Jude Rogers takes Damon Albarn on a trip from the East London of his childhood to the West London of 2014. All photographs courtesy Linda Brownlee

Wreath Lectures 2013: Celebrating A Great Year For Men In Music!

It's been a great year for men in music. Jude Rogers looks at the runners and riders in one of 2013's biggest races...

“I’m Not Ready To Hang Up My Pop Hat” – Kim Wilde Interviewed

Jude Rogers spends the afternoon with a Metallica, James Blake and Christmas song loving Kim Wilde

Smoke Signals: Jude Rogers On The State Of Independent Publishing

As Quietus writer Jude Rogers prepares to publish an anthology of London writing, she looks at the changing issues facing independent publishers since she founded Smoke magazine a decade ago

Pet Shop Boys

Electric

Enjoy The Silence: Michael Rother On The Joy Of Quiet

Ahead of his set of Neu! material at Focus Wales this weekend, Michael Rother talks to Jude Rogers about avoiding sensory overload, the meditative qualities of watching snooker and why total silence would be torture

Radio-Activity V: In Praise Of Mary Anne Hobbs

Jude Rogers tunes in to the new weekend breakfast show from Mary Anne Hobbs, and finds a wonderful antidote to the blokey shouting of weekday mornings

Radio-Activity IV: Mary Beard & A Scandal On The Airwaves

After the appalling treatment meted out to Mary Beard after she appeared on Question Time, Jude Rogers looks at the presence of women on the radio... and finds that the BBC is lacking in comparison to its commercial rivals

Radio-Activity III: Scott Walker’s Birthday On The Wireless

This week, Jude Rogers looks at some great shows around Scott Walker's birthday celebrations, and asks for your tips from the airwaves

Radio-Activity II: Today, Bowie & Evan Davis’ Pierced Nipples

In the second of her Radio-Activity radio review columns, Jude Rogers asks why the otherwise excellent Today programme can't get music right, and praises programmes on The Zombies, bogs and Delia Derbyshire.

Radio-Activity I: Picks From The Airwaves, By Jude Rogers

It's the first instalment of Radio-Activity, a new column by Jude Rogers looking at the best listening on the radio

Spooked! Jude Rogers On BBC Ghost Stories For Christmas

Jude Rogers peers out from under her blanket to pen some words on the BBC's spine-chilling horror dramas, recently reissued in a BFI DVD box set

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The Abbey Road Sessions

A Sorry State: Pop Marketing & Rihanna’s Unapologetic

Provocation for Profit? Assault as a Marketing Accessory? Why the Rihanna PR Machine show sad signs of our times

London Film Festival: The Road: A Story Of Life And Death

Jude Rogers watches Marc Issacs' doc about immigrants settled along the A5, screening in the Journey strand of the 56th London Film Festival

“I Want Lou Reed To Kick Me Down The Stairs” – Lawrence Interviewed

Indie-pop outsider extraordinaire Lawrence – the Felt/Denim/Go-Kart-Mozart frontman who turned 51 last month – talks to Jude Rogers about sounding like Nicki Minaj and his ex-girlfriend from Saint Etienne...

Mira Calix Interviewed: Stones Are Where The Heart Is

Jude Rogers speaks to Mira Calix about her rockin' new sound piece, Nothing Is Set In Stone, prejudices facing sound artists and that hoary old label, "women in electronic music"

Why You Must Watch The New Luke Haines Film, By Jude Rogers

Jude Rogers gives us several pertinent reasons why you should watch Art Will Save The World, a documentary about Luke Haines

The Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Orbital Interviewed

Jude Rogers talks to the brothers Hartnoll about about new album Wonky and how to provoke an emotional response in the listener

Staples’ Diet: Tindersticks Interviewed

As Tindersticks release their brilliant new album The Something Rain, Jude Rogers talks to Stuart Staples and David Boulter about their present and reflect on the past