Latest articles by Tom Poak
60 years ago, Bob Dylan recorded The Times They Are A-Changin’. In 2015, he explained how you could write songs like that too…
How Bob Dylan set out to make new sounds out of old sounds and new words out of old words – and pointed the way to the future along the way
"How do you tune a B string? You can't." What Blur’s Graham Coxon learned – and didn't learn – from folk legend Bert Jansch
The Blur guitarist and solo artist on the pressures of playing – and even tuning-up – in front of your heroes
“You look like sh*t, your voice has gone, the hotel has lost your laundry”: Nick Cave's description of touring will put you off the idea for life
“Touring is actually hard to do,” says Nick Cave. “It's not working down the coal mines, of course, but it has its own struggles.”
