It starts with a birthstone...

  Karl Witney gets off the Megabus from Leeds to The Steel City and wanders off in search of the sound of Sheffield. Inevitably he ponders T...

  A 1989 album on 4AD from Kitchens of Distinction a London threepiece that Melody Maker championed fror a while. Love is Hell is a fragil...

       A lovely film about a painful subject. A sountrack that dreams from people who know how to dream ,

 

  Not for the first, and I imagine not for the last on here, I'm grateful for Darren Jones, my first mate on here, for coming up with a ...

  '                                       She was the still point of the turning world. ' Is there anything better than Kirsten Duns...

  Wipers third; 'everything feels concise, carved conciously into a kind of febrile venomous punk: no excess, no flab.' A terrific,...

  Born in Virginia, raised in Alabama, and a voice to match, Shelby Lynne has a voice thick with lived experience. A fine Country Soul Pop r...

  On to Leeds. A book that accumulates resonance with every chapter. Here we get a discussion of Consumer Fetsihism and an exploratuin of th...

  Always a great listen. I have a vinyl copy bit my record player is out of action so I was obliged to resort to the Internet and headphones...

  Gothenberg Indie sextet Agent Bla (Aget Blue), are an immediate sensitive, lush proposition that paint their pictures using the broadest b...

  To Newcastle. A fascinating, ever changing city. Still. The place where I live..Karl Whitney focuses his attention on Nik Cohn, originally...

  Johnny's daughter greets the early Eighties. What you think of this probably depends what you think of Country & Western crossing ...

  The thought of listening to late period Iggy Pop albums with songs called things such as 'Nazi Girlfriend' was more than I could f...

  Almost a comic Spinal Tap version of  a 'Beat Group Combo' at this stage. They're not the Kinks we know and love just yet un...

  Bad Bad Hats. Bad, bad name. Good, good band. Solid eponymous album. A duo essentially out of Miinneapolis, Minnesota.  I confess I thoygh...

 

  A trip to Beatles leads almost inevitable to a pigrimage around the streets and landmarks of Lennon and mcCartney's contrasting vision...

  The Replacements, regardless of how much you love them were always slightly variable in turns of their output. For many this is their go t...

  Listening through to the Blue Album was not a chore this morning. I still go through intermittent Beatles phases where I make my way thro...

  I'm losing my edge. I missed one.  Folk stalwart Sam Lee's Bernard Butler produced fourth album songdreamer  which featured as Moj...

  Nice to have Gideon guesting for Cerys again on Sunday mornings.

  I don't know this record. Or didn't until this morning. I listened to it in preference to Match of the Day . Westerberg is a songw...

 A journey on the part of the author. The kind of book I like. He takes us to the great Post Industrial cities of Britain using the music ea...

  I try not to get too engaged with the order of these lists. I'm getting older and am trying to adjust to the fact that these things ar...

    The highest ranking Sun Ra record on here. It's Sun Ra. From 1978. It's an hour and a half long. I decided to listen to the whol...

  A much hyped Leeds band that have risen quickly through the ranks and are playing the sizeable Boiler Shop venue, close to me soon in supp...

  The book tails off. I lost interest. The srory of Sly & The Family is 1965 to 1975 essentially. The rest is not essential. Worth a rea...

  Madness were a Singles Band. No shame in that. It was an incredibly competitive era and they parked themselves in the Top Ten for four yea...

  This felt like a significant Hip Hip release at the time. I wonder whether it remains so, more than 25 years after its release. Mos Def wa...

  For me Foo Fighters are really all about the fabulous eponymous first album. The one where Dave Grohl channelled his enormous and overpowe...

  Once again a Sporify bio that can't be bear in telling you where a fabulous band and wonderful record are coming from. ' Drawing ...

  Glen Donaldson, the bearded, wooly hatted middle aged man behing the The Reds Pinks & Purples wheel  is developing some brand. A memor...

  The end of this short run.With one of those Modern Soul records that don't do much for me personally. Soaring vocals, pounding drums. ...

  A powerhouse band. A body of work that could be described as a blast. Hart and Mould. And Norton. The finest moustache in counter culture ...

  A revelation. There have rarely been anything quite like the 3 first Beta Band EPs. They feed on the inpiration of early Beck more than an...

More from Unknown Mortal Orchestra. This comes from the latest album V. Captain James Cook is a divisive figure. He explored and charted tho...

  Kiwi Ruban Nielsin and a project I'm not familiar with. This goes back to 2013.It's freaky stuff. This makes a genuine and refresh...

                                                                                                     'A shady lane. Everybody wants one....

  Marta Del Grandi will play in in Newcastle in a couple of weeks. I suspect I'll need to be there.

  About grief and loss. Not a million miles from XX. Support from Jessie Ware and Anna Calvi. A little insipid and slinky dancefloor for my ...

                                                           'Every day I wake up and it's Sunday...' An album that meant a lot to...

  The Prisoners were a Cult taste throughout the Eighties. In their dream still in 1964. That Manfred Man/ Georgie Fame organ sound. Monochr...

  I didn't go into my Listening  journey with  Primus' Sailing The Seas of Cheese with an entirely open and happy mindset. I saw Za...

  Toronto's Wine Lips strike me as an uncomplicated bunch.You know pretty much all you need to know from thirty seconds of their latest ...

 

My first listen to the latest Vampire Weekend album  Only God Was Above Us , on the Friday it came out was underwhelming to say the least. I...

Still Corners are an ethereal Folk couple that sertve up reminders of the late Sixties and early Seventies European movie house experience. ...

 Hey. Another band from Melbourne. Just what the world needs. This lot are somewhat MOR and easy going but typically offbeat and quirky outf...

  The Flaming Lips pulled themselves together in 1999 and sqieezed out a visionary Psychedelic masterpiece that is not articularly my cup of...