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  Squeeze are masters at this. They chronicle London and what it feels like to live there better than any band I can think of except pe...

  So this is a music blog. But hey, James Garner has died. And this is a great tune.

  Paul Cook's birthday. I've shaken this man's hand.    

  'Alabama's got me so upset. Tennessee makes me lose my rest. And everybody knows about, Mississippi goddam.'

  Booker T is in town today, at the Newcastle Sage Americana Festival. Sadly not with all the original MGs. One of the truly great band...

  This series takes me to all kinds of wonderful things. Like this,   'I have come to lie with you I have come to die with you ...

  Yet another wonderful sounding new Australian band. This time from Sydney.

  Haven't been to this spurious series for a while. I put this on my headphones on Friday morning and it took me to a place. I post...

Henry Rollins always writes and speaks very eloquently. Here he is on The Ramones. Henry Rollins: The Ramones Rescued Rock and Roll     ...

  Springsteen and the E Street Band rehearse for 19 hours at the Record Plant in New York City the day before the Born to Run Tour kick...

  There are plenty of songs about Bob Dylan. Quite rightly. Here's one of the more unusual ones.    

  Two for the price of one. Sometimes you get to the end of weeks you think will never end. Given that we spend so much of our lives at...

  Bobby Fuller died this day in 1966. One of the great unexplained deaths of Rock and Roll. Rumoured to be a Mafia killing. Surely not ...

So here we go. Next hundred done and onto the next. 101. The Charlatans  102. Magazine 103. Lush 104. The Stoney Poneys 105.The Al...

  My friend Rod helped me find my way to this one. Thank you Rod! Cracking bass line.

  Like a Version is a segment on an Australian radio show where bands and artists take a shot at cover versions of songs they love. Her...

  Seeing as it's a sad anniversary. The importance of music.        

  A momentous and really pretty sad day today. Two absolute giants died, eight years apart. He was 40. She was 43.  

  Every now and then you hear something you haven't heard before that stops you in the tracks. I heard this and The Loved Ones yest...

  She's off to New Zealand!

  Wow! Just wow! Truly one of the great garage singles and surely where The Triffids and Nick Cave came from. Just heard this following...

  Born this day.

It's there! It's there! It will get played again. My vinyl copy of the album this comes from, Saturation, is a beautiful shade ...

  This made my day when hearing it halfway through another commonplace nine to five behind a screen to slot alongside so many others. M...

  I feel that I should know Exile in Guyville . These intuitive, impulses generally end up in vinyl purchases.

  He should have been 62 today. Sadly, he was never going to make it so long.

  There are certain people you'll never forget hearing for the first time. For me I'd pick out Nick Drake, Gram Parsons, Big St...

  Little Johnny Jewel. He's so cool!

  The World Cup 2014 is over. I imagine the trophy is on its way back to Germany as we speak.I composed an odd chart where it goes back...

  Moe Tucker definitely needs a song named after her. Generally I have a rule of thumb that I won't post songs I don't like on ...

It's got a whole compilation of his on there but this is always the song of his for me. The record it comes from, his first solo a...

  Born this day 112 years ago.

  Josh Homme directed me this way. Thanks!

Germany. Best team. Right the way through! Ring out the old. Ring in the neu.  Goodnight! End of a series.

  From 1975. Not quite sure what's happening here but it's wonderful whatever it is!

  One of their best. Mod, clipped urgency and a beautiful horn break. The lyric itself says next to nothing but it's the fact that ...

  Now here's an Soul Train appearance. In honour of Ryuichi Sakamoto who is currently ill.

  A song for my late sister as I listen to Tapestry which I inherited from her while I wait for the corner Diner to open up so I can ha...

  Curtis was injured when a lighting rig was dislodged twenty four years ago today and landed on top of him. One of the greats. Still m...

  Featuring multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones on recorder. Sensitive flower!    

  I just got Gary Mulholland's two excellent books This Is Uncool and Fear of Music . I can't recommend them highly enough. Th...

  Emerging from NYC at round about the same time as The Ramones but very different. If The Ramones gave you the idea that perhaps you c...

  I've kind of seen enough of Brazil being beaten up. Blow the whistle ref. Third fourth match is utterly pointless. Put a stop to ...

  Seem to be on the subject of American Number Ones. This went there this day in 1969. Stayed there for six weeks. The only one hit won...

'4-5-6-7. All good cretins go to heaven.'   The Ramones are gone. RIP!     Here's a well written tribute from Th...