It Starts With a Birthstone...

  A sad anniversary and a great talent. I'll be listening to Elliott Smith today.

  From a 1968 album by members of The Scaffold who had a UK Number 1 hit the same year with Lily The Pink. This particular track is mo...

  Happy Birthday to a true hero and role model.  

  'My letters sit on your window-sill Yellowed by the sun Written that time our love was in its prime They just ran off my...

  'I was dressed for success. But success it never comes.'   I'm still not entirely sure what I think about Pavement. B...

  Pretty much speaks for itself. Great writing and knowledge beyond his years.   'It was a $1000 wedding, supposed to be held t...

Bobby 'Boris' Pickett and the Crypt Kickers started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Monster Mash'. It g...

  He and his wife died at the hands of a firing squad on Christmas Day in 1989. A tyrant. But there are plenty of those and it doesn...

  Another mellow start to the working week. I know nothing at all about the artist though a quick search told me she's collaborated...

Possibly not the Lou Reed album you need most. Here it is reviewed at the time of its release by Peter Laughner for Creem . Laugner is on...

  Born this day.

  Ok, so this is pretty good! Otis Redding's backing band amongst other things.

   

'It's loud as hell. A ringing bell.'   P.J. Harvey: ' When I think of Doolittle I immediately think of I Bleed becaus...

Sleater-Kinney, who have a career retrospective box set coming out on Sub Pop next week are a band that have inspired incredible eulogies...

Jacques Dutronc on the jukebox in your pub. What more could you want?

  This is interesting. From 1966. Their only single. On the surface pretty conventional but at a certain point in the instrumental brea...

  From a band who generally charted the shallowness of Generation X a bit too closely for my tastes. Still, they had a knack of writing...

  Yet another great Australian band, this time from Brisbane. Plus an extremely odd video.

  Happy Birthday Rico !

  U2 released a song dedicated to Joey Ramone recently. That's not getting anywhere near here. This is infinitely preferable. More ...

Here's a very upfront and revealing interview with Moore from The Guardian . I saw him a couple of years ago in a small upstairs room of...

  No direct link but it's here ! In the UK for the past 10 years or so there's been a radio station called BBC 6 Music which wa...

  Thurston Moore's new music sounds impossibly good! This must be what comes of moving from Connecticut to Stoke Newington. Here...

  Probably the greatest closed space in history in terms of the creation of Rock & Roll Art closed today in 2006. It shouldn't ...

    From Anthem, which came out in 1984. I bought it. Held my first house party the same year. My copy of this was smeared liberally...

' Incorporating the avant-rock of underground Cleveland bands like Pere Ubu, the angular slash and burn of the English post punks, t...

  Born this day.  

I had Rosie's pretty much to to myself tonight along with the lovely Lucy, Assistant Manager. So I indulged myself on the jukebox. ...

Eric Burdon made some interesting records after he left The Animals (because this is them only in name, not much more than a backing band...

It's now 30 years since this album came out and this interview took place, was written up and published in The NME. I bought the reco...