It Starts With a Birthstone...

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  To my ears the stand out song from their most feted album. 2005's Z. Spectral!

  R.E.M. performed live on The Tube 31 years ago today. In Newcastle, the town I now find myself in. Jules Holland announced them as ha...

  The latest picture of the blog poster girl! In Berlin.

  I vaguely remember a book I used to leaf through at Richmond Junior Library when I was 10 or 11. It had pictures of classic record sl...

'Life is like a ball of beauty that. Makes you wanna just cry. Then you die.'   Kurt Vile's wonderful album Wakin on a Pr...

That bloke, who'll you'll remember if you're British and a certain age and remember That's Life! on the TV on a Sunday night...

  Thanks to com padre Andy for directing me towards this. We know where it's coming from but that doesn't make it any less grea...

  Sun's coming up. It's Tuesday morning. From the part of my life when the end of an important relationship felt like a death. ...

  This arrived today. Sometimes owning a record is as much about the sleeve as the record inside. In this case the album is just great ...

Listened to this album at work today for the first time in a couple of years and found it scary. So found this particular song on the j...

                                               One of the great cult heroes. Born this day.

  Named after Tour De France winner Pedro Delgado which is a great thing in itself. The greatest band to ever come out of Motherwell. I...

This song inspired a couple of moments. A few years back at my birthday party where I was DJ-ing above the Jazz Café in Newcastle that ...

  A quite astonishing clip with Nice Cave, Mick Harvey, Tracey Pew and Phil Calvert, from 1978 pre-Rowland S. Harvey and The Birthday P...

  Eleanor Friedberger makes all of the cheesiest moments of 1970's pop culture and  music sound like a great idea. Listening to her...

A repost for a review I wrote while watching a World Cup Semi Final in July with the sound turned down. And clearly getting steadily drunk....

A rough early Friday evening at Rosie's. A baying pack of Irish blokes  had taken over the bar and were howling incoherently at the...

35. Don't Let Him Come Back (Robert)   'He wants an excuse To be where King Richard rules.'   One of their best earl...

  With Grandaddy I made the mistake of buying the wrong record, their first album Under The Western Freeway. It has its moments but is...

Here's the latest unbroken run of a hundred days. 201. Jan & Dan 202. Santigold 203. The Boomtown Rats 204. Tim Rose 205. ...

  The most laid back song from a turbo-powered debut album. From 1977. Brisbane Punks. Quite reminiscent, at least for me, of Sticky Fi...