It Starts With a Birthstone...

And here's an article from The Guardian giving the background on the band. The Rails (New band of the day No 1,675) Take Richard ...

  From last years debut album. A husband and wife duo, drawing on the classic British folk tradition. She's the daughter of Richard...

Life is an unimaginable dream. You're caught forever between the faces and beauty you've seen, the people you've met and ever...

Friday night at Rosie's. Looking for Beautiful Friend by the same band. One of their underrated songs. It wasn't there but this...

I'm waiting for Monday, when the new Belle & Sebastian album comes out which I'm excited about owning. They recommended thi...

Number 1 in The States. Way back then!

Her debut album just got Uncut's Album of the Month. I can't vouch for it all but this is pretty good. A touch of Al Green with...

  Mid-Eighties re-creation of the Postcard Sound on Creation. Nevertheless, nicely done.    

Kevin Coyne on the radio which reminds me of a good friend who I've lost touch with through his appalling negligence. This takes me...

  Guitarist with The Undertones and That Petrol Emotion. Birthday today. Here are the latter.

  Haven't posted anything on this series for such a while that it might have been discontinued. But The Kinks early albums have bee...

  Now here's a group I never knew existed until yesterday. British synth base band from the late Seventies. Definitely Pop but toug...

  I could easily post a dozen Creedence songs off the top of my head. In this case I'll post this as I've just heard it on the ...

They played their last gig in Winterland, San Francisco this day. Here was their setlist:   1. God Save The Queen 2. I Wanna Be Me...

  Now this is an oddity. Johnny Cash submitted this for consideration for the James Bond film of the same name. Good song but it would ...

  Short and sweet. Less than two minutes. Former Plush singer.

  Has a beautiful, off key winding melody. That strange, disorientating melodic sense that links him with John Cale and Nico. Great tha...

A great article by a great music writer from The Guardian to celebrate a revolutionary moment.   Bob Dylan and the Subterranean Homesic...

  There's always a new band to discover. A Seventies band from Hamilton, Ontario. Wonderful!

  Now this is extraordinary and though I'm a fan of both, I'd never heard it before it came on the radio last night.

  Proper Southern Soul from Lafayette, Georgia. And it's from now. Great video too!

'I wish I had a Sylvia Plath.'   Belle & Sebastian have an album I'm looking forward to getting which comes out a wee...

  I just need to listen to 6 Music for a couple of hours to hear loads of things that deserve posting here. This was chosen by Pauline ...

There will always be songs that remind you of someone you went out with and the time you went out with them. This song takes me back to...

From Atlanta, Georgia. The second Southern American band in a couple of days. Also, the second 'bear' band in three. Better than ...

  Poor old Johnny Ray.born.

  A band from Charlottesville, Virginia who sound a lot like early to mid-period REM, with a touch of John Grant but in a good way. It...

It's Friday night. My natural urge is to be in my local but I'm home instead. Last time I was there I was alone and the pub was...

  In the article below Stuart Murdoch laments the loss of basic songwriting skills in music nowadays. You can still find it. Like here ...

Belle & Sebastian's new album is out in a week and a bit. I'm strangely excited about it seeing how deep they are into thei...

  Elvis would have been 80 today.

  I spent a day listening to The Brian Jonestown Massacre yesterday. This was one of the highlights.

  He was Miles Davis. He knew.    'Don't play what's there. Play what's not there.'      

  Alan Magee loves her. Well he would. Nothing original about this. Think Mazzy Star and The Velvet Underground and  slightly asexual l...

  The other day I put a Syd song on the jukebox in the local I keep going on about. One of the regulars heading out for a tab said ...

More Tom Waits but you can't really have too much. This album is very, very Brecht and Weil. The songs are not necessarily quite as...

  Sleater Kinney have a new song out. Here it is. Album to follow shortly!

Pretty much any Roxy song from the first two albums sounds pretty remarkable on the radio. But this in particular just now. Not least f...