It Starts With a Birthstone...

First song, second side of Horses,  one of the most significant and best rock albums ever made. It's currently enjoying its Fortiet...

As I preceded with this series I wondered whether I would run dry of new artists to feature here. 601 days in and I show no signs o...

Need some Jazz on this series. This will do. You get the short version.

Onwards and ever upwards! Andrew Oldham Orchestra Dion & the Belmonts Big Youth The Left Banke The Undisputed Truth Ted Taylo...

Ninety nine and a half just won't do. So here's six hundred!

Always great to hear this. Strangely, (and there's too much kismet in life for my liking), I'd just put on the first Seeds albu...

While Jethro Tull committed a great number of dreadful sins over the course of their career, as documented in the contemporary criticis...

And to follow that up with another Courtney post as she and her band go record shopping in LA.

I've posted a lot of Courtney Barnett on here in the last two years. This is the first thing of hers I came across, since when I...

'Go Rimbaud and go Johnny, go!' That was Patti Smith but this is Van. Not just the Gloria connection between these two. For A...

Now here's something completely different. A quite beautiful clip from 1981's Diva. The film itself - two tapes, two Parisian m...

There's something slightly melancholy about this great mid to late Pixies single. At least to my ears. Perhaps it's the knowled...

More echoes of the sixties. But from 1982. The best album ever made about being seventeen. It came out when I was seventeen. This is my...

And having mentioned them in the post about The Beau Brummels below I'll repost my Allah-Las review from a year back. Also partly on acc...

The Beau Brummels were a band who never quite fulfilled their potential. Formed in 1964 in San Francisco they signed to Autumn Records ...

I was sold on the band name before the song came up. And that's great too. 1985 record.

And in honour of Dexys, here's a repost of the review of their first album which I wrote on here almost two years back: 'It w...