It Starts With a Birthstone...

And for no other reason other than that I can and it seems utterly appropriate after Beach House and that I can, here is Julee Cruise a...

Back in the day kids any self-respecting band would release an album a year as a matter of course. Nowadays, groups who put out one eve...

with Patti An incredible set of photos of Dutch artist Betty Ringma photographed with virtually all of the leading lights of the mid ...

Side 2 Track 4 2 mins 23 secs. Robyn Hitchcock sings about Basingstoke and Reading satellite towns to London, which to American ears ma...

Super melodic start to the new week from Real Estate member doing a solo thing. From an album on Domino Records. Out soon.

And while I'm reposting, off to see Ride play tonight so here's another thing I wrote from a few months back. Ride are an o...

A heartfelt review of a record from my youth. Written about a year ago... This is pretty much a perfect record. There aren't th...

Reposting this because I can. From this April.I have all of these in vinyl form. Would stand by most of these though. Have popped in  Neverm...

For many reasons. But most of all this morning for that searing guitar solo that runs throughout the fade out of the song.

Side 2 Track 3 2 mins 40 seconds. So of its time.

Chuck Berry. 89 today.

I don't generally buy albums on or around their day of their release nowadays. Hey, we're all getting on. But something about D...

A just re-released album from 1983. Read the backstory here . Very much in the same vein as David Byrne and Brian Eno's Life in The...

Sometimes only a bit of late seventies Post Punk will hit the spot. Bristol based The Glaxo Babies from their 1979 EP This is Your Life...

Aztec Camera's take on Blue Orchids marvelous 'hit in an alternative universe' Bad Education.  Roddy Frame, with his innate...

Side 2 Track 2 3 mins 53 secs. A just wonderful lyric.

From the 12 inch on Popscene , the band's fourth single. Has that weird psychedelic edge that they shed as they headed towards Park...

. This is from a couple of years back but time has not withered it/ Wondrous!

Side 2 Track 1 2 mins 33 secs. The Seekers, more than anything else, is the music of my childhood. Subsequently I go rather mushy every...

From her latest album Slowtown Now!

  An interesting slice of history. The song itself melodically is pretty much as lazy a rewrite of Common People as it's possible ...

Side 1 Track 14 2 mins 38 secs.

The early nineties London based, 'Shoegazing' scene has had a surprisingly notable legacy. You can hear its influence everywher...

One of the more interesting comeback turns in the offing at the minute is Rocket From The Tombs. Fronted by David Thomas as ever, with ...

Came out today 36 years back. And I bought it shortly thereafter. One of my earliest albums.

I know nothing of LoneLady. Perhaps I should!

From a Ventures record called Super Psychedelic which I bought today. ' Far Out !' might not be an unreasonable response.

Side 1 Track 13 2 mins 30 secs. One for the platform. Apparently born on a scrap of paper when Simon was at Widnes Railway Station on t...

Former Race Horses, (no, me neither) singer goes solo. I think this is his second single. That's all I can tell you though I would ...

I enjoyed this tonight. I imagine you might enjoy it too. Kurt and the rest of the band take you places!

Side 1 Track 12 3 mins 38 secs. Beautifully strange song from 1984's Treeless Plain. Posted recently but hey, it's a good son...

As a music fan in the eighties and nineties you did what the weekly papers told you to do. As a result in 1991 I found myself troopi...

It's been a while since I posted any Courtney. Here's her cover of Rowland S. Howard's song for The Boys Next Door. Before ...

The Stooges on early evening radio no doubt in tribute to saxophonist Steve McKay who's just passed. Another Stooge down! Hear him ...

Carey Lander, keyboardist and vocalist with Camera Obscura has just died in her early thirties after a long struggle with cancer. Here...

Both Lush and Vashti Bunyan are on my mind at the moment. Lush, I'd say one of the more underrated groups of the nineties have rece...

Side 1 Track 11 3 mins 13 secs. Oh yes! Genuine 'woo woos' here.

With a new Deerhunter album imminent, I'm revisiting something from leader Bradford Cox's solo project and their album from 201...

And from that to this. Sounds good in a quiet pub on a Sunday afternoon.

October 10th 2015 The Inkwell, York £1.00. The best of Phil Harris. A very enjoyable saunter back round York again on a Saturday. Break...

Side 1 Track 9 - 2 mins 52 secs. A nicely crafted, if ever so slightly voyeuristic song, lyrics by critic and writer Clive James, about ...

Fittingly, a week in the blog which has focused largely on distinctive, female vocalists from Sibylle Baier, through Binky Shapiro, Vas...

This is not in all seriousness. Of course it's atrocious. B Side to another gloom-fest. Jacks smash hit Seasons in the Sun. But thi...

Side 1 Track 8 3 mins 20 secs. One of Dylan's most covered songs. But this is surely the version.

Saw Jane Weaver and  her band play Newcastle last night. I have to say I was slightly disappointed. Perhaps my thoughts were slightly e...