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For my young nephew Felix who's busy getting into The Beatles. The Help soundtrack is a great mid-career record full of almost cast...

Another of Hibbert's more off the wall selections but I can get behind this one. Minor-league British Glam band, this went Top Ten ...

Yesterday I became aware of Ultimate Spinach, a late sixties Boston band with perhaps the ultimate, sub-Spinal Tap, psychedelic name of...

The lead song off Richard Thompson's 1972 record Henry the Human Fly.

Teleman a British band who emerged from the ashes of Peter & the Pirates a few years back, can be slightly variable in terms of the...

LA based band Mystic Braves have a song on their 2014 album  Desert Island called In The Past (*)   where the lyrics indicate that it m...

East Los Angeles. 1966.

The Kinks were very, very good!

Ladies and gentlemen, we are all floating in space! Never more so than in my own case this afternoon, sitting at my computer screen at ...

 Written by Jimmy Webb of course. this was a Song of the Day of mine almost two years back. Here's what I wrote about it then: ...

Folk musician and songwriter probably best known for penning Morning Dew a post-appocalyptic protest song . This comes from her 1969 se...

Well, well, well! To turn on the radio and hear the new Violent Femmes and it sounds refreshingly like the old Violent Femmes from back...

I'm posting this clip again because I've just picked up my own second-hand vinyl copy, (which is complete with all inserts), of t...

Unlike most of Tom Hibbert's selections, I don't really see the appeal of this. But here it is anyway!

'I've been sound asleep for twenty years...' Tim Gane turned up on here yesterday and here he is again with his first ban...

B-side to I Ain't No Miracle Worker and just as good as the flip!

A song that sounded very good at Rosie's tonight from a very good album, Blind Faith's only one, with a deeply offensive album ...

His debut. The Innocents EP, a beautiful, eerie record, released in 1977.

The Krautrock Plains if any such things really exist are pretty endlessly fertile. Ask Tim McCarthy, once of McCarthy and Stereolab and...

Start the week with one of the great voices. Mexican-American singer who died tragically young a few years back.

Patti Smith doing what Patti Smith does, being inspirational.

From Charles Shaar Murray to his NME sparring partner.Finally getting round to closing off this series which dates back a couple of yea...

Or more accurately, assassinates it. I listened to the record for the first time for a while the other day and though it's an album...

Peter Laughner, founder member and guiding light of Rocket From The Tombs and Pere Ubu was a self-consciously dark character. He chose ...

Eleanor Friedberger's third album is the first new long playing record I've really fallen for this year, with the exception of ...

  I try not to make hard and fast judgments but I do feel quite strongly that bands shouldn't put themselves out there with names l...

Isaiah 13:10 The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will ...

One of the scariest, most deranged singles ever to reach the UK Top Ten where it sat in the Number Ten slot for a month.

 Smashing Pumpkins were a truly great, world-beating band for a couple of years in the early nineties. I bought this record, went round...