It Starts With a Birthstone...

' Sign Your Name was the deepest soul track on D'Arby's brash debut LP. D'Arby's music is classic black pop in a t...

For Len.

The first track of Doherty's latest record Hamburg Demonstrations.  A precise demonstration of his talent though the whole album is...

A look back through time from America in 2016 to a historical figure of stature, and Afro-American role model, Thurgood Marshall, who w...

From eternal optimism to a Leonard Cohen record. Though he was never the miserabilist that dullards pegged him. First, a disclaimer: Se...

Paul of Paula & Paula fame.Their moment was Hey Paula a Number 1 single in February 1962 and a eulogy to youth, teenage love and et...

' Raised and trained for the Grand Ole Opry, the Everly Brothers never rebelled. They just added so much rhythm and blues to the mi...

Boston, Massachusetts is a city with a fine tradition for punk / new wave guitar bands. Modern Lovers, Pixies, Lemonheads. Bent Shapes ...

No, not the Weezer song. I was never really very taken by that. Instead, a song supposedly for Buddy, (though I don't think it men...

I came upon this record a month or so back on one of those 'Overlooked Records of the Year' lists. I was glad to because it real...

On his Spotify page Doug Tuttle has a playlist of his favourite songs. It's full of melodic, guitar driven pop music from The Byrds...

The Bunnymen's chamber quartet album, and this, it's final song and crowning achievement.

An album I came across early in 2016, thanks to a friend's recommendation and it's stuck with me all year. Go Biblical! Ol...

Same song as yesterday but this time Aretha's 1974 version.

One of the great made to measure songwriters of the sixties and seventies. Generally he wrote for other people but this is from his 196...

Listening to The Sundays on a Sunday just now leads me to re-post this. Song(s) of the day from a couple of years back. There are a l...

Perhaps the best live band I saw this year and a great album. Here's my post from early in this year: Some album this. Just out....

Best known for I'm Your Puppet and their version of Shake a Tail Feather but I've chosen these two instead. Great examples of m...

Second portion of Nap Eyes today. Their two albums, from the last two years Whine of the Mystic and Thought Rock Fish Scale are really ...

A double serving of Nap Eyes today. These two from their album of 2015 Whine of the Mystic which acts as a companion piece to this year...

The conversation, even around music is pretty difficult to be honest. League tables and competition and wanting to be at some point of ...

Adapted from a Song of The Day post a month back. ' The initial plan  was to make a record that maybe my wife would like. The mus...

One of the leading bands on the San Francisco late seventies Punk wave. Supported The Sex Pistols at their last gig at Winterland. Th...

Album Reviews # 4 The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional I just saw on my feed that someone, appropriately in Australia, was reading...