It Starts With a Birthstone...

Where Terry Jacks started in this psychedelic sixties project based in Vancouver. He ended up with Seasons in the Sun which is coming...

Apparently a teenage favourite of Jonathan Richman's. Much more to these two than the smash hits we all know.

10,000 Maniacs play a song from 1990's Hopes Chest about Italian Modernist painter Giorgio De Chirico which sounds quite a lot like...

'I guess in some strange way she knew she'd never have a father's arms to hold her...' A tale of teenage pregnancy an...

A song for an age where truth seems as undervalued as it has been in living memory. Forty five years down the line!

I posted something about After Hours on here yesterday and this also features in the film too in a great bar-room scene with a couple d...

Last song of choice strangely on Rosie's jukebox early evening before going off to listen to Depeche Mode of all people at The Reco...

No direct link but here you go . From the 1967 album Priscilla Sings Herself, and an artist it seems to me who doesn't quite have t...

This is the politics of, (some) other people and their petty, unfounded and ridiculous prejudices those these beliefs may be implicitly...

In Martin Scorsese's 1985 black comedy After Hours,  anit-hero Paul is interrupted in his late night diner reading by a beautiful, ...

John E. Vistic has a neat schtick.  From Bristol, though you'd think he might hail from Memphis, given his swagger. A singer songwr...

One of the more exciting albums coming up around the bend is Routines from Bloomington, Indiana band Hoops. Here's Rules  a pre-re...

Bobby Sherman was an American teenage idol of the late sixties and early seventies, possibly best known now for Julie, do ya love me. F...

The title track and opening song on Chuck Prophet's just released and quite wonderful new LA Noir album, Bobby Fuller Died For Your...

Some environmental politics.

Still stumbling upon records from last year that I missed first time around but take my fancy as I chance across them. Here's anoth...

Just because I wanted to put a very good, but slightly obscure song from a wonderful band and  a very great album on the jukebox! ...

Their first television appearance from 1979 when they were still on Zoo Records and still a Garage band in essence.

And to round off the day, and this particular series to three hundred, back to Joe Meek a British pre-Beatles legend and Wreckless Eric...

'Did I fall or was I pushed...' Now for some real life political tragedy. Thom Yorke says this is the angriest song he's ...

                                    Appropriately, given the theme of today, doomed youth!

The record sets off with a version of one of the ultimate 'death discs'. Johnny Leyton's 1961 single, produced by Joe Mee...

More doomed romance and an opportunity to start a new brief series. A genius concept, 1992's collaboration between Strawberry Switc...

Today seems to be the day for doomed wounded romance. Sorry, it happens to be St. Valentine's Day too but that's purely coincid...

Barclay James Harvest are not fondly thought of in critical circles in fact probably precisely the opposite. But they weren't witho...

Still relevant.

Chicago's Flesh Panthers album Willow's Web is a fine piece of countrified rock. Virtually every song sounds like we've cra...

Reminiscent of a slightly rockier Hope Sandoval, Julie Jacklin's Don't Let the Kids Win from last year is well worth a listen. ...

Another obvious choice but one that needs to be here. Still pertinent, especially right now.

' Bobby Darin - even more than Dion - was the best-equiped of all the early Italian- American rock and roll singers to follow in t...

Here they are again, playing Why Does it Shake,  also posted below. Staggering!

The byword for Detroit's fabulous Protomartyr is Post Punk. The trace of arty late seventies and early eighties legends is unmistak...

'Walking in someone else's dream.' While we're with Roger here's a song that chooses him for its title. From Paci...

                                                            '  Not just the funniest punster in country music - one of the finest Am...

Not an explicitly political song obviously, Paul Simon wrote a lot of things that would fit more obviously into that category, but it...

  This doesn't sound like a record you'd imagine being made by a band called Surfer Blood. Just out, and named Snowdonia,  and ...

' 'I never kissed a bat. I never kissed a goose. But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room. Let's have a party!...

Song for the highest paid British author of the thirties from the legendary French musician Alain Souchon.

Originally a # 12 Billboard hit in 1970 and then revitalised with NWA's  sample for the song of the same name almost twenty years o...

One of the best pop songs of this millennium, and hey it's about immigration and violence! I'll let it speak for itself.