It Starts With a Birthstone...

A real case of the Nick Cave byline above for me yesterday when I chanced upon the song above at work, probably the first time I'...

You're the one for me fatty! 'Second verse. Same as the first!' You have to suppose that The Ramones got that idea from the ...

Rare. Not in that it's a sixties British novelty record. There were hundreds of them. But in that it's, (to my ears anyway), ...

Mighty Sparrow gives his two penn'orth worth about the Cuban missile crisis. Fairly plain where his sympathies lie. Not wit...

Best song off an interesting album from last year I heard yesterday from a London based singer-songwriter team Blue House. A smidgen of...

A long, quiet evening at Rosie's this evening without any of the regulars which allowed me to indulge myself. I wanted to listen to...

On a day that started out with a Go-Betweens related film, this book is out in Europe in July, (in English as well as German). There'...

Song for, (by all accounts), a rather contradictory man. From Austin roots band Shinyribs.

' If Michael Jackson had been a prebuscent Filipino-American recorded at the height of the discothecque era by the men who brought...

And to close this one off, the song playing over the movie's final credits.

From a very nicely judged mixtape compiled by Robert Forster which you can find here ..You can hear echoes of his own songwriting and s...

Great to hear a bit of A Certain Ratio once in a while. Underrated band!

The Super Furry Animals, who are one of those bands who very much like putting the names of the known in their song titles allow Neil D...

Entirely generic.But quite lovely at the same time. An Australian singer-songwriter, relocated to the States and on the verge of puttin...

A friend of mine, who follows this blog, mentioned this band in conversation with me today and then this came on the radio. Lovely Velv...

'She said her father looked like Woodrow Wilson..' Vic Chesnutt, an artist who deserves the term 'elegaic' as much as...

Appropriately given the image here, tick tock chiming guitar music in the tradition of The Byrds fand most notably the Stone Roses'...

Not too keen on the new Jesus & Mary Chain comeback album Damage & Joy. It's more of what you'd expect really. Paeans t...

And so another song for someone else who exists in that same tradition. Beautifully realised jazz vocals from Teddi King.

The new album from Perfume Genius No Shape is quite staggeringly good. Clearly one of the very best things I've heard for a long, lon...

Uruguayan born French poet. Died at just 24 but left behind Les Chants de Maldoror, a major influence on the Surrealists and a few deca...

A young Australian artist about to start her first big global tour. Has already sold out her dates in London and New York. Clearly a ho...

Jessica Lange. An ideal of female beauty at a certain point in movie history gets a song.

Classic lounge-exotica.

Estonian / Soviet Pop from the early eighties and really rather lovely!

New from Ty Segall on the radio to follow a T.Rex track. That makes sense in terms of programming.

A kind of nice piano led thing that seems to veer occasionally lyrically from Forster to Wilde.

Number # 2 on the US Billboard singles chart in 1967 with the help of the Wrecking Crew. It should have been # 1.

The Royalettes, one of the greatest hidden Girl Group secrets of the nineteen sixties. Out of Baltimore. They had a couple of minor US ...