It Starts With a Birthstone...

One of the great football names. From the wonderful Dutch team of the seventies.   

Twisting familiar sounding influences into unfamiliar shapes. That's what American band Palm do on their latest six track EP Shad...

One for the great lower case man.

Speaking of Procol Hraum, a re-post from a couple of years back: Album Review # 39 Procol Harum - A Salty Dog 'The songs hav...

The all pervading influence of Nick Cave on fellow Australian Jack Ladder is too encompassing to ignore for a moment, but here with his...

Not a bad thing to look like all in all..

'Jake La Botz hit the road at fifteen. He found employment as a roofer, boilermaker, factory worker, and obituary writer. In the mi...

Reclusive outsider artist gets a nod from Natalie Merchant.

And to follow that, a re-post of my review of In Between, still pretty much top of my own tree of favourite records for 2017: The Feelies...

It's a good year when you get two good Feelies albums and it seems that 2017 is such a year. The first, (from that band themselves)...

Chuck Prophet does his wry blues thing for an all-American icon.

One thing that I've got to know since I got going in earnest with this blog, and listening out for new music on a regular basis, is...

New Velvet Underground at Rosie's, which is always a good thing!

Douglas Mawson was an Australian explorer in the Golden Age for such things at the beginning of the last century who famously was forc...

A classy old school fey, indie tune, but from 2017. Appropriately from a bloke called Walter and his band. From the West Coast.

Craig Cardiff performs an appropriately elegiac tune for one of the great tragic figures of Twentieth Century music.

Utterly ludicrous. And all the better for it. Los Angeles French Vanilla have just released their debut, self-titled album and its a wo...

Best song tonight!

A song for one of the true free spirits.

                      No direct link to I Can't Live Without my Radio. But here's an indirect one.

St. Vincent back with a single you'd imagine preceding an album at some point. A paene to New York.The song doesn't outstay its...

The Luxembourg Signal preempt their second album Blue Field, out this Autumn with this utterly stately single Laura Palmer on Shelflif...

And while we're here. The band were always masters at claiming songs that fitted with their sensibility, tweaking them and making t...

So a bit of an R.E.M. day on here. I always keep returning to that band as they were my first love. Not perhaps the finest song on Docu...

A reprint for this review, merely because it's such an important record to me and the memory of such an important time of my life: Al...

And here's another. A song on the jukebox last night, partly for Sean, who works behind the bar, likes this album, and was in Rosie...

From the new Mac DeMarco. I'm not crazy about the whole thing, it does seem to follow this 'mellow fellow' vibe all the way...

                      Almost mythical American railroader and hero inspires Mississippi John Hurt.

Washington D.C. band of the Nineties. Seeds of Sleater Kinney, bit of Television. Sprinkling of Dr. Seuss.

The Decemberists sing about novelist and musician Myla Goldberg on their 2003 record Her Majesty The Decemberists which makes a number ...