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Rosie is becoming very young nowadays, Here's an old song.

One of The Doors very first songs and apparently the one that formed the band when Jim Morrison first sang the lyrics to Ray Manzarek i...

Ahead of the Supergrass man's next album.

Courtney Barnett has a way of making me happy! Like no young and relatively new artist that I can think of. She's been having this e...

What do they say about falling off a horse? It's best to get straight back on. With that in mind, as one series ends on It Starts W...

When I was in New York twenty years back, on a great trip with one of my best friends, we went to a nightclub called The English Disco....

Might as well end with Joe...

Something frightening for Wednesday. A genuinely disquieting listen; Romance, the recently released album from Brooklyn's Oneida, a...

The song I heard tonight. h

True modern maverick. A prolific musician in his own right, but also producer of Sonic Youth, Wilco, Stereolab, Smog and Joanna Newsom a...

Just re-released. A single from American Soul Folk singer Bobby Wright which first came out in 1974. Wright, (now Abu Talib), slots rig...

Turkish singer Sila plays tribute to French symbol of ultimate cool.

Out on Sup Pop a couple of months ago. A new project from Shearwater's Jonathan Melburg from a self-titled album, also just out. ...

Anything from the pretty much flawless first Beat album, I Just Can't Stop It, sounds pretty good to me. Like this, on a sunny Sund...

Pioneers of The Philadelphia Sound. Produced The O'Jays, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, The Jacksons, Teddy Pendergrass and Lou ...

As definitively Indie as you could possibly want, bespectacled Seattle trio put out their latest album Lived Here Before this January. ...

Rough Trade Shop's recommendations are generally a useful barometer to direct you to something new and interesting. Their Record of...

And the man who produced Big Star's third album. In addition to The Cramps, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Alex Chilton, The Replacements and...

And with stars in mind. Here's a playlist.

London band come up with a wonderful approximation of Gram Parson fronting Big Star from their recent album Songs For Somewhere Else.

Halifax, Novia Scotia's Nap Eyes return with their third album I'm Bad Now, and it's a triumph. Both of their previous reco...

Producer and writer of My Boyfriend's Back, I Want Candy and Hang on Sloopy in the Sixties. Co-founder of Sire Records with Seymour...

  Jim Dale, best known as an actor in the British Carry On films, was also a songwriter and singer, most famously as the lyricist for T...

Producer of the classic run of Stones albums from Beggar's Banquet to Goat's Head Soup. Had a hugely notable career in addition t...

'Nightclubbin' I'm alright. And I'm working on my exit strategy...' The reinvention of our most precious past con...

The astonishingly named Australian artist Amaya Laucirica has a new album called Rituals, just out, her fifth in all, but her first int...

And from the man who produced that! Also produced Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and Dusty Springfield. And that's just f...

Julien Barbagallo, drummer of Tame Impala, has his second solo album, Danse Dans Les Ailleurs, just out. Here's the lead off track ...

'Here's the church, here's the steeple. I like the party favourites, but I hate the party people...' New from The Hol...

Because it is. Or at least it can be. And sometimes that needs celebrating late at night on a partial Monday night lock in at Rosie...

Work, (though not production), with Bowie from the mid to late Seventies. Talking Heads, Devo, John Cale, Ultravox and his own pioneering...

The anxiety of influence. What to do about it? How many times have you seen a review of a new record over the past few years which cite...

Having beer for breakfast. Silly fellow...

Right at the top of the tree. Produced and wrote for Elvis, Peggy Lee, The Drifters, The Coasters, Ben E. King and umpteen more. This wa...

Did Not Chart one of the most individual and interesting blogs listed on the right hand side of this page has led me once again to som...

With a mind to a longer post on Felt coming up shortly on here. Given that their first five albums have just been repackaged and re-relea...