It Starts With a Birthstone...

The fourth man on the moon. After retiring from NASA he dedicated much of his energy to painting, documenting his experience in space. S...

Written by Paul and Linda McCartney and first recorded on RAM. But it might well have been written with Screamin' Jay in mind. ...

And to follow that, an article I wrote about a wonderful Papernut Cambridge album a couple of years back:  Song(s) of the Day # 462 Pape...

So only fit to move onto the record label. Gare Du Nord , one of my favourite things at the moment. Clearly run on a budget but that i...

Whimsical. That's the name of the game with District Repair Depot's eponymous album, released recently on Gare Du Nord Records. ...

Time to flex my muscles with a new series. Focusing on current Independent Record Labels and starting with one of the most enduring of ...

Funky like a train. 1971 single by Albert Jones in honour of the then Oakland Athletics, when that was a very cool thing to be. They wen...

Swedish bands tend to do that C-86, Sarah Records, fey and carefree thang very well, while maintaining a Scandinavian feel to proceedin...

This song still sounded pretty special and turned some heads in Rosie's last night.

A suitably gloomy tribute to the great man of dark roles.

April comes. Easter goes. And with it this wonderful bolt of retro-kitschadelia arrives out of the blue. At least new to me, but I have...

Took Stuart Sutcliffe from The Beatles, gave them haircuts and acted as something of an early muse. A song for her with appropriate vide...

Not given an enormous fanfare, as far as I can tell, though I imagine it was in her native France, but a new Francoise Hardy album, (he...

The Manic Street Preachers have just returned with a new album Resistance Is Futile. And from it comes this, their tribute to Welsh Poe...

Two tracks from the fine, eponymous debut album from Mien, just out. Powered by Can influenced rhythms, the band are an indie super gro...

Birmingham band Distophia, and that appears to be Birmingham, the Midlands, rather than Birmingham, Alabama, (according to my research), ...

Spanish group Hind's second album, I Don't Run, just out, is a more mature update on their first, Leave Me Alone, from a cou...

Two tracks of instrumental funkiness from Tim Gane's post-Stereolab project. Very much continuing in the same vein with perhaps a s...

Italian band play tribute to Sixties icon.

Being original is necessarily a concern for any guitar band wanting to put out music in 2018. Sixty years plus down the road pretty muc...

Holy Wave are a West Coast American Psychedelic  guitar band who can be and inevitably will be slotted into a broad category along with...

Part epic song, part philosophical exploration.

Halo Maud is a French artist who occasionally reminds the listener of the otherworldly airiness of Bjork but certainly has her own thin...

'God's footballer. Hears the voices of angels above the choir of Molineaux.' A first for this series in that the name of ...

Those Unfortunates are an English indie band in the traditional, old fashioned sense. They are on the Gare Du Nord record label which s...

Born in Congo in 1978, Baloji moved to Ostend, Belgium when he was three and his music is a fascinating fusion of the influences of his...

Soundgarden get exceptionally heavy about the Georgia Peach.

How wonderful this sounds on headphones right now. There's something quite magical about Saint Etienne's first album Fox Base A...

My new favourite band, Part blah,blah,blah....  You can hardly escape influence when you're trying to create stuff, certainly n...