It Starts With a Birthstone...

Highly emotive stuff from Nineties New York band, slightly reminiscent of Pavement, for the General, (or at least his Memorial).

January is such a quiet music in terms of good new music that you're grateful when anything that catches your attention comes down ...

A song appropriately romantic in tone for the great American screenwriter and director.

Last Spash makes it to Rosie's.

Having finally come to the end of one very, very long series, the thing to do seems to be to commence another. One of my proudest posse...

It was interesting to carry out a basic field poll with friends, colleagues and barmen about Arcade Fire almost fifteen years after the...

£5.00 Rock Bottom, Whitstable  Bought from a proper collectors shop in rapidly upgrading Whitstable. A 1975 compilation from K-Tel ...

Remarkably, this most long running finite series of all finally comes to a close today with a highly appropriate Number One. 'I...

Seattle/Olympia Dream Pop band.

Modern Life is Rubbish, probably my favourite Blur album makes its way to the jukebox at Rosie's.

Latest Milk! Records signing with an album forthcoming.

Mark Perry's ATV, (also Alternative TV), had several good songs. This was undoubtedly their great one but there's a Best Of  on...

Ex Hex are back in 2019 and very welcome. At least in my book. Here's a taster for their second album, It's Real, due in March....

Another song from current favourites of mine Advance Base. An instrumental for documenter of the All-American way of life Frank Capra. ...

74 today

I can tell you nothing about The Memory Band except that they're a long established British Folk band. I saw this on a playlist of ...

At the time in the early Eighties, The Bluebells seemed a slightly second division Aztec Camera or Orange Juice. Now I find them a lot ...

More from The Shifters. This time 'in honour' of controversial Right Wing Australian political commentator.

Melbourne's Shifters, (fancy, a good new band from Melbourne !), cook from familiar ingredients. You can hear early Fall, Clean, Te...

Young Norwich Grungey band honour one of the finest British actors.

Grand Rapids band Major Murphy perfectly replicates the feeling of Big Star's second album Radio City where the chord changes seem ...

Return home and to Rosie's to find the wonderful Armed Forces imported on the jukebox.

New Specials. Just like the old Specials. Good Specials!

1978

Trembling Bells had a good year, (certainly on here), last year. Here's vocalist Lavinia Blackwell doing a similar, though rather p...

Rather unlikely hardcore tribute to the ultimate 'method' man, who cheered up my Christmas enormously when I witnessed his perfo...

'Three pals from London', says Cheerbleederzs Bandcamp page. I can tell you little more about them except that this debut, (fro...

£10.00 Soundz N Sitez, Canterbury  An album I've long coveted, not least because it's a fine record, but also for its cover a...

Not at my home base now but staying for Christmas and New Year with my parents in Canterbury. My father has a lie in every morning and ...

Canadian champion from Heavyweight Boxing's Golden Age.

Welsh Psychedelia. A diverting trip down Syd's garden path from their album of last year.

French band do Indie and party like it's 1984 in Dunedin!

Bit of proper, old school Indie. From last year, as so much on here will be until the musical wheels kick into 2019.

Slightly belatedly, I've compiled the five lists I published just before Christmas from Mojo, Uncut, Q, The Guardian and myself to ...