It Starts With a Birthstone...

Connie Converse is the most magical artist. I'll have to write more about her on here on here at some point. Enough for the time bein...

Another day, another series. I plan twenty of these and haven't made my list yet. Just a set of evenings and experiences that stick o...

Mick Karn was bassist in Japan. He was also one of the finest bassists in the world. He died tragically young a few years back. This was ...

Stephen Malkmus being Stephen Malkmus. Oh and rather Kraftwerk, He adds a K to Victor Borgia. From his latest  'cleverer than thou...

,  The best single song I've heard so far this year. I'll write more about it and  Psychodrama,  the parent album it comes from...

In Rosie's with two of the Cundall brothers, one of whom was on his way to the Stranglers concert down the road, with lots of songs...

I'm rather taken by Undone at 31, the new solo album by New Zealander Martin Frawley. It seems to document a stressful breakup in h...

And here's their first taster of that new album, which is called Wheeltappers & Shunters ( which you have to be British and of ...

Good to see Clinic, one of the finest British bands of the past twenty years back shortly with their first album in seven years shortly...

We'll follow that up with a song for the man himself. But not from Swedes I was a King but by Finns Penniless. Teenage Fanclub, clea...

Swedish band I Was a King's latest album Slow Century is produced by Norman Blake. They have a song from a previous record called ...

'When I was a boy. No rooftop on my joy...' From the cradle to the grave. Kevin Morby is an artist of incredible taste and ta...

Quiet empty Rosie's for a quiet wonderful song from the first Roxy album before a large noisy crowd stormed the pub, fresh from the...

'Grace Slick knows best'.  Or at least she used to...

'I’m so sad, I don’t know what to say. Hal Blaine was such a great musician and friend that I can’t put it into words. Hal taug...

Young, vowel-less Hull band, ( I'm sure you can join the dots), putting out a series of singles and EPs where the influences are ev...

More Pottery and the only other song they have out there, from late last year. Also highly likeable, this onemore  reminiscent of Omni. ...

Came back to find this coming out of my radio and was thrilled. More Punk Rock, but in the here and now from a band from Montreal. You ...

Civilised Punk Rock and chat evening at Rosie's tonight.

Short, atmospheric instrumental piece of one of the strangest icons of the counter-culture.

This sounded nice wafting out of my radio late on a Sunday afternoon. From Snapped Ankles who generally sound a little more urgent and ...

Jacques Loussier, a fine and very specific musician has passed recently. Probably best known for his jazz re-workings of Bach, he created...

Now here's a great record. Later recorded by Donald Fagen, ( who clearly agrees). for his Nightfly album. A Lieber and Stoller com...

Murray A. Lightburn. Now there's a name to conjure with. And here's a record to listen to. His new album, Hear Me Out, released...

S.E. Hinton wrote a series of bestselling novels, most notably The Outsiders and Rumblefish while going through those years and her tw...

'Here's a penny for your thoughts. Incidentally, you may keep the change...' I was told last night  by Young Sean the for...

The Long Ryders as they were in the mid-Eighties and their Miller Beer ad for which they got a fair bit of criticism at the time.

The Long Ryders are back in 2019 with a new album Psychedelic Country Soul and this feels like a good thing. They sound very much how t...

The jury is no longer out on that jukebox for me. Don't like it. Still, at least it does have lots of Buffalo Springfield songs. ...

Getting yourself a good title is finding yourself halfway to making a great  record. Bobby Powell did this in 1963 and then effortlessl...

Lester gives ABBA the thumbs up. Quite right !

Great afternoon in Rosie's with two of the older regulars Billy and Toy ( everybody has a nickname in Rosie's ). We all enjoyed...

And so we're done. I've certainly thoroughly enjoyed writing about these albums while reading the essays arguing the case for the...

The  go to Curtis Mayfield album is generally considered to be 1970's Curtis . The one with If there is a Hell Below and Move On Up ...

Wild! From 1956 and a Brooklyn street corner Doo Wop band.

Led Zeppelin once stalked the earth and left records to prove it. Frankly the world has never seen their like before or since. Their shee...