It Starts With a Birthstone...

One week ahead of the release of the new Kevin Morby album Oh My God, he releases a second taster for it that makes me anticipate it mo...

' There's not a lot going on in my town. Working in the chippie or kicking cans in the playground,'  Beth Truscott, one hal...

Nice.

Joanna Sternberg is a twenty eight year old, currently rather obscure New York artist, (she has a Facebook page where you can befriend...

Fine new album from Charleston, South Carolina's Conor Donohue, his third, entitled  Let Love Contaminate. Think Kevin Morphy, Matt...

The jukebox has plenty of Gil.

And here's the final track of the record. One for Pablo.

I watched Juno again on Sunday. I find myself wanting to do so every couple of years or so and enjoying it thoroughly every time I do....

Song for notorious American pin up Betty Page from The Jazz Butcher's 1984  album A Scandal in Bohemia.

Something of the Ezra Furman, Hold Steady, Mid-West 'in the gutter but looking at the stars' spirit from Charleston, Carolina...

Appropriately atmospheric instrumental for the Horror master.

You had to be there. I was. One of the best and certainly most important bands this country ever produced. On the first date of their reu...

Titanic Rising , the third album from Weyes Blood, was built up into something before it was even released, (a week back) by glowing, alm...

Now this is just great. Re-constituted Lover's Rock from a young American girl with a French name who chanced upon this stuff one ...

There are some things so reliable that you could set your watch by them. One of these things nowadays is that there'll be another g...

The Proper Ornaments' third album  Six Lenins is a trip down familiar lanes. The band are something of an Indie supergroup, featuri...

Light, jangly Indie pop band from Austin, Texas.

An interesting discovery of mine from earlier on this week. Greek Indie trio Film Jacket 35 and their second album, The PR Foundation. ...

As we're on a slight Julian Cope day here, this is an instrumental from the great man named after the guy from Neu from his Jehovaki...

I'm currently reading Julian Cope's wonderful Eighties memoir Repossessed which will doubtless inform my musical choices on her...

Liverpool, 1962.

Courtney returns for reasons that remain unclear for the time being with a new song. It's treading water lyrically and musically ra...

A good friend of mine has recently been texting me the plot of Jean-Paul Sartre's first novel  Nausea as he reads it. I appreciate th...

Chiming, I guess they'd call it Dream Pop, from Jakarta, Indonesia. Very nice too.

Something of an Indie institution after more than twenty years of releasing records The Fruit Bats, essentially Eric D. Johnson are back....

Now here's a glorious concept. A collaboration between two people who have never actually met. Amsterdam's Estella Rosa and Mun...

One of the most interesting British bands to emerge in the last couple of years are Leeds outfit Mush. They've been putting out angul...

Way back in the early Eighties kids, there was a musical scene in California that came to be called The Paisley Underground. It was ful...