It Starts With a Birthstone...

 

 Louisville, Kentucky's My Morning Jacket's eponynous new album takes a strange departure points. It is, it seems 1972. America'...

  'prodigiously talented and intelligent Welshmen.'

  I can tell you nothing about Ritt Momeny except that this song lives up to its name and is a sunny start to a Saturday morning.

 

    Needed to write about this. A chance hearing of a track from   Earth Man Blues,  the latest from Guided by Voices on the radio last nigh...

 

 

  Bjork's most wonderful single.

 

  More Kira and a choice selection from the record. Her duet with Mark Lanegan, Idea of Love.

  The delightfully named Kira Skov is new to me. Something of a Danish Patti J. Harvey, she's been a spectre on the scene in her native ...

 

 

  'all singing, all istrument-playing, dope-smoking, rap-quoting, Black Adonis...'

  Excellent selection from popy new album in Avalanches vein.

  Spector to Beach Boys to Byrds.

                         Michael F****** Irinside according to the song title but we'll keep things clean. Song for an actor with an inc...

 

 TF come good again...   Teenage Fanclub are one of those bands that you're glad are there. Or at least I am. I've been with them pr...

 

 

'insiduous and proud...'  

  Oxford, Mississippi's legendary Fat Possum Records  issues a genuinely Blues grounded record, the finally honed eponymous debut from B...

  Doo Wop, R& B Lieber and Stoller and then the white Pop conveyer belt that came to define LA in the early Sixties. Ricky Nelson, Eddie...

 

  It's odd but strangely delightful to witness major players on the Twee Indie scene of the late Eighties mature into middle age more th...

 

 

 

  Nicely honed singer song writing from Balitmore based Furrows. Definitely in the Elliott Smith school of thinking. Opening track from late...

 

 

  A rich, thick slice of Nostalgia. Sungs from the Lost Highway. For the time when Roy Orbison, Dion, The Everly Brothers and Del Shannon we...

  Fabulous, unexpected, if slightly overlong, cover of Give Peace a Chance.

  'The best song Prince Rogers Nelson never wrote.'

  Same Fender is a proper 'local hero' where I live. A young, smart, poiltically committed bloke from North Shield with real commerc...

 

    A Pessimist is Never Disappointed,  the site listed at the right hand side of the page, which has directed me towards so much wonderful ...

 

 

  'Yet anothier in the list of  Classic Number 2's...'

  Surface, the first track of Philidelphia's Church Girls latest album Still Blooms has all the desperate last stand anguish of a classi...

  My sister has always bought and still buys me the best birthday and Christmas presents. She understands my tastes and obsessions culture w...

  Dare! is forty years old today. One of the finest British Pop records ever made bar none. Put it on and dance around your living room.

  More from Dean. Duchess by Scott. Dean doesn't have Scott's voice. He wouldn't claim to. But he does a beautiful job on a quit...

  One thing the world might not need is a song called Anthony Kiedis. But this is  actually rather nice,

 

 Got complimented on this review by the band themselves which is always nice. Another fine record from them: In the absence of any new Fall ...