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  What more could you want on a Thursday morning than Utahs rowdiest Alt Rockers. Especially if they're called English Budgies. And thei...

  Late Developers? Arrested Development more like. Belle & Sebastian kick off their fourth decade of  and making records and performing ...

 

 

  Heaven 17 were the most political of bands. These were the most political of times. The memory of inner city rioting was still raw. The mi...

 

 

  I've found another one. Where are all these truly wonderful new records coming from. This latest one is Mary Elizabeth Remington and h...

 

  Another new day. Another great new record. And it's only Valentine's Day. I'm astonished with what 2023 has had to offer music...

 

 

  1982 was really the year that my star and Tears For Fears rapidly ascending one aligned. Mad World, t heir breakthrough single which made ...

 

 

I feel with Beat Awfuls, who I picked up on from the wonderful A Pessimist is Never Disappointed site yesterday, that I might have already c...

  I don't think I've ever heard a Robert Forster record that I didn't like. I can't think of another long running musical ob...

 

 

  Pete Wylie always had a mouth on him. As wide as the Mersey as he might have sung himself. Wah! the band he fronted had plenty of great so...

 

 

  Canada's Universal Honey latest Dandelion  is by no means essential. You've heard it all before. But if you've ever tapped a t...

  I like Paramore very much. I'm not what you might call among their natural constituency, They are YOUTH, although that might sound str...

 

 

 

  Matt Johnson continued to put out great records for many years, but he was never quite as meaningful and hard hitting to me personally as ...

 

 

  Ambient, instrumental awe t the vastness and wonder of the universe. Sometimes that's all you need on a Sunday morning. A Canadian art...

  I made a big, big mistake with Yo La Tengo. I should have got into them in the mid Nineties really. Round about the time they really began...

  Spring is coming fast. Prepare yourselves. Meanwhile those of a nerdish disposition are already making lists before there are even any bud...

 

 

  I never cared for Malcolm McLaren. I always found him distinctly sleazy. Well, let's face it, one of the distinctive roles of the Rock...

 

 

  Yesterday was my kind of record release day. I can't remember one that I enjoyed so much. It had pretty much everything. A fabulous Yo...

 

 

 

  Paul Weller folded The Jam and mounted up and set off again on a horse of a different colour with the Style Council, much to the bewilderm...

 

 

  Friday morning. New releases day. How wise that they've switched this to the end of the week so that you can enjoy them all the more w...

 

 

  Great single which deservedly hit the Top Ten. Smash Hits  loved them.