It Starts With a Birthstone...

  First of a few charts for 2023 from elsewhere. We start with The Guardian. 19 in my 150. Lankum - False Lankum Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy...

                                                                                             'I've been out on the road drinking cof...

 

  As excellent as Bunnyman , though it was the only music book I recall reading. Would like to read Thurston Mooore's and Pauline Murray...

  Slowdive are a funny one. I paid them little attention first time round. When they were treading the boards, in their unassuming Home Coun...

Tapir! Smote Dignam Porch No Teeth

 Top three lists from various places: It Starts With a Birthstone: Lankum - False Lankum  John Cale - Mercy Craven Faults - Standers Mojo: B...

  Credit where it's due. This blog would no longer be this blog without the excellent suggestions and steadfast support of Darren Jones....

  Finally, finally getting through to 25th December has felt personally a bit like battling through a blizzard of attrition. I'm not act...

                                '                                             Tell me a story. Let me drift..' Frantic Drift The won...

  On top of my list. Like many others, It's an immense album. Planning to see Lankum early next year. A record I've been waiting wit...

  Writing this blog on a daily basis, and focusing for the most part on newly released music, you can't help but discern certain shapes ...

  This is an odd and drawn out list. It's the longest I've made since I started these things ten years back. For the last few years ...

 

 

  Better late than never. La Baracande's eponymous record from earlier this year. An album that came to my notice in a list of recommend...

 

  The first mate that keeps on giving and bringing treats for the rest of the crew at the Captain's Table at the end of another day of t...

 

                                                      The Zerox, Newcastle Quayside I guess we're all looking for spiritual homes all ou...

  It's great to have at least some big beasts still among us. At the end of last year, belatedly I started listening to the latest Brian...

 

  Indianapolis, Indiana duo Rocking Chair square the circle you didn't realise needed squaring between The Replacements and Meat Puppets...

  'My mother said I never should. Play with the fairies in the wood.'  'Do you Believe in Magic? In a young girls' heart....