It Starts With a Birthstone...

  Another band from the clearly blossoming  Oakland Califirnia music scene. Yeah- Ming & the Rumours  I Can't Have It All  is a quit...

  So I've got fifty minutes so I thought I'd listen to  a Fall album as it's appared on one of the charts that I'm working m...

  Oh Jack White !

 

  Deerhunter drummer and co-founder is here, with Cemetry Classics his second album under the sobriquet Moon Diagrams. It's a name whic...

                 A gamechanger. That manic laughter on the edge of losing it, still transports me back. 

  A memory. A very happy one. How listening to  Climate of Hunter  by Scott Walker, on a  Facebook  group which I'm a member of, which d...

 

  I like records that sound like they're floating or drifting in space. OK Spiritualised I guess meet the criteria though they're go...

  I didn't immediately find much that appealed on my intial browse through New Release playlists late on Friday and early on Sunday morn...

  Claire Danes gets hazed, druggy. Indie- tribute that mentions smoking a joint. 

  As someone who has always struck me as incredibly  'Big Apple' it's almost inevitable that St. Vincent has a song called New Y...

  'Much beloved of Kurt Cobain.Great melodies overloaded guitars, saucy lyrics - a perfect combination.' 

  To listen to Jacques Brel is almost to listen to a bygone world. A magical experience of re[ise and reflection. . 

  I prescribe Soft Covers,They have the remedy for all your maladies. In the words of their Spotify bio,'  'Homemade and well loved...

  I read a interesting though slightly foolish  article yesterday. Under the headline The Big Idea, Guardian journalist   Rebecca Nicholson ...

  A fabulously eclectic record .label,

                                                       Fiercesome song for a warrior lady.  

  This is the record I think of when I think of Sonic Youth. It's fierce, uncompromising, gnarled. And very, very New York. 

                                                  I confess I always found The Cult rather comical.

  Rather generic and unremarkable Grunge lite sound. .

We're going to wait 'til the midnight hour. When there's no one else around. Then head down to the nearest cemetery dressed all ...

  Indiana Indie Popsters Wishy serve up a buzzy rush on latest album Triple Seven. Superchunk came to mind early on. My Bloody Valentine som...

  HEY EVERYBODY! THERE'S A GREAT NEW HORSE JUMPER OF LOVE ALBUM OUT ! IT'S CALLED DISASTER TRICK !!! The wotld gives an incoherent s...

  'Tom get your plane tight on time. I know your part will go fine...' A song that will always remind mee of one of the best friends...

  Mid Air Thief are South Korean and dabble in Folktronica. Whatever that may be. It's in rude health on Crumbling which finds man meet...

  Oddball 1981 album. Not a million miles away from Howard Devoto's sensibility. Also owes somethung to Syd, 

  Choosing your band name carefully is prudent I'd say when getting together and heading onstage and eventually hitting the road. It...

  Cornwall's finest. The Bound & The Infinite the kind if album title that immediately appeals to me. The kind of thing that would h...

  In the promo for Sapokanikan, Joanna Newsom saunters through the streets of New York  Her songs always have a surreeal, dreaming quality. ...

  There are worse things to listen to as I prepare myself for another immersion in online teaching than Eno. Clears and focuses the mind. 

 

  In the words of Nilsson ' Thursday's such a crazy, lazy day.'   I love Thursday's. The end is in sight But unlike Harry I...

  Neo Soul from Surabaya, Indonesia.  Thee Marloes would surely be right up Quentin Tarantino's street. Debut album Perak is cool and s...

  'New York is what you make of it , It acts as a Rorschach test which you can proejct your feelings onto. It can be whtever you want it...

  'Mott's career saving hit for Mott was a soliloquym a street rap, a London love letter and an existential scream from a new genera...

  Look up Dave Matthews Band in any worth its salt dictionary, You'll find a picture of Dave Matthews Band next to it.  

  There's a band playing on the radio..; I love Roxy Music. Some discount them after Eno went, certainly their late Seventies and early ...

  Is the world really waiting for the next Libertines record. I suspect not. They're hardly front page news anymore though they, or at l...

Lethargic, slightly depressed but trying to put a bright face on it Indie Rock from Jade Lilitri out of Long Beach, New York. New album lif...

 

                                                            'Sweet's poignant farewell to youth...'

  The end of a road. Another one starts tomorrow.

  One of the best things about doing this series is the opportune to reflect on and re-evaluare my feelings for records and bands that I exp...

  Traffic are an incredibly cpmforting voice from Folk Rock past.  John Barleycorn Must Die is as good a way to experience their bucolic, ea...

  If there's one thing that Corin Tuckey and Carrie Brownstein the remaining pillars of Sleater- Kinney are, it's survivors. For tha...

  Bruising. Genuinely bruisng. It was a quality of music when I turned twenty and headed towards my thirties. Husker Du. Sonic Youth. Pixies...

  The Ziggy fable pictured Glam as a Sci Fi New Testament, and its irresistible advance single, a euphoric call to arms, was the message to ...

  Base camp on this particular incline is in sight.

  'When they embrced technology . New Order also weirdly became a better guitar group.'  I confess I found New Order slightly prosai...