It Starts With a Birthstone...

  There was a gig during my first year at university which became the stuff of legend. I wasn't there. Isn't that always the case. I...

 

  The second Song of the Day album in as many days from New York musicians. Start spreading the news, again lads. Sophomore album Your Day ...

  What more could you want on a Friday morning than More Songs About The Sun. Just on cue here come Pye Corner Audio with just that. Feelgoo...

 

 

  The best way to be drawn unto a new record I find is to hear it first time in a record shop.Yesterday I wandered into Canterbury after a l...

  Sam Cooke is one of the great 'What ifs...' The hanging question marks. 

  I listened to Jesse Ware's latest album Superbloom last night. I'm listening to it again now. She takes the heady essential ingre...

 

  I have this album on record and every time I play it it immediately makes me want to own all of Broadcast's albums on vinyl. They were...

  It's that Velvet Underground sound !  Full of great tunes this one. A good song to me is like a narrative. Something that takes you in...

  This album was so ubiquitous in the Eighties that it's difficult to write about without severe jaundice  and melancholy sinking into m...

 

 

You can buy a vinyl copy of Parachutes in Waterstone's if you wish to. Well 'We live in a beautiful world'  as the song goes. I...

  Lenny Kaye strikes me as an admirable man. A Rock & Roll Man. Goin' Local his debut solo album at the age is simplicity and wonder...

  Philadelphia's Labrador's first album for four years The Rosy Red World has a wonderful sleeve. An image of unwashed plates and c...

 

 

                                                         'The moral of the story is fish....' Theres always space in the pop marketp...

  I went to a Record Player event when thinks suddenly clicked into space about Kraftwerk. They were describing the future.

  Some albums make more sense as you get older. I still struggle with  Waters self regard but this appeals to me more than it would have don...

  Chicago's National Photo Committee are a proper throwback on long awaited debut album Red Hot Photo Committee. To eccentric American a...

                                                                                                                     Relentless.Strangely ex...

 

  By 2009 Manic Street Preachers had refined what they did to brand status and you either cared what they had to say or you didn't. I aw...

 

  'Yesterdsay's rain. Falls on tomorrow's parade.' It's Robyn Hitchcock the grand old dame of English Psychedelic Rock w...

  'Let's go out tonight'. No let's not lest's stay in and feel sorry for ourelves. 'Do you remember when we used to...

  ' Mysticism lives on for us as aesthetice experience.We become mystics when we listen to the muic that we love...' Simon Critchle...

 

  Notwist always make me think of a late friend who loved them. Music is like that. They have a new record out there which is excellent. The...

  'We yell like hell to the heavens...' We start with fireworks. Then drums. The guitars meshed in feedback. Then piercing militant ...

                               'Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs at you.' Getting through the day by th...

  Nagoya's finest. A bowl headed quintet Trooper Salute release one of the most evocative and versatile records you'll hear this or ...

                                                  Good luck with getting to the end of this ....

  Saturday morning becomes Saturday afternoon. And Jesca Hoop's new album Long Wave Home suddenly is a preferable option to.... well an...

 

  Pavement were always rather wilful. That was their charm . And their flaw. Stereo is one of the mst annoying songs I've ever heard.It...

  Amenable Indie Chug.

  'Yesterdsay's rain. Falls on tomorrow's parade.' It's Robyn Hitchcock the grand old dame of English Psychedelic Rock w...

  Buck Meek new album The Mirror .has a strangely retro cover . He's looking over his shoulder, clasping a chainmail fence. It's all...

  This is fifty years old. It seems like a differnt century !!!

 

  The Strokes and I have history. Twenty five years ago, between their first and second albums I went to New York City with a good friend an...

  Mozza's Fave!

  Forty Minutes. Make a lastomg statement. In its way as explosive as the first Gang of Four and joy Division from the quiet, well behaved k...

  Dogwood Tales working with Euphoria Again. Destination Heaven.. Where we're all going to meet again I trust. An emotional Alt Country ...

  Filmic. All of the fun of the fair.