Since launching this blog almost six years ago, Django Django has been the artist that I've received a takedown notice for.  In fairness, i...

A resplendent version of Trouble Understanding by The Charlatans , performed at The Church in London in 2015 to promote then-new album Moder...

Proceed appeared on The Roots ' second album Do You Want More?!!!??! in 1995, and was lifted as a single, retitled Proceed II and featuring ...

We may be facing an existential threat from A.i.* but on an individual level, I think I'm not alone in sharing that there are many times I'v...

Remembering that time I saw The Jesus & Mary Chain at The Studio in Bristol.  It was 14th November 1989, a Tuesday night, and at that point...

I had half an hour to kill, waiting for Mrs. K, and I scrolled through BBC iPlayer until I found a 'best of' this year's Green Man Festival,...

Last Saturday's 80s Weekender feast offered up Flesh For Lulu , who I had - and retain - a deep love for. My brother had their 1984 self-tit...

Mogwai celebrate Happy Tears , a career retrospective, with Underground, a new song featuring the unmistakeable voice of Iggy Pop . The mom...

Unlikely as it may seem, this is Visions Of You, performed by Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart and Sinéad O'Connor on Saturday morning B...

How did that happen? Somehow I've managed to get to post #2000, more or less intact, though my dignity fell by the wayside a long, long time...

I've followed Neil Young's music pretty much from the time that I started buying records, and a birthday gift of a an original vinyl issue o...

Postponed from yesterday, here are  The Psychedelic Furs at the Colston Hall in Bristol on Monday 16th February 1987. Which is kind of iron...

The gremlins have struck again and I have had to shelve my planned post for today, so here's a little dip into the archives for some 80s (or...

The beauty of a cover version is that it expands the work of an artist you like, whilst opening the door on another that you may never have ...

The marvellous Strange Brew in Bristol has a superb double header this Saturday, with She Past Away and ACTORS bringing some noise to the...

You'll be relieved to know that I've lifted Chiedu Oraka's lyric from last Friday's post and opted for a different "Seven Days" for today.....

A succinct, if dispassionate comment by  @QuotableTunes   on the latest single by Marshmello ,  featuring Portugal. The Man . Three and a ha...

Or, "Three Threes On This Day" from the UK singles chart. Walter of A few good times in my life fame may be consulting his solicitors as I ...

My second post of today is dedicated to the headline act at the Bristol Beacon on Wednesday evening. Have you guessed who it is yet? No? Wel...

On Wednesday evening, I zipped down the M5 to see  Jane Weaver at the Bristol Beacon. A big deal for me as I had tickets for Jane's gig at ...

I was hooked on  Chiedu Oraka 's new single Cocoa Butter on the first listen less than 24 hours ago, and the video, reimagining America's Wi...

Today's post title is the first comment left on the YT posting of TV Priest 's new single, Just So You Know, left by  @psydefekct I know naf...

When ABC returned in 1985 with a new line-up comprising founder members Martin Fry and Mark White , plus David Yarritu and Eden aka Fion...

"Losing a cat is like losing a lover" , opines Momus in the opening line of his new song, Lost Cat.  I have checked and Catty K is accounte...

Whether it's 'tinkling' or 'tickling' seems to depend on where you live, but in this neck of the woods, it's always been 'tinkle'. And in my...

An hour of dub not dub today, with a 10-song selection of remixes circa 1996. Dub '96 follows the tradition of previous Dubhed excursions to...

Danny Briottet has revived Renegade Soundwave with a package of upcoming 'rewires' by an impressive roster including Carl Cox, Leftfield, ...

Happy birthday to Richard Melville Hall aka Moby , born 11th September 1965. Whether you're aware of Moby as a musician, vegan, Christian, b...

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Another entry point into a long-time career, I stumbled across Kutiman and You Will Shine, the title track of his forthcoming album, and se...

From yesterday's working class hero to today's Working Men's Club and a new song and video, Devout. First impressions, very good. I can't h...

Once A Man, Twice A Child was released last week, one of the finest Dexys Midnight Runners of their entire span. If Love truly is the final...

Calling a single Hit Song is a bold move, and not a guarantee of success, as Peter Murphy discovered in 1992. His previous singles in the m...

Eight long songs, all emptied from my Bandcamp Friday shopping bag, half and half new releases from 2026 and 'older' songs and remixes. And ...

Saturday morning started with a headache in bith the literal and technological sense, so I’m bashing away with my oversized fingers and thum...