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Summer Song came out three days ago, a third single from Sydney Minski Sargeant's forthcoming solo album Lunga (out in September). Summe...

The 21st December is the winter solstice. After today, it starts getting a little lighter every day. It may not be noticeable tomorrow but i...

Sean Johnston as Hardway Bros has a new EP out, an unabashed return to house music sounds and a homage to Murk Records (Miami based, formed ...

The first rule of Bagging Area Book Club is, uh, you can talk about it. It's an irregular series of music and literature crossovers star...

Back in 1992 Flowered Up, the London band whose live shows were seriously off the wall featuring dancer Barry Mooncult in a leotard and gian...

It's April already and I have the prospect of two weeks off ahead of me with various things to look forward to next weekend. Ahead of th...

A January 1995 episode of Top Of The Pops came up on the repeats on BBC4 recently including this performance of Protection , Tracey Thorn an...

New Year's Eve- I'm not sure what we're going to do tonight. New Year's Eve is a strange night at the best of times (unless ...

The pair of albums Ride have made since they reformed- Weather Diaries from 2017 and 2019's This Is Not A Safe Place plus the four track...

In 2009 Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve released a compilation album rounding up their remixes and re-animations of a bunch of artists- Th...

Ride's second life has taken a lot of us by surprise. I wasn't a huge fan first time around, a few songs notwithstanding, but age...

It's June, June already. How on earth did that happen? Summer has arrived in the north west of the UK recently and long may it contin...

Gabe Gurnsey, one half of modular synth duo Factory Floor, has been working on solo stuff. This track, Ultra Clear Sound, is the first fr...

Ride put out a song last year, Pulsar, that ended up being one of my favourite songs of 2017- Pulsar, a  dreamy bass driven guitar song a...

The return of Ride and their position close to my stereo is something I definitely wasn't expecting this year. I wasn't too both...

I expressed the view on Twitter recently that the new single from Ride is a lovely thing, shot through with an end of summer feel. Opinio...

To  follow on from yesterday's post, at least Pixies got two albums and the opening mini-album out of me. I bailed out of Franz Ferdi...

Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve are shaping up for what is promising to be one of the summer's best releases (album The Soft Bounce du...

Drew and I agreed on Twitter the other night that Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve's own re-animation of their recent single Diagram ...

This is shaping up to be a good few weeks for new music- here's a dreamy new song from Beyond The Wizards's Sleeve (Misters Richa...