The Chemical Brothers have done the guest vocalist thing as much as anybody. I was going to post Out Of Control, but JC at The Vinyl Villain...

Half Man Half Biscuit- laugh out loud funny, biting satire, popular culture skewered, more references than a South Bank Show Special, detail...

Lovely piece of acoustic instrumentalism here, nylon guitar strings, great melody. Huck is guitarist with London garage band The Flaming Sta...

We've been to Salford Museum and Art Gallery today. There's nothing like dragging two children, one with special needs, round an art...

Friday night disco action, released at the end of last year. Detachment's HAL remixed by Weatherall. It's a good 'un. Hal_Andrew...

I published a post the other day about The Durutti Column, where I said that Factory Records was the greatest record label ever, and seeing ...

I have been known to play records at peoples' parties. This started about 10 years ago, when people started having 30th birthdays and ge...

New Order are among the greatest musical combo's ever to walk the land. I could probably write thousands of words about them, but I don...

I saw Lil Lost Lou supporting Wild Billy Childish in a basement in Stoke Newington on a trip to London last May, and was impressed. They...

Following on from yesterday's post about Keeping The Faith this is Hypnotone's Dream Beam, not the version that appears on that comp...

By 1991 Creation Records had caught the dance music bug and released a cracking compilation called 'Keeping The Faith'. It rounded u...

Factory Records was the greatest record label there was. You can chuck in Stax, Motown, Creation, Rough Trade and any others you like depe...

This has been sitting in my drafts folder for a week or so, so I thought I may as well click 'publish post'. It dawned on me recentl...

This is one of the best things I heard last year, London duo Joe Gideon and The Shark. Bloke on guitar and vocals (Joe Gideon) and girl on d...

After The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays gatecrashed Top Of The Pops in November 1989 there was a scramble to sign anyone with a guitar and a...

This is Terry Edwards' barnstorming cover of Never Understand by the Jesus and Mary Chain. Instrumental version- JAMC drumming with sax ...

Another track from Mr. Wild Billy Childish. A tribute to a Kentish cycling club his mother joined in June 1944. Not your usual topic for a r...

House favourite Andrew Weatherall released a solo album last year, A Pox On The Pioneers. If you havn't got it you need to get over to R...

Edwyn Collins has been widely written about on various blogs, not least over at The Vinyl Villain, and I'm not sure I can add too much. ...

Dan Treacy of Television Personalities has had a chequered life and career, including drugs, prison, Creation Records, Part Time Punks and B...