Superb blast of garage rock by John Dwyer's Thee Oh Sees, from their The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending The Night In album from ...

Some lo-fi, garage rock goodness for you this lovely Tuesday. Ty Segall is from San Francisco, and plays either on his own or as part of a t...

Pressure Drop, by Toots And The Maytals, is one of the great reggae songs, and was covered in brilliant rock reggae style by The Clash (b-si...

Back after a fortnights absence this week's rockabilly action comes from Dublin courtesy of Imelda May. She's done Later With Jools ...

After the end of Big Audio Dynamite Mick Jones formed a band with mate Tony James (formerly of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik), and st...

Arab Strap guitarist Malcolm Middleton released a solo album in 2005 called IntoThe Woods. This song Break My Heart was the opening track an...

Mission Of Burma were an American post-punk band, a three piece guitar band with a fourth member, Martin Swope, who played 'tapes', ...

Bleepy, dubby, low-key, electronica from Nightmares On Wax (Warp Records, 2006's In A Space Outta Sound). Nightmares On Wax is Leeds DJ ...

While I'm on a roll, from 1995, Fun-Da-Mental remixed by Weatherall's Sabres Of Paradise. According to wiki Fun-Da-Mental are a ...

From 2006, Weatherall's remix of Darlin', by the ungoogleable XX Teens. I know little about the band, other than they changed their ...

Some Andrew Weatherall for you on an August Wednesday morning, where at the moment it's not raining. This is the Two Lone Swordsmen remi...

One of the most visually interesting things about The Specials was the brass section, who looked like two old men compared to the frantic ...

A couple of Sundays ago BBC4 showed Ray Davies' set from this year's Glastonbury, where in a masterstroke of scheduling he was up ag...

Nick Cave is back next month with his heavily bearded, heavily laced with black humour, heavy blues guitar monster machine Grinderman. This ...

Stylistically a complete turnaround from today's earlier postees McCarthy, and I can't think of anything to say about this 1991 hit ...

Described by Nicky Wire as 'communism with tunes' McCarthy were Stereolab man Tim Gane's first band, releasing three albums and ...

Your honour, I'm not and never have been a goth, but like most 80s subcultures there was something going on that is worthy of credit. Ex...

One of the highlights of holidaying in the Cotswolds was visiting a multitude of historical sites in the area- two Roman villas, a ruined Me...

Back from a very pleasant week away and this song has been digging it's way into my head all week, due to it soundtracking the adverts f...

By the time you read this my family and I shall be on holiday, cottaging in the Cotswolds (not that sort of cottaging, honestly, you lot and...