From deepest Reigate Thee Faction play Marxist R'n'B, of the guitar led Dr Feelgood variety rather than the other types of R'n...

More from Vintage Sex Songs, a double disc set of r 'n' b, jump, jive and blues songs. Poon Tang is slang- Urban Dictionary describe...

Eddie Cochran record shopping with his girlfriend, looking for a cure for those summertime blues maybe. This record features one of rock ...

Dennis Hopper Choppers previously featured at Bagging Area here , almost a year ago, with a song from Ben Nicholls' one-man-band first a...

If we've got proto punk (The Stooges) and punk (Sex Pistols) we must have post-punk, so here is the almost ungoogleable Dum Dum Dum by D...

Our son Isaac is thirteen today. He was born at 7.37 am on November the 23rd 1998, changing our lives forever. Isaac spent the first two wee...

Nearly two years of posts at Bagging Area and I've never had put up anything by the Sex Pistols. They split up in 1978 after a traumatic...

In 1969 The Stooges took rock music and reduced it, the first time it had been completely stripped back to basics in its then short life, r...

Woo hoo, woo hoo hoo, woo hoo, woo hoo hoo, woo hoo, woo hoo hoo, woo hoo, woo hoo hoo This might have been better saved for Friday night; T...

Browsing the compilations section of a certain megastore recently I found a cd entitled Vintage Sex Songs. The blurb on the back read 'H...

Aw, this is a belter of a song and as rockabilly as anything recorded between 1956 and 1959- The Cramps and Love Me. In fact it sounds like ...

Classic rave/house tune from 1992, Opus III's It's A Fine Day to get your Friday off on the right foot. Originally by Hulme poet and...

I feel like I've been going round in circles here recently- Weatherall, Clash, JAMC, dub, rockabilly, repeat to fade... So to anyone who...

The older I get, the truer I like to think that line becomes. Country-rock legend Gram Parsons is one of those 'you must like him' p...

It's been quite Mary Chainy round here recently and I was going to leave it alone but then this appeared on the mp3 player on the way to...

...is how Mick Jones once described Sandinista. Paul Simonon recently spent two weeks in a Canadian jail having been part of a Greenpeace te...

I know it's a cliched and grumpy old man complaint but Christmas starts earlier every year and it gets on my wick- the shops have been f...

Some Sixties bubblegum for Monday, via yesterday's Tommy James and his Shondells. This is a peach of a record, surviving being mauled by...

As a response to Drew's posting of Joan Jett's cover of Crimson And Clover I thought I better post the original- Tommy James And the...

One Lone Sworsdman Keith Tenniswood released a very good electro album in the early 00s in his Radioactiveman guise; nice synth sounds, clat...