Isn't the internet wonderful? A few days ago I got in from work to open an email from a reader- Henry from Manhattan, New York. That o...

2 Bears have been all over the place recently. I've largely ignored them up until now. Two men in comedy bear outfits making big room ...

I don't usually post mixes but I'll make an exception for this one- Ashley Beedle's Electronic Rudie, a dub mix done for the e...

Some nice Afro-Cuban Bebop from Joe Strummer, a short track (only a minute and a half long) recorded with The Pogues (moonlighting as The A...

Picking up where Lux left off last night, Memphis Minnie advising her partner to 'keep on eatin', 'til you get enough'. ...

'Calling all cows down on the farm' sings Lux Interior at the opening of this Cramps rockabilly cracker, borrowing from another ol...

Fail he may. Sail he did. He's in Australia. Some of you might like this, mix for a radio show Noise In My Head, to download in two p...

A good while ago DJ Diddy Wah who runs the excellent vintage sounds of the Diddy Wah blog had a short run of posts where he slowed down ...

In a similar vein to yesterday's post but actually a much better record is this, Security by Beat Club. When New Order called it a day...

In the mid 90s A Certain Ratio got various people to remix and retool their back catalogue for an album called Looking For A Certain Ratio...

Given all the goings on with Megaupload and the such it possibly shouldn't be a surprise that I've just logged into my Mediafire ac...

As a wee follow up to yesterday's Billy Childish post this is another of Billy's key songs, re-recorded with Medway folk-punk band...

I've been on a Billy Childish tip recently- his output is so varied and prolific. Music, woodcuts, linocuts, paintings, novels, autobi...

One of my favourite albums is Rancid's 1995 lp ...And Out Come The Wolves. It's not original or groundbreaking or envelope pushin...

You might want to have a look at this over at Soundcloud . Andrew Weatherall playing Back To Basics 20 last December. Starts and ends with ...

Another song from the Best Of Fury Rockabilly Volume 2, as promised last week. This one was a bit of a revelation. First revelation- it...

After escaping The Bunnymen Ian McCulloch released his solo album Candleland. It led with this single, a perfectly formed little song wit...

Kid Congo Powers probably doesn't have anything as prosaic as a CV (or a Resume if you're reading this in the USA) but the Former...

When X Factor was reaching it's thrilling conclusion a month ago and the eventual winners Little Mix announced that their shot at the...

A song from 1990's Four To The Floor e.p. where Manchester's A Certain Ratio returned to the dancefloor. Good Together is possibl...