Dr John, the Night Tripper, released Gris Gris back in 1968, still the spookiest New Orleans, gumbo voodoo rock album ever. Not rock musi...

There aren't very many number one songs about the Spanish Civil War. There's a copy of this poster in the Manchester Peoples...

One more Man Ray portrait, this time of poet and celebrity fascist Ezra Pound, looking as cool as a cucumber while contemplating a move ...

Some modern rockabilly tonight from Justin Townes Earle, who's made four albums of acoustic based Americana. The latest one, Nothing...

Also from the Repetitive Beats remixes e.p. came this offering from The Lords Of Afford (Weatherall and Dave Hedger). From the techno en...

In 1994 the Conservative government attempted to crack down on rave culture by bringing in a piece of legislation making it illegal to hol...

We love the bass here at Bagging Area Towers and never moreso than when being played by Jah Wobble. After a spell out of the music industr...

CTel at Acid Ted blog is having a month off, and having posted several thousand dance music posts in the last few years who can blame him?...

I've not followed the career of Lemonhead Evan Dando very closely. In the late 80s I had Lick on vinyl (one ace song that starts '...

There's something going on with blogger at the moment, things don't work properly- the post scheduling function isn't working,...

The Band's drummer, songwriter, co-singer and multi-instrumentalist Levon Helm died on Friday (he's in the centre in the picture)....

He's a street walkin' cheetah with a heart full of napalm, the runaway son, the world's forgotten boy, only five foot one with...

Johnny Cash reckoned Carl Perkins was the King of rockabilly and who are we to disagree with the Man In Black. In this song, a demo record...

This lovely Dusty Springfield song has been rotating in my head recently. Sometimes I imagine it segueing into Billy Fury's Wondrous Pl...

A teaser for Bagging Area's favourite 50s throwback Richard Hawley, where a dollop of deep, rich psychedelia gets added to the pot. Al...

A return to recent postee Kevin Shields and a song from the soundtrack of Lost In Translation (which came out in 2003. It really doesn'...

As an afterword for A.N., this is the dub version from the B-side of The Heptones wondrous Book Of Rules, posted yesterday. Get hold of tha...

I saw an old friend over the weekend and we sat up late listening to records and talking nonsense. We finished with this song, Book Of Rule...

Soft Cell's 1981 hit Tainted Love has so many hooks- that beat, Marc Almond's delivery, its marriage of the new (electro-pop) and...

A cheery love song for Sunday from London 80s band The Godfathers. Love Is Dead was a single from the Birth, School, Work, Death album. Goo...