Some exhilarating garage rock for Saturday morning from defunct early 21st century band Lost Sounds, natives of Memphis, Tennessee. The...

By the time this is published I shall be preparing for I.T.'s 14th birthday bash- pizza, chips, fizzy pop and a dozen of his able bod...

I think there are slim pickings from New Order's Gillianless reformation since the turn of the century. Live they've been good bu...

Last one of these London Booted posts for the moment- I always assumed Lazytramp did this mash up as a joke but if you ever wondered what...

Continuing my short series of mashing up Victorian explorers with Clash mash ups; John Hanning Speke did actually discover the source of ...

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton- he was beat up, he was thrown out,  he was not down. He had a good tomb as well, in Mortlake. Worth a...

Ctel at Acid Ted has recently done a mammoth series of posts on the GYBO bootleg/mash up scene with interviews with a whole host of peopl...

I said a few weeks ago that there aren't many cover versions of Smiths songs that are any good, or at least that Smiths covers can...

H tipped me off to these- Public Service Broadcasting. Sadly not in time for me to see them in Manchester (they played here at the end of Oc...

They don't make 'em like this any more. I mean, listen to it. Sounds like it was recorded in a shed in five minutes round one mic...

Johnny Marr's first solo album is out at the end of February (which seems a long way away at the moment). Lead track The Messenger has j...

News just in- Billy Childish's Spartan Dreggs celebrate/promote the release of their new albums (Dreggredation and Coastal Command, b...

Country music's first death trip superstar Hank Williams knew how to pen a tune, and a fatalistic, gimlet eyed one at that. A little ...

Now, Movemberists, that's a moustache (as worn by Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, the man who trekked through east Africa, taking...

Ages ago a friend lent me a Cat Power lp- I can't remember which one but I listened to it and decided it really wasn't my cuppa tea....

The Bagging Area cat Husker died on Saturday evening. He was eighteen (human) years old, a good old age for a cat, and had lived with u...

Ginger Rogers proving that being a bottle blonde needn't end up looking too bad- as Tim Burgess has probably failed to do recently. A...

The Smiths were rockabilly fans, as evidenced in their quiffs if nothing else. Several Smiths songs benefit from the rockabilly sounds an...

Tedloaf's reactivated Confessions Of A Trouserist blog had a post on Intastella the other day and the belting little tune that is Pe...