This came in via an email and I'm glad I followed the link- nice uptempo, funky house from veteran German producer Boris Dlugosch and...

I haven't got any tattoos- never seen one I really liked enough to make me want to get it done. I'm not saying I don't like t...

George, a regular commenter and Friday night rockabilly enthusiast has been having a clear out and found a book he thought I might be in...

Today I have withdrawn my labour in protest against Michael Gove and his plans to further alienate the teaching profession. The Secretary...

Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J Fairplay's Asphodells album has been remixed by various folk and is due for release this September. S...

You might have thought that by 1988 Siouxsie and The Banshees were past their best but this No. 16 hit would suggest otherwise. There...

This Hollie Cook and Prince Fatty cover version has got everything needed to make a great little dubby reggae song- snaking melodica, du...

I've long had a soft spot for the recorded output of Pete Molinari, who I think I first discovered via his Billy Childish connections ...

This King Tubby track is what dub should sound like (to my ears anyhow). Tubby mixing it live at the desk, The Aggrovators supplying the...

Bagging Area loves the reggae and dub of Prince Fatty. He's currently in the States with Hollie Cook (whose album from two years ago was...

In a similarly deep and funky vein to yesterday's Four Walls/Craig Bratley track comes this remix of Femi Kuti and it is tip top. Big...

I've posted this song before but it bears repeating- Sparkle Moore (born Barbara Morgan) was a pioneer of 50s rockabilly. She toured ...

This is a delightfully deep, dark Craig Bratley remix of Four Walls from back in 2011, featuring a man talking about going nightclubbing...

This week's Joe Strummer/Clash obscurity is from the soundtrack of a 1993 film, When Pigs Fly, that ran out of cash. Joe wrote eight...

Drew's running a series of hip hop tracks from 1988, over at Across The Kitchen Table. By brilliant coincidence I heard both Express ...

From the B-side of Primal Scream's 2006 single Dolls (largely glammed up riff-nonsense) was this little gem, a remix of Bloods by Wea...

I read a review of La Yegros in the Sunday paper from the World Music section, probably not more than eighty words in length, and decided...

I keep bumping into Azealia Bank's epic filth-fest 212- most recently in the hairdressers my daughter and wife go to when I took youn...

Mark Wynn, York's own machine-gun lyricist and chronicler of the absurdities of 21st century life, is back with not one but two ne...