This fantastic compilation came out back in June- fifteen songs from when Jamaican dancehalls rocked to the sounds of US influenced r...

This documentary was on BBC2 the other night, a very good look at the Northern Soul scene, plenty of people young and old flying the flag ...

New Order live in Barcelona from 1984, audio only but what a great performance and superb sound quality straight from the mixing desk. It...

Two people (Drew and my Nuremburg based brother) have pointed me towards this recently which I had seen but hadn't posted- and it turn...

I'm foregoing the rockabilly tonight. I just got in a while back having spent an hour and a half standing on the hard shoulder of the M6...

A while back this caused a brief spike in internet traffic and Twitter buzz- Dolly Parton's Jolene slowed down from 45rpm to 33. It is...

I don't know if you're getting bored of all the Clashery round here and elsewhere (and you really shouldn't be, it's The Cla...

Intrepid explorer Ernest Shackleton would possibly listen to this piece of sun-drenched, meaty, uplifting dance music from Simon Shacklet...

There isn't much information to go on with William Onyeabor. In the early 80s he recorded several albums of electro-Afrobeat which h...

A lovely podcast mix thingy from, yup- no surprises here- Mr Weatherall. It's in a similar vein to the one from the Green Man last mo...

Free gift for Sunday anyone? Paul Weller was done up by Justin Robertson and it was never released, so Justin's gone and put it on S...

Jaime Hernandez (see earlier) wrote and drew the legendary 80s comic strip Love And Rockets, full of edgy indie-punk girls, who sometimes hu...

Back to yesterday's postees Wendy and Lisa (as drawn by comic artist Jaime Hernandez, thus cleverly tying in with the post about comi...

The Prisonaires' Just Walkin' In The Rain came out on Sun Records in 1953. An African American doo-wop group, the were all incar...

Listening to and posting that Orb remix of Lisa Stansfield at the start of the week (available on Aubrey's Excursions Two, which is ...

Goldfrapp's new album, Tales Of Us, is a bit of a grower. It is largely folk crossed with baroque with Alison's breathy vocals, t...

Nice aren't they? This is The Teardrop Explodes (co-written with The Bunnymen, when they all got on. Hated each other but got o...

I wasn't planning back-to-back Weatherall posts but this appeared yesterday and I thought you'd be interested. A curious couplin...

I was up in the loft the other day, which is full of boxes of stuff that have now survived two house moves. Getting up and dow...

Credit where it's due- I was reminded of this by reader and citizen of Salford Paul Bob Horrocks and it's a stunning way to start...