Jamie Principle and Frankie Knuckles' Your Love is one of the cornerstones of modern music- the two note bassline, that sequenced arp...

This is New Order's gorgeous cover version of Keith Hudson's reggae tune Turn The Heater On, done for a Peel session in 1982. Th...

This garage rock nugget from 1967 by The Third Bardo could well be the very best 45rpm single of it's kind- nasty, short, distorted, ...

Sunday morning- time for a 12" remix that I bought having seen it referred to on the NME's club page back in 1991, then as now ...

New Order in imperious form live in Japan in 1985. In fact this show was filmed exactly twenty nine years ago this coming Friday (2nd May)...

   A new (to me) thing I found on the internet recently- Mick Jones doing a funky electro-pop 12" excursion in 1982. Blind Lead Th...

Imelda May has been doing the chat shows promoting a new song and presumably a new album too. A few years ago Imelda and her band played...

Do you want to see some of my holiday photos? We were in Kent last week, staying on Romney Marsh. I've only ever travelled through Ken...

I was listening to the radio while on holiday last week (through the telly no less) and the disc jockey played Bag A Wire Dub by King Tub...

Today I offer you two Weatherall related items that popped up when I was away that you might have missed. First a twenty minute docume...

Back home, back to work, back to the blogging... I'm a bit pushed for time having driven from the Kent coast to Manchester yesterday s...

I've never quite been able to figure out quite why Big Star are held in such high esteem by certain middle aged men. The first album ...

I pulled this out the other day, a superb blast of punk energy from antipodean upstarts The Saints. Not that any of them looked much lik...

1957 was a golden year for rockabilly. Brenda Lee cut several rockabilly influenced singles including this one which earned her the nickn...

This is an absolutely essential record from the imagination and fingertips of Richard D James, a record that sounds like its title (a tit...

I've never been to Stockholm. I've been to Helsinki, which was lovely. Someday I'm going to do a Scandinavian tour. I'll ...

Third post in a row in what seems to be turning into an accidental 'what the punks did next' theme week. Greg Dread (Big Audio Dy...

This 1991 single was a big hit in the US for Siouxsie and the Banshees- Stephen Hague production, Talvin Singh on tabla and backing voca...

Ian McCulloch had a solo album out last year which I didn't spend too much time with (for unknown reasons, time probably) but have re...

For those of you of the Weatherall persuasion this is a bit of a treat (and those of you that aren't of a Weatherall persuasion must ...