Alfredo Hlito's Chromatic Rhythms II, 1947                                 ...

...You'd like to go there someday When they've put up the gun towers To keep the hippies away. So said Half Man Half Biscuit...

Back to the clothing related songs. There have been a load of helpful suggestions, far more than I'll get around to posting- Vicar In...

RIP Bobby Womack.

I'm interrupting the run of clothes themed posts today but, don't worry,  they'll be back. The Slits second album, 1981's ...

Rockabilly as a genre is particularly clothes obsessed and I've posted a number of rockabilly songs celebrating pink pedal pushers, c...

                                           A pair of Adidas Kopenhagen (from the much sought after City range) Today we turn our attent...

Clothing in song titles part three: recommended today by C from the wonderful Sun Dried Sparrows. This red pullover would look pretty goo...

There are more than a few echoes of Bizarre Love Triangle era New Order in this Black Merlin track, celebrating the denim jacket. It...

Drumming my fingers near the keyboard it occurred to me that following Joe Strummer's Cholo Vest yesterday we could have a week of p...

Joe Strummer's Earthquake Weather had an excellent single- Island Hopping- as good as any of his solo stuff. The 12" came with t...

Wake up, Sunday morning, the sun should be out over most of the UK, and reach for a lovely, blissed out piece of terrace bar Balearica fr...

African Head Charge have been putting out records since the early 80s, mainly through Adrian Sherwood's On U Sound. Their sound takes...

Yes, I do. I got in from work last night with no firm idea what today's post was going to be. A few half formed ideas were at the ba...

You've got to hold or give But do it at the right time You can be slow or fast But you must get to the line They'll always hat...

A humdinger of a Weatherall remix that appeared on a very pricey Horrors vinyl box set from 2012 for Thursday. The drum machine wheezes a...

This Happy Mondays performance of Performance on Tony Wilson's late 80s, late night Granada tv show The Other Side Of Midnight is jawd...

Do you want a download of the Andrew Weatherall remix of Julian Cope's fictional 1989 baggy band Dayglo Maradona? For free? (the 1...

We got back from camping tired but largely dry having had a cracking weekend in the Ulverston area, no wifi, no signal. My hay fever went...

We are camping in the Lakes tonight, for child number two our daughter ET. It is her eleventh birthday. Somehow we have managed to combin...