Bagging Area

I was listening to Ride the other day, sparked off by an interview with them in The Guardian recently (about their re-union) and a recent...

I finally bagged a vinyl copy of this Andrew Weatherall remix recently, two years after it first came out digitally. Seven minutes thirty...

This song continues the (unintentional) sun/clouds theme I've been riffing on here recently- Toy and Jane Weaver with an excellent sl...

The recent Moon Duo album- Shadow of the Sun- is getting to be a favourite of mine for this year. On vinyl it's an eight track album ...

Ctel posted this at Acid Ted last week. I have played it multiple times since. I don't know how much our readership overlaps so I tho...

This is a treat- an hour long mix by Timothy J Fairplay for Pinkman records, from the darker edge of the dancefloor. I can hear the sound...

In the middle of the last decade Two Lone Swordsmen moved from making high quality machine funk to adding live guitars and bass and diggi...

I'm not going to move on from this little Alex Chilton inspired run without mentioning Teenage Fanclub. When Bandwagonesque came out ...

There can't be many bigger fans of yesterday's postee Alex Chilton than Paul Westerberg. In fact, he even wrote a song called Ale...

This song by The Box Tops was a big hit in 1967. Written by Wayne Carson Thompson it's a perfect little 60s number, less than two min...

There will always be room in my life for at least two Soul II Soul records. Back To Life is where British soul met house music and went t...

Yesterday was quite eventful in its own way. I didn't get up early and go to queue up outside Piccadilly Records for Record Shop Day....

The last time I posted an Andrew Weatherall radio show for NTS it cost at least one of my readers a little money. Wallet out and bank det...

I found this graffiti on a door near Kidwelly castle last week. Excellent work I think you'll agree. This is some early Jamaican sk...

Another of my South Wales sunset photographs- it's amazing what you can do with a mobile phone isn't it? This was the stuff of sc...

Browsing one of the shelves holding cds the other night I pulled out the only two I own by New York's Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The first was ...

I heard a new song from Red Snapper on the radio last week, on 6 music. I didn't even know Red Snapper were still going but I always ...

I read Kim Gordon's memoir Girl In A Band last week and very good it was too. The book divides into three main parts: her upbringing ...

The National Grid have recently announced a new design of electricity pylon, following a competition- a T shaped one, like almost every o...

There's all this politics in the air at the moment- a lot of unpleasant right wing posturing going on. Let Alabama 3 soundtrack your...