Right then- midday today and we're off, hitting the road and driving to The Jura, that bit of France just above Switzerland, eleven n...

Andrew Weatherall has been back on the decks and the mic at NTS radio with the July edition of Music's Not For Everyone- this one inc...

We had to run around in the car yesterday doing odds and ends pre-France holiday and rifling through the cd compartment I found The Jesus...

This is the new single by The Libertines. Woah, come back, it's much better than it has any right to be... Cutting the pace to a ...

I was flicking through the random music TV channel again- you can tell I'm off work- and out of nowhere this came on... Doctorin...

There's something about 1990 at the minute- I don't know if it's a twenty five year rule (like the official release of parlia...

Yes, yawn, repetitve but here's another hour long Andrew Weatherall mix, this time for Crack Magazine. Starts off weird, goes chuggy,...

Another Clash sampling song to start the week, following last week's threesome and  also suggested by Drew. This  time it is from...

Manuel Gottsching's E2 E4 is one of the building blocks of modern electronic music, a minimalist hour long piece of musical hypnosis ...

I just discovered this. Out Cold are the side project of Cherry Ghost's Simon Aldred. This belting Hardway Bros remix from 2013 has a...

Today is the first day of my summer holidays- school finished yesterday and now seven weeks off beckons, with a fortnight in France comin...

Another Clash sampling delight, possibly the pick of the bunch, is M.I.A.'s masterpiece Paper Planes. Producer Diplo sampled Mick Jon...

Yesterday's post- Garbage sampling The Clash- led me to thinking about who else has sampled The Only Band That Matters, which immedia...

I was flicking through the music channels on the telly the other day, the free ones that come as standard with our box, and on one of the...

Andrew Weatherall's new folk influenced record label Moine Dubh is open for business. The vinyl-only subscription cost is £50. This ...

The new Chemical Brothers album (Born In The Echoes) is out today and being praised as a return to form. This single, Go, came out at the...

Today I am cycling from Manchester to Blackpool, an organised annual event. Fifty five miles starting from Old Trafford and then heading ...

Warm washes and waves of synth are all over this, appropriately titled Coastal from Hull's Mono Life, released just under a year ago....

Back in January 2010 when I was only a few posts into the blogging game I posted this song by Rowland S Howard. He died of liver cancer j...

In amongst his guest star filled solo albums and Hollywood soundtrack works there's a David Holmes album which I come back to more th...