As you probably know Johnny Marr's autobiography, Set The Boy Free, came out recently. I was in a shop and had just picked it up when...

Back in 2013 I wrote about Towers, the second album from one man band Baltic Fleet. The one man is Paul Fleming, former touring keyboardi...

Just trying to catch up with some stuff people have recommended in various places and I come across the new one from A Tribe Called Quest...

Friday- and thank fuck for that. It's been a long and trying week. I've got my computer back and it seems to have survived the ex...

Let's keep dancing but today with a tinge of sadness. It was announced on Monday that David Mancuso has died aged 72. Mancuso is some...

Looks like Jerry missed the message about wearing red for the photo shoot. Songs to raise the spirits and raise the roof after a week/y...

I'm entering week four without my computer. No downloads I'm afraid but the words and the non-downloadable music continues. The...

I got an email on Friday, unsolicited music submission, from a man called Mark. The tone of the email kept me reading as did the sentence...

I've got more and more out of The Xx as time has gone on. At first I thought they were impressive but easier to admire than to love. ...

I don't know about you but I could do with a lie down in a darkened room for a little while. The KLF's Chill Out, forty four ...

Some photos I took at the Somme and around Ypres this summer, one hundred years on from the Battle of the Somme. Ninety eight yea...

'Back in the day Even circles were squares'. Another lost piece from the Joe Strummer jigsaw, Generations was recorded in a d...

Difficult to know exactly what to say after yesterday's news that other people haven't already expressed elsewhere. Right wing de...

Straight to hell... Swastika eyes... Heaven help us all...

I remember clearly the first time I heard David Byrne and Brian Eno's 1981 album My Life In the Bush of Ghosts. This would be circa 1...

Given the choice between Clinton and Trump, there is no real choice at all. And obviously we don't get a choice, we just watch as the...

I can't decide if it's heartening or disappointing that a group as critically adored as A Certain Ratio can pull ab...

My ears have been very much attuned to techno recently, especially the futuristic sounds coming out of Detroit between 1987 and 1989. The...

Would you like a blast of something loud to start your weekend? Yes? Good. Cabbage come from Mossley, eight miles to the east of Manchest...

In the second hand record shop the other day I picked up a 12" of Lundi Bleu by The Times. The Times was Ed Ball's (note NOT Ed ...