Right then, New Year's Eve, an over-rated excuse for an enforced piss up if ever there was one. But staying in watching Jools, waitin...

It happens at the end of every year- I get the Piccadilly Records end of year list booklet and end up buying something that I missed whic...

Johnny Marr and Billy Duffy were mates from Wythenshawe, south Manchester before either of them got famous. Billy, a few years older, sol...

Sometimes, at times like these, you need The Velvet Underground to help you get through. The third album always helps (except The murder...

Somehow, inexplicably, I left Timothy J Fairplay off my end of year list last week. Partly because I just forgot and partly because I tho...

More songs played by the boss. It won't help you digest your sprouts but it will clear out some of the fuzz between your ears.

50 pence! 50 pence!

Christmas Eve- where did that come from? Crept up slowly and suddenly it's the main event. A few years ago Johnny Marr gave this away...

I've posted this song almost every Christmas since the blog began and its definitely worth another go. Low's Just Like Christmas ...

Just before Christmas, bringing glad tidings to all, a new Weatherall remix. This time it's Justin Robertson's Deadstock 33s pro...

Joe Strummer died on 22nd December 2002 and I've got into the habit of marking it here. God only knows what he'd have made of the...

Ok, I give in. Here's a Christmas post. What was your office party like? I haven't posted any Billy Childish for ages and his t...

We went for a walk on Sunday, up the canal and round the water-park, across Chorlton Ees, stopping for a pint on Chorlton Green an...

Monday morning techno- the last Monday before Christmas techno too. Very festive. Carl Craig's 1995 album Landcruising is a Detroit...

I followed a link on Twitter the other night to Fact Magazine's 20 Best House And Techno Records of 2016 and started digging. I haven...

I saw a thing on social media recently which said 'nobody cares about your end of year review'. Possibly true. But it's a blo...

A new Jesus And Mary Chain single came out last week, the first in eighteen years it is claimed. This ignores All Things Must Pass which ...

The Vinyl Villain has been hosting a long running series where different contributors suggest a ten track Imaginary Compilation Album for...

A third song to go alongside West Bam and West India Company- I'll stop after this, it's getting a bit tenuous. The West Coast Po...

This is the tune I was looking for before getting distracted by West India Company, a 1990 offering from German DJ West Bam (Maximillian ...