The Irwell again, above, photographed from the same bridge as yesterday but facing south rather than north. River Of Bass is the ope...

Some more rivers coming your way over the next few days I think. Yesterday's river was the Afon Llugwy in Betws-Y-Coed, North Wales,...

I haven't deliberately listened to any R.E.M. for ages. I hear them in passing but don't often make the effort to play their rec...

You know you're gonna be mine... I'm going to bounce you out of your bed on this Saturday morning with a perfect piece of ra...

Sometimes with a blog post the music comes first and the picture second and sometimes the picture comes first and the music follows.When...

There's been some discussion over the last couple of days at The Flightpath Estate (A Facebook group for Weatherall enthusiasts) abo...

Charlotte Gainsbourg has a new album, Rest, out on Friday. A few weeks ago this song came out, a brilliant piece of dreamy electro-pop, ...

Another long one today, a tad over an hour's worth of folky freakery for you. Back in September Andrew Weatherall guested on 6 Music...

If you fancy an hour's worth of highest quality machine music seamlessly mixed together by the hands of Richard Fearless then this B...

An online friend (Spencer) recommended an album to me recently and it's haunted and inspired me for much of the last week. 11, 000 D...

This is a new one from The Liminanas, a French duo whose stuff I've posted before- they did an excellent single last year with Hooky...

A last 1987 song for this week and I'm not even sure it's a very good one. Pop Will Eat Itself's Box Frenzy album was awash ...

In August 1987 The Sugarcubes released Birthday, an instant indie hit thanks to John Peel and the music press, a record so different and...

Let's stay in 1987, a year that has a bad reputation as being at the height of 80s excesses, but there is plenty of gold to be found....

Released the same year as yesterday's Shark Vegas song New Order put out two non-album singles in 1987, True Faith and Touched By Th...

That was a tough week just gone and probably one to come (for various reasons but y'know, onwards and upwards- we still have music t...

This. Desperate Man (Matthew Herbert Remix) Matthew Herbert's delicious remix of Kalabrese's Desperate Man, vocals by Khan, f...

The return of Ride and their position close to my stereo is something I definitely wasn't expecting this year. I wasn't too both...

I like this, yet another new thing for autumn. Steve Mason and Martin Duffy (Primal Scream's keyboard man) have joined together as A...