The last day of August is always depressing- the end of summer, end of school holidays, changing seasons, nights drawing in, all that st...

                                                       The Mirror, 12th March 1932 Sleeping Woman By A Mirror, 1932 We had a f...

Back in 2015 Lonelady released an album of skeletal funk, inspired by the dead zones around the city centre and partly recorded under the...

Radio 6 spent a day celebrating 30 years since the summer of love and dance culture earlier this week. You can catch some of it here whe...

I have long held a dislike of Simple Minds, since the 1980s now I come to think of it. I think this is based on the bombastic, U2-lite ma...

This song from Mogwai came out back in June, from a soundtrack they've done for a sci fi film called Kin. The full soundtrack is out ...

There's an interesting read here about one of the most sampled sounds, a laugh that found its way onto records by (but not only) Der...

Newly out on vinyl is this four track ep from Timothy J Fairplay called DX Marks The Spot. The title track rides in on a massive kick dru...

I heard St Etienne's You're In A Bad Way on the radio recently and was reminded what a good song it is, a perfect early 90s ver...

It's easy to feel dismayed about the state of things in 2018- the ongoing self-destructive impulse of Brexit; the Conservative Party ...

The latest Music's Not For Everyone has arrived, Andrew Weatherall's monthly exploration of 'yesterday's and tomorrow...

I found out recently that Will Sergeant, the only man to have been an ever present member of Echo And The Bunnymen, has had a fairly rece...

Joe Strummer's recordings outside The Clash, especially those in his so-called Wilderness Years, are a mess, scattered across various...

I wouldn't necessarily consider myself an expert but I have a copy of this album and I'm fairly sure it is one of the best, if no...

Madonna turns 60 today so here's happy birthday to her. I've written before about Madonna, about the turn of the 90s Madonna wher...

Here's the A-side of the forthcoming Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh 12", a piece of heavy dub with a bassline that reverberate...

One of my most played 12" singles from last year was Morning Velvet Sky by Gulp, a Cardiff based group comprising Guto (from Super F...

Back in the day (the late 80s day specifically) getting into Lou Reed's solo career was a dangerous game. Transformer was the obvious...

This is another pop gem from the Factory Records back catalogue, a 1984 single from Life. Andy Robinson was New Order's guitar techni...

A Certain Ratio are putting out a compilation album in October which by the looks of it mirrors their current live set, opening with Do T...