This song came to me a week ago via a compilation cd a friend's husband made for me. He's a native of Sheffield and opened with a...

I took these photos of cranes on Saturday night after seeing ACR at Gorilla. This is the site of the old BBC building on Oxford Road u...

An extended version of Grace Jones' 1981 single is a good way to start the day even if this steamy, sweltering track seems most inap...

Tuesday brings a pair of Adrian Sherwood mixes for your listening pleasure. The first is his dub mix of Monkey Mafia's after hours cla...

This is the fourth time in as many years I've seen A Certain Ratio in the run up to Christmas. They signed to Mute last year an...

Nicolas Roeg has died aged 90. The films he made in the 1970s and 80s were the type of films you read references to and in those days w...

Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation turned 30 this year, a double album that was some kind of apex of US indie-punk. I tested it out this...

The series that I am not calling Foodstuff Friday moves on to wine. With two reggae posts earlier this week it makes sense to start with ...

I was sifting through a box of cds found on top of a cupboard recently- various bits of decorating and reorganising have been taking plac...

Twenty-nine years ago tonight The Stone Roses appeared on BBC2's The Late Show. There I was, finger poised over the Play and Record b...

More 70s reggae today this time from the man Bob Marley called The Crown Prince of Reggae, Dennis Brown. Stop Your Fussing And Fighting w...

This 1975 single by Susan Cadogan is one of those songs that immediately enriches my life when I hear it, coming from that sweet spot in ...

Dark And Long is the still superb sounding dub-techno entry point to Underworld's dubnobasswithmyheadman album. The 1994 single versi...

In 2015 Richard Norris and Dave Ball reunited as The Grid and recorded using the Moog Soundlab at the University of Surrey. They have ju...

Digging through a stack of records that need filing the other night, mainly made up of ones bought this year and last, I found the late...

I'm launching into what may be an ill conceived Friday series here at Bagging Area. Last Friday I posted several songs about honey- s...

Back to 1990 today and a hands in the air piano rave moment from N-Joi. The vocal track on the original version of the song was made up o...

Back at the start of the decade I downloaded this song from a music blog (Davy H's now defunct The Ghost Of Electricity). Another...

Stan Lee, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief and creator of hundreds of characters including Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The X Men, Black...

I slept on Fontan's album last year for some reason, not really appreciating its charms. I reached for it recently and then played it...