Today's musical accompaniment is from another Ghost Box album that I've been playing recently, Outward Journeys by The Belbury Ci...

I found this track at the weekend (while looking for the Intastella one) and it's struck a deep chord with me over the last few days....

London Calling side three- the shortest of the four sides of vinyl that make up London Calling, only four songs compared to five on each ...

In 2002 Drexciya released Grava 4, yet another inventive and adventurous album from the Detroit duo. Sparse electro, spacey techno and th...

It was sad to read of the death of Little Anthony this weekend. Anthony was a member of Intastella, the group's dancer (he's pict...

It's December tomorrow and, unavoidably, the start of advent. Half Man Half Biscuit have a line for most occasions and today's is...

London Calling side two, pick the arm up, place the needle carefully on the outer ring, let it find the groove, a little static, and then...

One of my favourite 12" releases of 2018 was Craig Bratley's 99.9%, which came with an Andrew Weatherall remix and a gorgeous pi...

It's so dark at the moment- dark in the mornings, dark from the late afternoon and murky throughout the day- that some musical sunshi...

In three weeks time, 14th December to be exact, London Calling will hit forty. My copy (pictured above) was purchased second hand at some...

Based on two posts by The Swede I started to check out the back catalogue of Swedish band Kungens M ä n, six middle aged men from Stockho...

Two random and unconnected pieces of Twentieth century pop culture for Sunday. The picture is a photograph/mixed media collage by Man Ray...

Today is our eldest's 21st birthday. Isaac was born on 23rd November 1998 and, as some of you will know, from that point on has had a...

This is out today, new from Richard Fearless, an eight track album under his own name. If the title track is anything to go by it promise...

In 1990 the members of Big Audio Dynamite that weren't Mick Jones left the group. Mick ventured on with a new group of recruits, rena...

A new release from the artist known as  ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ, the Wingdings alias of Kieran Hebden/Four Tet. Unpronounceable  in a w...

In the 1980s Paul Weller's decision to keep moving and jump several steps ahead of where his audience were (and his band) led to The ...

Back in 2013 some tapes resurfaced from the depths of the Cold War, music commissioned by the East German state and created by the compos...

Toy, Brighton based psych indie-rock five- piece, have a new album out soon, a selection of cover versions including their take on the Pe...

There's an article about 808 State in the latest issue of Electronic Sound which opens with a paragraph about the enduring appeal of ...