There's always something mildly disappointing, not to say a little depressing, about the end of August bank holiday. The weather is ...

Sean Johnston has been keeping the A Love From Outer Space flag flying in the face of the shutdown of venues and clubs since the middle ...

More Durutti Column, a band who have been soundtracking my life for the last few weeks. This song comes from LC, Vini's follow up to ...

Out today from Woodleigh Research Facility, the latest monthly emission from Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh. As there have been every m...

This came out back at the end of June and I've only really got around to it now but it's paying off now the nights are getting da...

Kelly Lee Owens new album is imminent (Inner Song, out on Friday). This song, a deep, drifting and droning piece of electronic music with...

When you disappear to a place like Anglesey for a couple of days it's easy to believe the issues that have swallowed us up this year ...

It would have been Joe Strummer's 68th birthday yesterday had he lived. The world has been a poorer place for his absence. He would h...

Doves returned in June after a lengthy absence and gave us a new song, Carousel, the latest instalment of their rainswept northern melanc...

I found this video clip a few days ago, Durutti Column playing in Manchester Cathedral in 1985. The song is Bordeaux Sequence, a beautifu...

Rival Consoles (known as Ryan Lee West in real life) has a new album out, Articulations, a follow up to 2018's Persona. The same man...

Glok's Dissident album was one of my favourites of last year. It has just been joined by a companion album, eleven remixes of songs f...

In the wake of my Kylie ICA for The Vinyl Villain reader Tom W suggested that I should have included the Brothers In Rhythm remix of Whe...

Today I offer you some music from the outskirts, from the fringes of the internet, musicians toiling away in bedrooms, backrooms and home...

Sketch For Summer is the opening song on 1980's The Return Of the Durutti Column album, a three minute introduction to the work of Vi...

This song seems perfectly placed to illustrate the flipside of this week's heatwave and the truly spectacular lightning displays we...

The heatwave continues and nothing you do to cool down works for very long. Music from West Germany in the 1970s might help. Silver Cloud...

Something else new today, the latest in a seemingly endless flow of new music. Lovely, rippling, hazy psychedelic guitar music, ideal for...

I don't know how many times I've mentioned A Certain Ratio here recently but they seem to be popping up with a welcome regularity...

Tony Wilson, later on Anthony H. Wilson, died on this day in 2007. His gravestone in Southern Cemetery, Chorlton- cum- Hardy, as pictured...