A Tribe Called Quest's second album, The Low End Theory, just celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of its release. I don't know wher...

Ten minutes of squally, distorted, languid electric guitar while Lana Del Rey drives down the freeway in September 2018, 'fresh out of f...

Out of nowhere, after a run of albums which were always pretty good if a little tame, Saint Etienne have released what's sounding like o...

Back in 1985 Big Audio Dynamite released The Bottom Line, maybe their best song. Built around a stuttering bassline, a couple of vocal sampl...

More from David Holmes, this time a two hour mix played at sunset in Ibiza from July last year. All the Balearic soundtrack descriptions app...

If you're in the north west and haven't been already there's still time to go to Manchester's Central Reference Library to s...

Just when you needed something to pick you up, dust you down and send you into the weekend with a smile on your face and a bit of zest along...

Just under a year ago I wrote a post about the then new Cabaret Voltaire album Shadow Of One and only last week I found my burned CD of it i...

Over on the other side of the world from here, operating out of Auckland New Zealand, is Stinky Jim. He got in touch a few years ago saying ...

Something odd from Belgium for Tuesday, a modular soundscape from two Reinhards,Vanbergen and Roelands. Vanbergen has been here before on hi...

In 2014 Swiss dub merchants Dub Spencer and Trance Hill put out an album of recordings with the ghostly voice of William Burroughs laid on t...

Andrew Weatherall loved to give the Japanese market a few extras. His solo album A Pox On The Pioneers contained two extra tracks not availa...

Today we take our daughter Eliza to university in Liverpool, the same university I went to in 1988 and we're taking her to the halls of ...

Gnod, a Salford based collective who channel guitars and FX pedals through fearsome amplification hit a political peak with their 2017 album...

Back in 2019 Richard Fearless put out an album called Deep Rave Memory, a purist's vision of ambient techno recorded inside an actual me...

A compilation on Brighton's Higher Love Recordings came out earlier this month, a late summer celebration from the Balearic Ultras stabl...

A Certain Ratio have released three new EPs this year. The first, ACR:EPA, came out back in May and featured Wonderland, the last vocal perf...

I posted the Hardway Bros remix of Sparking Plugs by Deo'Jorge last week (the post is  here ) and at that point hadn't heard the Pri...

Heaton Park is all set up for Parklife, a two day festival across this weekend largely attended by people much younger than me. New Order to...

The new Saint Etienne song Pond House (released at the end of July ahead of an album called I've Been Trying To Tell You, out yesterday...