The new album by Chicago house and techno legend Ron Trent, What Do The Stars Say To You, is causing a bit of a stir and rightly so- it'...

Another Top Boy related post following yesterday's Fuck Buttons double bill. At the end of episode three, series one, Sully says to his ...

We've been watching Top Boy recently, all four series, back to back. Set in a fictional north London housing estate in Hackney called Su...

Out last year but new to me (via David Holmes playing it on the June edition of God's Waiting Room at NTS) is this vinyl only four trac...

Pontins at Prestatyn, North Wales, has hosted all sorts of weekenders over the years from soul weekenders in the 80s to Northern Soul and Mo...

Today's Saturday theme is one of the great Theme records, a song which turned spring 1988 upside down- a joyous, ecstatic, sampledelic s...

At the tail end of last year Sean Johnston released a cover of Willow's Song, the haunting, freaked out folk song from The Wicker Man, r...

I started bereavement counselling in April, a session a week for eight weeks. It came to an end yesterday with my final session. I didn’t go...

There are a slew of interesting and musically wide ranging compilation albums hitting the shelves at the moment, both digital and physical r...

I found an old mp3 player recently- not even an iPod but one produced by Creative- and wondered if it still worked. Charged it up, had a pok...

Al MacKenzie is one half of Field Of Dreams (along with Chris Kentish), a Birmingham based duo who make music and put on club nights. Al has...

It's easy to forget sometimes that the best and most influential band of the 90s weren't one of your Britpop suspects, not one of th...

Back in 1989 E.J. Robinson (otherwise known as Marcello Catalano, an Italian producer and studio and label boss) recorded an Italo- house ve...

I'm a big fan of Daniel Avery's ambient/ industrial techno. His run of albums from Song For Alpha in 2018 to Illusion Of Time (with ...

Not too far from yesterday's Ministry and Adrian Sherwood post, today's songs come from Killing Joke and their 1984 single Eighties ...

When I worked at HMV in the early 90s the shop's assistant manager and another colleague were both massive fans of Ministry, the America...

Today is my daughter Eliza's nineteenth birthday. She'll be spending it in Liverpool where there's a week of partying going on, ...

Rude Audio made one of my favourite tunes/  EPs of 2021, the summer sounding skank- chug of Railton Ruckus. They've now returned to do t...

Peaking Lights, husband/ wife duo from the US (variously San Francisco, Wisconsin, Los Angeles but now resident in Amsterdam according to Wi...

Saturday's theme today comes from the former bassist of Magazine and one time Bad Seed, Barry Adamson, a man whose solo back catalogue i...