Joy Division yesterday, New Order today. New Order in the 1980s were as good as it got, a pioneering, chaotic, independent, wilful, sullen a...

There was a furore in Manchester recently when this gable end mural of Ian Curtis was painted over. The mural (by artist Akse) is/ was on Po...

Bank holiday Monday at the end of August always feels like a bit of a last gasp affair, the last gasp of summer before September strikes wit...

A bit of a diversion from my Sunday mix series of (roughly) thirty minute mixes of tracks and songs by a single artist- today's mix is t...

Without wanting to delve too deeply into the box marked 'British children's TV of the 1960s and 70s nostalgia' today's theme...

One of the summer's best singles has been Unloved's Turn Of The Screw , an urgent, driving piece of 60s psyche that flips its middle...

French born, London based musician Pascal Bideau releases his music as Akusmi. His new album, Fleeting Future, arrived in my inbox promising...

We went to the cinema last week, the first time we'd been since pre- Covid. There's nothing quite like sitting in the dark and seein...

Tak Tent is an internet radio station broadcasting out of Scotland. Last year The Wire magazine included them in a round up of radio station...

Another very welcome guest post from Dr. Rob, live and direct from Ban Ban Ton Ton / Japan.  Colin Angus, of The Shamen, charted Ron Trent`s...

Today would have been Joe Strummer's 70th birthday had he lived. In way of a tribute and celebration of the man, his music and this even...

Back in 2020 Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh's Woodleigh Research Facility had a year long series of releases, an EP a month. The third...

These owl bird scarers don't work. The pigeons realise that they're inanimate and no threat and stroll around doing whatever they pl...

Recently I've stopped reading the news (or listening to or watching it). It's just too grim. We are stuck in the middle of the tablo...

This cutting from the NME in 1990 came up on social media a few days ago, fifteen song recommendations from three DJs- Danny Rampling, Terry...

This came my way last week, a new release on Glasgow's 12th Isle label from Bruxula- an echo- drenched guitar, lovely descending basslin...

Eleven minutes of early 90s guitar wrangling from Ride, Mark Gardener and Andy Bell twisting their guitars and FX pedals into all kinds of s...

  A Man Called Adam have been making wide eyed, chilled out dance music/ electronic pop since their first single in 1988 and their debut alb...

A short hop back to last Sunday's post with a song that really could have featured on the half hour mix of The Charlatans that I put tog...

Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs have a very good sideline outside Saint Etienne, putting together themed compilation albums for Ace Records. Ofte...