Ryuichi Sakamoto died earlier this week aged seventy- one. He was a member of legendary Japanese group Yellow Magic Orchestra and a master i...

Today would have been Andrew Weatherall's 60th birthday. His absence is felt very strongly among his family and friends and in the corne...

We spent a few days over the weekend up in the western Lake District, on the Cumbrian coast. This is a world away (if only twenty miles) fro...

If you want some slow motion machine music, acid tinged, widescreen emotive techno on a Tuesday morning in early April- and why wouldn't...

James Holden's new album, Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities, came out last Friday. I've not heard it in ...

In 1987 a friend made me a compilation tape which included two songs by Mancunian band A Certain Ratio- Shack Up and Do The Du. I've bee...

Husker Du, live in 1985 at the Camden Palace . Fifty- seven minutes of melody, feedback and speed, verse/ chorus songs shredded and sandblas...

This is new from Edinburgh's Eyes Of Others, a one man outfit making music he describes as 'post- pub couldn't get tin the club...

The recent Unloved album, Polychrome is a succinct addition to last year's The Pink Album, the murky, moody girl group/ Wrecking Crew/ S...

As well as my ambient/ cosmische gig on Friday night I spent much of Sunday in two different venues enjoying DJ sets by Daniel Avery. The fi...

Friday night in Cheetham Hill, just north of Manchester city centre with Strangeways prison dominating the after dark skyline, is a part of ...

Out last Friday and the title track from his album The Strand Cinema this is Phil Keiran's latest release- a tribute to an art deco cine...

We all love a good cover version don't we? The reconstructing of a familiar song in a new form, the buzz of hearing someone do a song di...

Last month The Charlatans travelled across the USA with Ride playing a tour of double headers, each band taking it in turns to headline. Whi...

This is the third of a run of posts featuring the music of Luke Vibert, courtesy of reader Spencer sending me a song each week for me to wri...

Monday's posting of Saturday's Angels by If? and the mention of the Lionrock remix of that song clearly worked some kind of magic on...

This was supposed to publish this morning as usual but I messed up the post settings so it's late- but better late than never. This trac...

I was watching the latest episodes of the Guy Garvey: From The Vaults series (on Sky Arts, we get it as part of our Freeview package- I'...

We had a day out to the coast yesterday, driving to Thurstaston beach (above) and then on to West Kirkby on the Wirral peninsula. Just a cha...

I think I've said before that while Sandinista! may not be the greatest Clash album, it is their most adventurous, their most inventive ...