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Red Snapper have an exciting and busy 2025 ahead of them. The band Ali Friend and Rich Thair started with David Ayres in 1993 celebrate the ...

As has been noted elsewhere the roll call of death has been awful recently, departures of the great and the good on an almost daily basis- R...

Today marks post number six thousand at Bagging Area, which is a big number which ever way you slice it. To mark this here's something n...

While searching through my music folders and files recently I was struck by the number of songs I had that have the word 'dream' or ...

In 1981 the film Escape From New York depicted a nightmare dystopia where Manhattan had been turned into a maximum security prison for the U...

I've been excited about this EP for some time and it's finally out today. Hugo Nicolson is the man who learnt his trade engineering ...

Andy Bell's new solo album Pinball Wanderer, his third in recent years, comes out tomorrow. It's been trailed by his cosmische cover...

This was released while we were in Belfast last week, a new track by Belfast resident and DJ/ producer/ musician/ composer Phil Kieran in hi...

Factory Floor are back, expanded to a three piece, the core duo of Gabe Gurnsey and Nic Colk Void joined by Joe Ward and recording with New ...

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about Lou Reed's solo albums , from his self- titled debut in 1972 through to New York in 1989 and the me...

We had two days and nights in Belfast last week, flying out very early Wednesday morning and returning Friday midday. I'd never been bef...

1968 film Bullitt is a classic of its kind, a late 60s crime/ detective thriller with a realistic feel, shot almost entirely on location, wi...

Friday's improvisational jazz comes from Bill Frisell, an album from 2004 called Unspeakable which used electronica and samples as a jum...

My dive back into Bob Dylan's back catalogue took me into the triple CD release The Bootleg Series Volumes 1- 3 (Rare and Unreleased) 19...

A couple of weeks ago a friend tipped me off to this single, Everyday , by Celeste, released in January and built around a very recognisable...

Matt Gunn's latest EP, a three track wonder called Nowhere, came out last Friday. Matt said that while recording it he just 'let all...

The picture above shows Two Lone Weatherdolls. Except they're not alone, they're together, along with a replica of a Lewis chessman ...

Mercury Rev had a brief flurry of fame/ renown in 1989- 1991, often in conjunction with fellow travellers The Flaming Lips. In 1993 founder ...

Performance came out in 1970, the year of my birth, a druggy, graphic, psyched out crime thriller. I'm not suggesting my birth and the f...

In May 2010 Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston started a club night at The Drop in Stoke Newington,  a Thursday night in a small, 140 capac...