This came up in my downloads folder while I was looking for something else and it made me wonder why I haven't posted it before- and the...

I read Mike Joyce's autobiography The Drums on holiday- it was a quick read, I did much of it on the flight to Malaga and finished it by...

I've been revisiting Alan Moore's Swamp Thing over the last few months. Between 1984 and 1987 Moore took over as the writer on the D...

Another Monday, another Four Tet post- I come back to Kieran Hebden's music repeatedly at the moment and he keeps dropping new releases ...

On Friday news arrived of the death of William Orbit. He died on the 23rd of July aged 69 and leaves behind him a rich, wild and varied back...

A series for Saturdays in 2026 inspired by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's set of cards, Oblique Strategies (Over One Hundred Worthwhile D...

Time for my periodic posting of songs by The High, a late 80s/ early 90s Manchester band who were swept along on the wave of record company ...

The Early Years have released their third album in twenty years- Modern Moonlight. Their debut came out in 2006 and was followed by II in 20...

This came out last week, a limited edition C60 cassette featuring the music of Matt Gunn, an hour of electronic adventuring titled Sound Tra...

The return of Beastie Boy Mike D is along with the return of the Durutti Column a massive musical highlight of 2026, both completely unexpec...

Spanish Monday long song or   Canción larga del lunes en español (I hope that's correct, Google Translate can't always be relied upo...

Some songs for August on the 2nd day of the month. August is high summer in the UK, the month of summer holidays, those endless days as chil...

A series for Saturdays in 2026 inspired by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's set of cards, Oblique Strategies (Over One Hundred Worthwhile D...

Out today- a new EP by Birds Of Pandaemonium called On Islands with an album on Sprechen to follow. On Islands is a dream- a swooning psyche...

Y viva Espana! We're off to Spain today for a few days, going to Granada, Nerja and Malaga. There are lots of songs with Spain or Spanis...

Dicky Continental is one of Rich Thair's alter egos, a one man project away from his main band Red Snapper and Red Snapper's offshoo...

In the 2010s gentrification pushed Michael Smith, his partner and their infant son out of London and down to the south coast, the family set...

Coyote return with a new EP and more wisdom dispensed via well chosen vocal samples. Blue Bird is six minutes and forty four seconds of lai...

When they started out playing parties for their friends in abandoned churches and then rapidly became a proper band R.E.M. defined themselve...

A series for Saturdays in 2026 inspired by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's set of cards, Oblique Strategies (Over One Hundred Worthwhile D...