Sometimes when you get a tweet out of the blue from someone you don’t know it’s auto-generated hip-hop spam, sometimes it’s a tweet about a song you were already kind enough to RT to the...

Eternally Dizzy are a new band out of Columbus, Ohio, consisting of frontman Andre’ Vanderpool, Joe Camerlengo on bass and Jeremy Skeen hammering away pretty hard on drums. And that is pretty much all I...

File under “hotly anticipated”. Jungle’s self-titled debut album is out next week, on XL recordings. In the meantime, they’ve put out this week’s funnest, most joyous video to accompany Time. Featuring two middle-aged heroes strutting...

After the release of Rent I Pay last month, Spoon have released another new track from forthcoming album They Want My Soul. Like the best Spoon tracks, Do You gets its work done with the...

With their performance of Red Eyes on Monday, The War on Drugs stole the mantle of Letterman performance that everyone is raving about, and now look to be heading into to straight head-to-head with Future...

And still the new music keeps on coming… This one ought to take us through the next few months, maybe up to the end of the year even, depending on how post-happy I get.

It feels like a great time to have more than a passing interesting in shoegazing, with a seemingly never-ending wave of new bands taking the old ‘gazer template and tweaking it with their own styles....

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy (and also family Tweedy’s Jeff Tweedy) has released a video for one of the tracks from the forthcoming album Sukierae. Originally planned as a solo project, Tweedy now comprises Jeff and his...

The former Geneva singer with the angelic voice will release his debut solo album, Ruled by Dreams, in October.

Jamie first appeared on DGC Rarities, Vol 1, a Geffen compilation of rare and unreleased tracks by the label’s artists. A paean to the band’s lawyer Jamie Young, it was scheduled to be Weezer’s first...

Originally appearing on Volume 6 of the legendary Volume series of indie compilations in April 1993 (and then on Sharks Patrol These Waters: The Best of Volume, Part II in May 1995), Fake ‘88 got...

The joy of Come To is all in that ringing dream-pop guitar sound. I don't know how, or why, but it does funny things to my brain.

A stunning post-punk / garage debut EP that you simply have to listen to. Heart Full of Beef is equal parts lyrical, abrasive, dark and beautiful.

Having been reared on 1962-1966 (aka The Red Album), and 1967-1970 (aka The Red Album), I took the path of least resistance and started my own Beatles album collection with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club...

Word is that Scorsese’s preferred cut for The Wolf of Wall Street is an hour longer than the theatrical release. That’s one whole hour on top of a film that’s already touching three hours. Quentin...

The sun came out and I thought it would be a good time to kick off a new project…

I think I’ve explained the demise of The House of Love in enough detail in previous posts (nutshell: drugs, egos, bust-ups and bus stops), but it’s always worth reminding yourself that they were as good...

Some songs, no matter how good, are just destined for hidden track status. Brilliant though they are, catchy though they may be, something about them means they don’t quite work as album tracks, but leave...

This b-side to ‘Ghost Town_ - one of two stellar songs accompanying the number one single, the other being ‘Friday Night, Saturday Morning_ - was written by Specials guitarist Lynval Golding after...

You have to go all the way back to Gene's début single Be My Light, Be My Guide for today's selection. I Can't Help Myself first appeared as a b-side to that excellent single.