Before I opted to go with one of my pointless playlists jokes and start the month the same artist who finished the last playlist, this was going to be the first track on this month’s...

Ah, continuity… As one month ends, another begins, and as we were at the end of one, so we are at the start of the next.

'B-sides, rarities, non-album tracks, alternate versions - the tracks that bands and labels forgot, or mysteriously tucked away in a corner, out of view.'

It seems appropriate to close off a month of tracks by those who have fallen by the wayside with perhaps the ultimate lost artist, someone about whom it was once said that he barely existed...

No Kim no deal, 1/10, 2/10, trampling all over their legacy: if you’re even vaguely a fan of the Pixies you’ll be familiar with the kind of spoiled stuck-up comments, pointlessly bitter reviews, and level...

At a time when most people were discovering James through Sit Down, I was not the exception to the rule. There they were, Easter holidays 1991, on Top of the Pops, looking and sounding like...

The Charlatans (or Charlatans UK if you’re reading this in the United States) are one of indie rock’s great survival stories. Formed in the late 80s, they started out pretty baggy, and have constantly re-invented...

I’m sorry, Bluetones, I really am. From barely controlled excitement at best ever debut album by a British band in my lifetime Expecting to Fly via a confused relationship with its successor Return to the...

What is it with advertisers and their ability to take a perfectly decent song and ram it down your earholes continually for months, years on end, until you get to the point where you just...

We all have songs that we can relate to very specific events, moods or people. Who among us can think of D:Ream without being reminded of the optimism of 1997? But of so much more...

As word gets round that The Stone Roses are to split again, it takes me back to when The Stone Roses was regularly topping bestest album of all time polls in the NME and elsewhere,...

First thing to say about The Cure: I’m not really a fan.

As a huge fan of Empathy Test’s debut EP Losing Touch, released in February this year, I was pretty excited to hear the news this week that the duo had signed to...

Although I didn’t get round to writing a full review of it, Inform - Educate - Entertain was this writer’s album of the year for 2013, and Public Service Broadcasting made my

Free download: Kramies - The Folklore Sessions