I’ll be first to admit I’ve never heard of the long-forgotten California power trio Parish Hall. Until now. (more…)

Here’s a slice of vintage funk from the streets of the motor city. Except it’s not. D/Troit are an all-white funk revival outfit from… Copenhagen.

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Teenage Kicks seems a long way from this fingerpicked acoustic instrumental – but it was the original inspiration for young Irish guitarist Cian Nugent.

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Billy Nomates teams up with Hugh Cornwell of her late father’s favourite band The Stranglers, on the song Dark Horse Friend.

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The Doors perfectly captured the mood of those last days of sunshine before the days get shorter and the leaves start to turn and fall.  (more…)

I was in Marseille over the weekend and that’s where I first heard La Fonky Family for the first time late one evening in a bar du vin.

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Here’s another tune from Long March Through The Jazz Age, the forthcoming final album by The Saints.

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A sad day indeed: this is the first song I heard by Blancmange – and now stands now as a poignant elegy for Stephen Luscombe.

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The Monkees’ TV show was one of the first things I ever saw when my family moved briefly back to England from Germany in 1967.

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I always thought of Scott Walker and his earlier role in The Walker Brothers as very different beasts. But by 1978 they had merged.

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