Kim Gordon unveils the title track of her forthcoming third album, along with a striking monochrome video for a minimalist masterpiece.

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Field Music have come up with an ingenious solution to the parlous financial state of the music biz – they’ve become a Doors tribute band.

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Dr Hook and the Medicine Show paid tribute to the witch queen of New Orleans on a song by Shel Silverstein on their debut album.

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The Dead Kennedys made an indelible mark on punk rock with their debut single California Über Alles in the summer of 1979.

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Country Joe McDonald didn’t play country music but he did make a mark with his protest songs drenched in psychedelia.

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Los Ángeles Negros emerged in Chile in the late 1960s playing a blend of bolero, psychedelic funk and rock guitar. This was their debut single.

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Ella Fitzgerald popularised Irving Berlin’s song Get Thee Behind Me Satan nearly 25 years after it first appeared in a Hollywood movie.

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The Loft defined the mellow indie-pop Dunedin sound with their 1984 debut single Why Does The Rain – and prompty broke up.

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The death of Wes McGhee seems to have passed virtually unnoticed, even among the music community. Which is a big shame.

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It took me a while to work out which of David Boring and Jenny Rotten is the band name and which is the song title but I’ve worked it out now.

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