This is a rather marvellous gem from the vaults – Vivian Stanshall being interviewed by Toyah Wilcox on a long forgotten TV show back in 1982.

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Here’s a heavenly marriage of the glorious harmonies of The Congos and the madcap production genius of Lee Perry.

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Gnoomes are a husband-wife duo of Russian expats in Slovenia, playing a fusion of krautrock and psychedelia they have dubbed “Stargaze.”

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The Controllers enjoyed a brief moment in the first wave of LA punk bands, including this love song for an amputee.

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The Chi-Lites used this euphoric five-second earworm 33 years before it became the sample that launched the solo career of eyoncé Knowles.

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I’ve stayed in a lot of hotels. Some good, some bad. Some luxury escapes, some fleapits. But none could compete for all-round awfulness with The Walton Hotel in Nottingham.

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Summer’s here and what better way to enjoy the sunshine than by pressing play on my latest playlist? We’ve got a fair few Northern Soul stompers, some old classics from The Kinks, Steely Dan and 10cc, a little bit of country and reggae, and a couple of unlikely collabs like Robert Smith and Olivia Rodrigo and (even more unlikely) Jeremaine Jackson and Devo.

Bill Callahan turned away from his lo-fi smog persona on his 1998 album Knock Knock, and this heartbreaking tune.

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Tobi Legend stamped her mark on music history when her obscure demo recording Time Will Pass You By became a Northern Soul anthem.

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The Gun Club were one of the most interesting bands to emerge after the first wave of punk began to fragment and roots music began to infect the LA punk scene.

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