If you had challenged AI to come up with a “classic” Eurovision song it might well have come up with last Bulgaria’s winner, Bangaranga by Dara.

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This is my new favourite duet. Which is quite something considering I’m not a fan of Aussie punksters Amyl & The Sniffers.

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I’m not sure what to make of The Veils. On the one hand they sound like a lot of stuff I love. On this track that stuff is The Bad Seeds.

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The Allman Brothers hit their instrumental peak with In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, recorded for their 1971 album Live At Fillmore East.

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Free were in the vanguard of the blues-rock revolution that chnged the face of British music in the late 1960s.

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The Stones return, more than 60 years after their arrival, with an irresistible slice of vintage rock’n’roll.

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This is my favourite track on my favourite live album, recorded by The Velvet Underground in 1969 at a San Francisco club called The Matrix.

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Anika has carved out a niche as a kind of modern-day Nico, bringing glacial cool to her dub-infused electro music.

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Scottish funkster Jesse Rae might not have made a name for himself but he did write the huge hit Inside Out for Odyssey.

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Bodega are the archetypal hipster band. They’re like an updated version of The Strokes, but without the privilege and PR overkill.

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