Singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, librettist, novelist, screenplay writer, poet, actor. Is there nothing Nick Cave ca...

This is basically a tweaked repost from March 2014. I featured this song in my 20 songs to take to my grave series. Its worthy of another...

Plentyn by 9Bach Nine in Welsh is nau, pronounced 'nye'. Bach is pronounced in much the same way as the German composers. Howeve...

It's dawned on me that this series has been somewhat female dominated up to now. Nowt wrong with that per se (just ask Dirk), but I th...

A special bonus post today to mark Keeping It Peel Day. As you know, our good friend Webbie started this back in 2010. Last year, he called ...

There's no doubt the Stax label produced some astonishingly good music during its peak period in the sixties. Its biggest star was Oti...

Back in June, Adam wrote the following about Dinosaur Jr.'s definitive moment Freak Scene : "J Mascis’ guitar sound is brilliant...

All I Wanna Do by The School Some of you will know that Brian over at the magnificent Linear Tracking Lives is a big fan of The School. ...

Homosapien by Pete Shelley 7" Bought from: Kelly's Price paid: £3 A tad pricey? Hmm, maybe, but it's in decent nick and abov...

Following on from last week's post which you may have missed , two more Kate Bush covers this week. Way, way back in time (like the mi...