I’ve long been a fan of the prolific MC Taylor, who goes by the stage name of Hiss Golden Messenger. This is his latest song, In The Middle Of It.

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Sharon Van Etten turns her hand to children’s songs with a tune for the US television show Yo Gabba GabbaLand!

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Lindisfarne – The Exchange 1856, North Shields – Live Review

Scattered Purgatory come from Taiwan and make music that lies somewhere between doom metal and ambient electronica. (more…)

Last night, at the last minute, I managed to blag tickets to see Lindisfarne – a band I thought had broken up decades ago.

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Annie Clark, aka St Vincent, teams up with Beck and musician friends to cover the INXS classic Never Tear Us Apart.

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Loser is one of those freak hits that captured the zeitgeist, launched a career and defined an entire music style. And it was all an accident.

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Three years ago today we lost Terry Hall, a songwriting genius who captured today’s world 45 years ago – a dangerous place, teetering on the brink of war.

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Greg Brown, co-founder and lead guitarist of Californian geek-rock legends Cake, has died at the age of only 56.

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Allow me to introduce you to Carlos Alberto Cázares Valenzuela, aka ‘El Solovino’ (The Uninvited). He’s 20 years old, he’s Mexican, and he loves Joy Division.

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