2023
Austrian supergroup My Pretty Clementine put Vienna back on the musical map for the first time in a couple of centuries.
The Bug Club are a lo-fi garage pop group from Wales and their latest single is this insanely catchy lo-fi anthem, Out In The Streets.
The Rose City Band are the country-flavoured side project of Wooden Shjips duo Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada. This druggy animated road video certainly captures the woozy mood of their laid-back country-fried boogie.
A soothing blend of punk, funk and country seasoned with soul and reggae, and tributes to the month’s dead – Gordon Lightfoot, Tina Turner, Linda Lewis and Andy Rourke of The Smiths.
Not sure if the term Aussie’n’Western is a thing, but if it is then The Paper Kites are a prime example.
Tina Turner’s career might never have got started if a backing singer had not failed to turn up for a recording session of this song in 1960.
PJ Harvey returns with the first taste of her first solo album for seven years – a soothing and sinister ballad about birds… and Elvis.
I never much liked Blur. In the Britpop wars I was Team Oasis. I still am, at least where their first album is concerned.
Here are The Hives again, returning to the fray in their forties with a new song that shows they’ve lost none of their spark after 26 years together.