The sensational CMAT was the talk of Day One at Glastonbury 2025 with her superstar-making afternoon set on the Pyramid Stage.

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For a while in the early Seventies, just after Glam’s holy trinity of T. Rex, Slade and Sweet had peaked, Mott The Hoople were my favourite band.

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Baxter Dury returns to the sleazy obscenity-strewn neo-disco of Miami for a comic critique of Shoreditch hipsters in Return Of The Sharp Heads.

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The dusty desert drawl of Howe Gelb, matched to the twang of guitars and the shuffle of drums, is one of my favourite sounds.

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I love a new discovery. And the strangely named pôt-pot are exactly my cup of tea with their propulsive psychedelic krautrock.

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Chastity Belt and 764-Hero play the same song, recorded 27 years apart by the two bands from the Pacific North West. (more…)

Van Morrison returns with one of his best albums for decades, looking back on his life and career on Remembering Now.

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Kim Gordon re-records her 2024 song Bye Bye and re-tools it to feature all the words “cancelled” by Trump under his second presidency.

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The word genius gets bandied around rather too much when it comes to musicians. But few would dispute that Brian Wilson was a genius.

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Rick Derringer was one of those names that I heard a lot growing up, without ever being able to place him or recognise a particular song.

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