Summer songs don’t get much more summery than this trippy number by Jonathan Wilson, leader of the latterday Laurel Canyon revival.

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By far my highlight of Glastonbury was this performance by the Mary Wallopers – a virulently anti-capitalist anti-British bunch of folkies from the Irish border town of Dundalk.

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This is surely the first film of any kind – not just music videos – whose end credits include someone listed as a “balls volunteer.” You’ll find out why in the first few seconds.

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Allah-Las channel the ghost of Dick Dale in their update of the surf-rock sound half a century later. No surprise that the band come from LA and met while working at Amoeba Records on Sunset Boulevard.

SQÜRL: Meltdown Festival, London – Live Review

SQÜRL at the Royal Festival Hall was a gig with a difference: live music from 2023 accompanying Man Ray’s silent movies from 1923.

Arab Strap: EartH, London – Live Review

Arab Strap perform their 1998 album Philophobia’s songs of seedy sexual encounters and drunken disasters at EartH in Hackney.

The Corner is the standout track on Gold Panda’s latest album The Work – a smooth summer groove with a nice video shot in Berlin. Now it gets a new dimension in his remix featuring not one, not two but three rappers: Open Mike Eagle, Infinite Livez and McKinley Dixon.

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I’ll admit I knew nothing about Zamrock – the musical fusion that came out of Zambia in the 1970s. So I never heard WITCH in their heyday.

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Tony McPhee never achieved the fame and fortune of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page or Jeff Beck, his fellow British guitarists to emerge from Britain’s blues boom in the 1960s.

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We all need an invigorating dose of primal rage every now and then… don’t we? Coach Party certainly do – and enjoy letting it out. 

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