Today I must tip my imaginary Stetson to my pal Craig Poland Smith for unearthing this gem for me by the literally named family quartet Southern Raised.

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Summer’s here (and some!). So here’s a soundtrack for these long sunny days. Two hours of pleasure, opening up with The Prodigy, fresh from their Glastonbury triumph, and ending with Kim Gordon bidding us farewell as she gets ready for a holiday. In between there’s a bit of everything: funk and soul, reggae and country, metal and jazz. Start the dance!

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…)

The EZ Band from Texas specialise in playing familiar pop hits in the traditional Norteño style – including this one by The Smiths.

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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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