The Remains made one of the best tunes to feature on the Nuggets anthology of ’60s garage rock, but never made a mainstream breakthrough.

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Horsegirl began life blending shoegaze and noise when they were teenage schoolgirls in Chicago. This is the opening song of their 2022 debut album. (more…)

Skinshape is a new name to me but I’ve enjoyed discovering their mostly instrumental blend of atmospheric trip-hop with ’60s and ’70s funk, reggae, soul and psych-rock.

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I was always put off listening to Viagra Boys because of their terrible band name. Which turns out to have been my loss.

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Ghost Woman make the kind of atmospheric, moody music that instantly appeals to me – slow and spacey, trippy and twangy, jangly and hazy.

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Valerie June breaks all the rules by taking on Mazzy Star’s unimprovable song Fade Into You and absolutely nails it.

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RIP Jerry Lee Lewis (1935-2022). Last of the rock’n’roll legends, The Killer might not have been the greatest of men but his musical legacy is peerless.

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Here’s a trio of songs for Christmas – one for opening the presents, another for after dinner at the end of the day, and one for Boxing Day.

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Alarming news – in my old age I may be starting to like jazz. Yes, I’m afraid a lifetime of jazzophobia may be under threat after I heard this dude, Yussef Dayes yesterday. On a sunny day on my car radio, his music blew my mind.

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If there’s going to be a soundtrack to the end of the world, then we could do a lot worse than this: Spitting Off The Edge Of The World by Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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