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This is The Stranglers song Golden Brown as you’ve never heard it before – transformed into a slice of smooth jazz. And it’s wonderful.
It’s not often you hear people describe a guitarist who doesn’t generally do solos as one of the all-time greats. But countless other guitar greats gave that accolade to Steve Cropper.
Soft Cell’s biggest hit was the inevitable play-out song at the funeral of Dave Ball. It was never going to be anything else.
Jimmy Cliff was one of the first reggae singers to enjoy a hit single in the UK. And one of the outliers who turned Jamaica’s national music into a global sound.
I have to confess I didn’t know the singer of this Northern Soul favourite, Bobby Garrett, was the same ‘Bob’ in Bob & Earl, who sang the mega-hit Harlem Shuffle.
If you’d asked me what I thought about Demis Roussos, this would not spring to mind. I would not have answered with a king of disco.
Sex Mask are a young post-punk trio from Melbourne and this song, Blisters, finds them collaborating with another local band, Radio Free Alice.
Frank Wilson’s addictive stomper Do I Love You (Yes I Do) is considered an all-time Northern Soul classic today. But it remained unreleased for 14 years after it was recorded.
Doomgaze girls Blackwater Holylight blend doom-laden hard rock riffing with walls of psychedelic shoegaze on new song Heavy, Why?
Here is a beautiful melange of interesting jazz-adjacent sounds by Romanian pianist Mischa Blanos, a new name to me.