Wanda Jackson’s take on the Carl Perkins tune is the eponymous song that closes the credits of Ethan Coen’s new film Honey Don’t.

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The Fall perform the opening song from their final album for Beggars Banquet, the dance number Dead Beat Descendant.

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Saint Etienne took Neil Young’s wistful song from After The Gold Rush and gave it a dance makeover to create a classic indie-dance comedown lament.

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Clock DVA, more than anyone except perhaps their fellow travellers Cabaret Voltaire, reflected the industrial heartbeat of Sheffield. Literally so.

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Country Joe & The Fish is a name I remember hearing in my youth, though I don’t remember hearing any of their records.

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I don’t normally like this sort of thing but Slady – the all-female Slade tribute band – are just brilliant, right down to the sandpaper rasp of “Gobby Holder.”

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In the late Seventies, after The Saints lit the fuse of Australian punk with their classic single (I’m) Stranded, they were followed to the UK by Radio Birdman.

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Clean Up Woman is one of the greatest soul songs of all time, recorded by Betty Wright when she was only 17. I’m amazed I’ve not posted it before. (more…)

Tony Clarke never had a big hit in his lifetime but is revered here for one of the biggest Northern Soul favourites of all time – Landslide. (more…)

Today marks the 54th birthday of one of the UK’s finest musicians, Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin.

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