Music
Sparks star in a typically entertaining and eccentric video opposite Rebecca Taylor (aka Self Esteem) for their new single Porcupine.
Nancy Sinatra didn’t know the hidden meaning behind Sugar Town, the seemingly sweet song she was first given to sing by Lee Hazlewood back in 1966.
The days are growing shorter, the nights are drawing in and, as Jim Morrison put it, Summer’s Almost Gone. So what better way to start a September playlist than with The Doors’ elegiac tune? And what better way to end it than with that Adrian Sherwood remix of Saint Etienne? In between there’s everything from vintage rockabilly and folk to fingerpicking guitar and French hip-hop, and tributes to those we lost in September, from Supertramp, Blancmange and Pentangle to Robert Redford.
A “new” T. Rex song from 1975 is released to mark what would have been the 78th birthday of Glam idol Marc Bolan.
For more than 60 years Danny Thompson was the go-to guy for anyone in need of a double bass player.
Andrew Weatherall reimagines Saint Etienne’s cover of Neil Young’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart with his dubwise Mix Of Two Halves.
Suzi Quatro and Chris Norman teamed up for a Glam double-act when they sang this catchy Chinnichap number, Stumblin’ In.
The first time I heard (of) Water From Your Eyes was in 2024 when they recorded this cover of Warm Storm, a song by Howe Gelb of the band Giant Sand.
John Foxx made his solo debut after three albums as front man of Ultravox! with this pioneering electro single.