This was the first single The Impressions released with Curtis Mayfield as lead singer. (more…)

This song by Bristol-based reggae revivalists The Co-Operators is sadly relevant to what’s going on around the world today. I really wish it wasn’t.

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Australian indie-folksters Frente! released this very different take on a New Order favourite on their 1994 EP Labour Of Love.

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Cate Le Bon’s poignant elegy for her recently deceased grandmother, Are You With Me Now?, is a melancholy gem from her 2013 album Mug Museum.

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The Flamin’ Groovies relaunched themselves in the UK after a five-year hiatus in 1976 – supported by a new band called The Ramones. 

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Everything about this song screams “1979” – a transitional year when the first wave of punk was evolving into the New Wave and its various sub-genres: post-punk, power-pop, synth-pop.

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Terry Reid was fated to be remembered much more for what he didn’t do than anything he did, forever immortalised as a kind of Zelig figure in pop.

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I’m sure some people might dismiss The Warlocks as one of that band of Velvet Underground fetishists. But I don’t care – I love them too.

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This song by one-hit wonders The Castaways is the archetypal Sixties garage song. I first heard it on the Nuggets compilation a decade or so after its original release in 1965. (more…)