What I love most about Bonita Applebaum is that it’s musically a hybrid of reggae, jazz and hip-hop – and even a sitar sample.

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Happy Birthday Bob! Today Dylan turns 85 so I’m posting one of his numerous all-time classics from back in 1965.

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A Tribe Called Quest laid down a marker as one of the more original and eclectic voices in hip-hop with 1990 single Bonita Applebaum.

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Hot Chocolate’s only No.1 sums up my joyful feelings this morning after the league title returned to North London for the first time in 22 years.

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Gwen McCrae is best known as the Queen of Rare Groove for her much-sampled repertoire of funk and soul. And her accidental role in launching disco.

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This is my new favourite duet. Which is quite something considering I’m not a fan of Aussie punksters Amyl & The Sniffers.

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The Allman Brothers hit their instrumental peak with In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, recorded for their 1971 album Live At Fillmore East.

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Free were in the vanguard of the blues-rock revolution that chnged the face of British music in the late 1960s.

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This is my favourite track on my favourite live album, recorded by The Velvet Underground in 1969 at a San Francisco club called The Matrix.

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Anika has carved out a niche as a kind of modern-day Nico, bringing glacial cool to her dub-infused electro music.

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