1927 had a huge hit in their native Australia with their debut single, Eighties anthem That’s When I Think Of You.

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Another one gone: this time it’s Keith Dobson, aka Kif-Kif of Here & Now and World Domination Enterprises.

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I haven’t a clue whether this 1967 Dylan parody by The Hombres is meant to be taken seriously or not.

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Princess Nokia aims for the mainstream with a brand new electro anthem, Drop Dead Gorgeous, with a satirical video to match.

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I have no doubt that if I’d been born ten years earlier my favourite genre would have been freakbeat. So I would have loved The Golden Cups.

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Husband-and-wife schlager duo Cindy & Bert made arguably the best rock cover of all time with their reimagined version of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid… in German.

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Here’s another of those reggae deep cuts that passed me by at the time – and once again it’s by a female artist who flew under the radar. (more…)

This was probably the first Springsteen song I ever heard: it’s the opening track of his breakthrough album Born To Run. And still one of his best.

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Today I must tip my imaginary Stetson to my pal Craig Poland Smith for unearthing this gem for me by the literally named family quartet Southern Raised.

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I love a musical collaboration and this one is about as out-there as you could ever imagine – Jamaican roots reggae and Polish folk music.

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