Everybody knows the Jackson brothers but not so many know their near-namesakes, the Brothers Johnson. (more…)

As Russia invades Ukraine, here’s a message for all the world, conveyed in the lockdown video shot at home by Sharon Van Etten and Josh Homme. (more…)

Here’s a song by one of rockabilly’s revered elder statesmen that just makes you want to get up and dance, whatever music you like.
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Philip Rambow Trio: London – live review

Geordie soul boy Eric Burdon teamed up with California funksters War to make this idiosyncratic cover of a Rolling Stones song. (more…)

Gary Brooker was the Hackney-born pianist and singer with Britain’s originators of progressive rock, Procol Harum. (more…)

Liverpool band The Yachts became the UK’s prototype for Power Pop as punk evolved into the New Wave. (more…)

L.A.Witch are a kind of psychedelic surfer stoner trio who sound like the Jesus & Mary Chain might have done if they’d come from the Valley instead of a high-rise council estate outside Glasgow. (more…)

Here’s a bit of history… the first time Deep Purple ever appeared on TV. It was 1968, they chose a Beatles song, and they seem to be on a roof top. Dunno where that idea came from. (more…)