As much as I firmly believe you should never mess with perfection, I’ll make allowances for Motörhead taking on The Damned’s song Neat Neat Neat because they had the good grace to team up with them.

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Here’s a song from 1971 that I’ve never heard before by an artist I’ve never heard of before – Christopher Blue.

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Sparks star in a typically entertaining and eccentric video opposite Rebecca Taylor (aka Self Esteem) for their new single Porcupine.

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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.

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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.

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Rick Davis, co-founder, co-vocalist, co-songwriter and keyboard player in prog giants Supertramp, died in September 2025.

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For more than 60 years Danny Thompson was the go-to guy for anyone in need of a double bass player.

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Andrew Weatherall reimagines Saint Etienne’s cover of Neil Young’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart with his dubwise Mix Of Two Halves.

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Suzi Quatro and Chris Norman teamed up for a Glam double-act when they sang this catchy Chinnichap number, Stumblin’ In.

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