This is the highlight of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ 15th album, Push The Sky Away – their first without Mick Harvey, but with the return of Barry Adamson. (more…)

Dead Pioneers are a Native American punk band making radically political music about white people’s perceptions and misconceptions of indigenous peoples.

(more…)

Whatever we expected from Pete Shelley’s solo debut in 1981, after a string of superlative singles by Buzzcocks, a queer synthpop anthem came as a surprise.

(more…)

Here’s one of the great one-hit wonders. And a song that would pop into my head at random points whenever I was – you guessed – Drinking In L.A.

(more…)

I loved this song when it came out in 1980. I suppose synth-pop was a novelty at the time; it was certainly not something I associated with Robert Palmer, famed for his blue-eyed soul singing, sharp suits and model girlfriends.

(more…)

I have to admit that, like most others, I was initially attracted to this tune by its sampling of Lou Reed’s Walk On The Wild Side. But there was much more to the New York rappers than that – though Reed got all the money and the teenage rappers never saw a penny.

(more…)

DJ Shadow teamed up with rap duo Run The Jewels on Nobody Speak, one of the standout tracks from his 2019 comeback album.

(more…)

Dwight Yoakam came along at just the right time for me, in the mid Eighties, launching a lifelong love of country music.

(more…)

Back when punk and reggae were rebel bedfellows, I discovered this deep cut – thanks to Johnny Rotten. I still can’t find out much about it.

(more…)

Blimey! I had no idea The Kinks ever sounded like this. I’ve never heard it before, though seven million others seem to have watched it on YouTube.

(more…)