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Cate Le Bon’s poignant elegy for her recently deceased grandmother, Are You With Me Now?, is a melancholy gem from her 2013 album Mug Museum.
The Flamin’ Groovies relaunched themselves in the UK after a five-year hiatus in 1976 – supported by a new band called The Ramones.
Everything about this song screams “1979” – a transitional year when the first wave of punk was evolving into the New Wave and its various sub-genres: post-punk, power-pop, synth-pop.
Terry Reid was fated to be remembered much more for what he didn’t do than anything he did, forever immortalised as a kind of Zelig figure in pop.
I’m sure some people might dismiss The Warlocks as one of that band of Velvet Underground fetishists. But I don’t care – I love them too.
This song by one-hit wonders The Castaways is the archetypal Sixties garage song. I first heard it on the Nuggets compilation a decade or so after its original release in 1965. (more…)
I was initially resistant to the dance music takeover in the late Eighties and the replacement of guitars with laptops, synths and samplers. But I was converted by songs like Pump Up The Volume, S Express – and this.
I’ve loved Mexican music for a long time and the first time I heard it was on Ry Cooder’s 1976 album Chicken Skin Music. And the songs that stood out were the ones featuring the accordion of Flaco Jimenez.
I was late to the party with R.E.M. I didn’t really discover them until they put out their sixth album Green in 1988 and this song was a minor hit.