Magazine’s debut album Real Life is one of the defining moments of post-punk. The original Buzzcocks singer tired quickly of the primitive pop that brought us the brilliant Spiral Scratch EP and went off in search of pastures new as early as February 1977.

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Blues legend John Lee Hooker stretched out his already lengthy I Hate(d) The Day I Was Born to nearly 20 minutes in San Francisco in 1964.

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Rewind to 1975 and here’s an infectious tune by Max Romeo, one of reggae’s great survivors – still performing at the age of 78.

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The Bug Club are a lo-fi garage pop group from Wales and their latest single is this insanely catchy lo-fi anthem, Out In The Streets.

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Is this the most Australian thing you’ve ever seen and heard? I remember it from the time but I’m still laughing at the video, which went viral in 2017 because… well, watch it and you’ll see.

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The Rose City Band are the country-flavoured side project of Wooden Shjips duo Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada. This druggy animated road video certainly captures the woozy mood of their laid-back country-fried boogie.

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A soothing blend of punk, funk and country seasoned with soul and reggae, and tributes to the month’s dead – Gordon Lightfoot, Tina Turner, Linda Lewis and Andy Rourke of The Smiths.

Not sure if the term Aussie’n’Western is a thing, but if it is then The Paper Kites are a prime example.

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Tina Turner’s career might never have got started if a backing singer had not failed to turn up for a recording session of this song in 1960.

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