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I'm feeling a lot of love for the Brighton-based Higher Love Recordings label, whose half dozen releases so far this year have been var...

A cultural tour de force from  Fra Lippo Lippi , taking in Norway, Italy and Camberwell in Surrey...all in less than four minutes! Shouldn...

Celebrating Stephen Luscombe , 29th October 1954 to 13th September 2025. I was very sad to read on Sunday of Stephen's passing after a l...

On the seventh day of the week, seven songs from Stevie Wonder . A companion piece of sorts to The O'Jays selection from a couple of we...

I was gearing up for a Saturday night of great live music in the company of Pama International , and a second chance to see the legendary  M...

Gorillaz ? Sparks ? Together on one song? How has this not happened before?! And, unsurprisingly, The Happy Dictator is a brilliant collabor...

I found this review of  Rattlesnakes (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) by  Lloyd Cole & The Commotions  that I wrote in February 2006, w...

Senegalese polymath  Tidiane Thiam released the  album  Africa Yontii in May 2024 on the fabulous Sahel Sounds label. Twelve months later,...

I still think of The Creatures as relatively recent, but in October it will be twenty two years since Siouxsie and Budgie released their ...

I bought the latest album from James Yorkston on Friday and it's been on repeat throuout the weekend. As the title suggests,  Songs For...