Oh, Jeez, no! I hope you don’t think she’s dead!? I’m pretty sure she’s not dead – still alive certainly in 2013, but nothing heard from since, and no music since 2007. I didn’t realize “dead” was a […]

Stina Nordenstam

This book addresses, to quote: “Precognition. The ability to sense or foresee future events before they happen. From the stage in Vladislav Hall, Katherine had recounted some of history’s most famous instances o […]

I am quite interested in this subject. It is fascinating because there are definitely two Buzzcocks. There is Pete Shelley Buzzcocks and there is Steve Diggle Buzzcocks and only one of those two is beloved of a […]

1. Sun on the Square by The Innocence Mission
Two rare public appearances to look out for, one at Paste Magazine (https://youtu.be/CDH3wqNef70), and the other a Tiny Desk Concert […]

So, you get misty eyed for Buffalo Springfield, and Neil’s been shovelling terrible shit out of his barn for the last few decades.

The last few decades? What, a generous thirty years? So it’s a big thumbs up […]

D’you know what? I rather like it.

It’s fifty minutes long, but those fifty minutes were suddenly over, and I had to go back and listen to it all again. Perhaps it was the absolute certainty that it was going to […]

Get the original soundtrack and listen to that instead – from beginning to end it is excellent. The film, not so much. The soundtrack is the best of the film distilled down to forty minutes.

The soundtrack allows […]

So, went to see them at the Junction 2 in Cambridge (ace venue, btw) with my daughter (12 – her first gig proper) and I would grade it an all-round success. It was her dad’s music after all, which she was familiar […]

Thank you so much for your reply, Anton – very reassuring. I’ll take the ear-plugs just in case but you have relieved me of some unnecessary stress.

We do have a clutch of guitars in the house – one small one […]

Thanks for this review. I’m going to see Honeyblood at the Cambridge Junction on Monday.

From a practical point of view…I half-heartedly tossed out, “Wanna come with?” to my twelve-year-old daughter, and […]

Ripely Pine by Lady Lamb (aka Aly Spaltro). If you like the poetry, this girl’s got it; if you like the storytelling, check.

It’s quite difficult not to fall in love with her while watching this:

I’m due to see them at Cambridge Junction on the 27th. Never seen them live; loved them since I was thirteen. It’s only taken me 38 years.