Whenever I profess to liking the music of a youngster under the age of 30, I worry they might become popular, like Ed Sheeran popular, sell ...

As mentioned at the end of last year, I've finally reached the age where I'm starting to appreciate Mr. Zimmerman more. Lately I...

Seeing as I got away with Taylor Swift the other week, here's something in similar vein. A Nashville singer-songwriter with one foot in ...

A few weeks back, the Algorithm decided I might like to listen to Bleachers. It wasn't a bad choice. For a computer that does my thinkin...

The latest album from Dawes has been a bit of a slow burner. I wasn't initially impressed with it enough to mention it in my year end co...

So there's a TV show on Netflix called Sex Education . I haven't watched it, despite the fact that it features Gillian Anderson. The...

I have a lot of time for Taylor Swift, but it's fair to say that when she stepped away from her country roots a few years back to become...

  As Alyson observed last week, my blogging time has been rather curtailed at the moment by work and lockdown pressures. A member of staff a...

  Happy New Year, we said.  2021 has got to be better than 2020, we laughed. Then 2021 laughed back. "Kids are going back to school,...

  Back to work today, and I don't even want to think about that as I type this on Friday evening... though it has blackened my thoughts ...

  Regular readers of this blog will probably find my choice for Album of the Year so, so predictable. Particularly anyone who remembers what...

  When I started this countdown a couple of weeks back, I did point out that the rankings were pretty arbitrary up to the Top 3, and that mo...

  Six years ago, Canadian singer songwriter Kathleen Edwards turned her back on a successful music career and opened a Ottawa coffee shop ca...

  Local lad and restraining order waiting to happen (such is my obsession) Simon Armitage became the Poet Laureate late last year. In betwee...

  A new Eels record was just what I needed as this sorry year drew to a close.  E even got a Mad Man to star in his latest video... Will we ...

  Jason Isbell cements his position as one of the best Americana songwriters currently working - at least when it comes to heartbreak. As us...

  I make no secret of my love of Huey Lewis, but that said... he hasn't made an essential album since the career-topping Fore! back in 1...

  I've banged on about my love of Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields plenty of times over the years, so I figured I'd let someo...

  I still haven't quite worked out how perennial English satirist, raconteur and Auteur Luke Haines ended up in collaboration with the g...

  In 30+ years of compiling year end lists of favourite records, this is the first time I've ever included a Bob Dylan record. Dylan pur...