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  As I was driving to an appointment this morning, I was listening to the band James. I’ve been a fan of the band for a lo...

As the ancient Chinese curse apparently has it, “may you live in interesting times”. While sounding superficially like a blessing, of cour...

In the process of clearing out the 10,000 surplus emails in my inbox, I've come across another post that I wrote for someone else (in 20...

I've been writing album reviews for Leftlion magazine for the best part of ten years now.  It's fun to listen to something that y...

On the way to work this morning, I was listening to 6Music and they played the lead single off Morrissey’s new album, “ Spent the Day in ...

I don't know what's more troubling: that I find myself completely ignorant of almost all contemporary music, or the fact that I don...

I had a revelation this evening. I was listening to Father John Misty when it suddenly came to me that "Don't Stop Moving...

I stumbled across an interesting article today: “ Why British Men Never Got Over Oasis ”. What? Well, okay…. let’s give the man a list...

My wife is a fan of classical music in general, but she has a particular soft-spot for Mozart.  I like all sorts of music, but for some reas...

Back in the day, it was an iPod that was my first introduction to Apple.  It was one of those rare devices that absolutely and immediatel...

When we went to see Brian Wilson performing Pet Sounds the other night, I was in the somewhat unusual position of being well into the younge...

About six weeks ago, I decided that I'd take the next step at choir and sign up to sing a solo at a singposium.  This isn't an au...

Shamelessly copying Pete from Uborka , I’ve decided to do an album-by-album career retrospective of a band that have remained a musical t...

Apparently we’re in the middle of a vinyl revival. In 2015, it was the fastest growing musical format and accounted for 2% of all musical s...