Song of the day – 123: Pulco
I’m a sucker for a Welsh accent. This is beautiful gentle funny and smart pastoral music, made by a fellow who’s played with Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Sebadoh, apparently. The entire album is fetching and beguiling and several other words that end in ‘ing’, and the harmonies sometimes remind me of Teenage Fanclub because they […]
Song of the day – 122: The Runaways
Just been to see the Runaways movie. It’s rubbish, but Kristen Stewart is totally hot playing a teenage Joan Jett wandering around in leather trousers the whole time (although still not as hot as the teenage Joan Jett was in real life). It’s way mawkish, the producers have clearly never been inside a small rock […]
Song of the day – 121: Byron Lee And The Dragonaires
I’ll be honest with you. This is the music that, nine times out of 10, we greet the new day with (this, and also, to a lesser extent, The Specials). It’s straightforward enough. We have a five-year-old, and a one-year-old. So we don’t need music that competes with them, which takes out all my old […]
Song of the day – 120: Afrirampo
Ah, bugger it all. I reported on the news of this incredible Japanese noise-pop duo’s split a few days back, and posted this video up then. But then I started worrying that some of you fine people might not have watched this video yet, and that really bothered me – the same way if I […]
Song of the day – 119: Lulu
Following on from my post about Sidney Poitier/Segun Bucknor, I had to post this… Here’s what I had to say about Lulu on my Record Rummage blog. LULU sings To Sir With Love (Epic, circa 60s) They don’t write sleeve notes like this anymore: “Most young girls do progress ‘from crayons to perfume’. It is a […]
Song of the day – 118: Segun Bucknor & His Revolution
Been watching Sidney Poitier’s 1961 tour de force, A Raisin In The Sun. (The original was the first play written by a black woman to debut on Broadway.) Damn, but it’s fine. Pride and anger and assimilationist issues and identity problem and ingrained racism and humour and despair and liquor and Nigerian pride and feminism […]
Song of the day – 117: The Bobby McGee’s
Love this band. One more reason to miss Brighton. Here’s what I wrote about them a while back. You need to be listening to this. It’s lifted my spirits so completely. I mean, it’s twee as fuck (to use the vernacular) but it’s a new form of twee, a new genre altogether – twee jazz. […]
Song of the day – 116: 5 String Drop Out
Via Facebook, dude sends me a link to some of his music. I like his music. I post a link to it here. That’s how it works. Simple, huh? He sent me the link to his music because a friend told him he should send me the link to his music. I listened to his […]
Song of the day – 115: Blessure Grave
Some dark Goth for you all. It’s the best imitation of Joy Division I’ve heard in around three decades – i.e it isn’t really an imitation of Joy Division at all. There again, they do call their new cassette Unknown Blessures. I’m not sure if I don’t detect the hand of my friend Nathan from […]
Song of the day – 114: Los Saicos
As someone wrote on YouTube underneath this clip, “Everything we used to know about rock and roll is false”. What can I say? Until a couple of hours I didn’t have the slightest idea who Peruvian underground 60s garage group Los Saicos were. Now, I can’t even begin to imagine how I got this far […]
