No musical advent calendars this year - too much work, too little reward. But there's always this, from Aidan Moffat: the perfect metaph...

Not all Blue Friday tunes sound maudlin on first listen - they're not all minor key, slow contemplative spirals. Take today's: You G...

Without further ado, here are the answers last week's lyrics quiz . These are the lyrics as I hear them, so if they're wrong, sorry,...

Forgotten how good this is, especially in its long-form, unexpurgated version. Also that it was used in the soundtrack of American Beauty , ...

I've been writting this in my head for a while, and Rol's recent Embarrassing Dad Songs theme gave me the kick I needed to turn tha...

At the time there were a lot of column inches about Squire's guitar heroics and the quality (or otherwise) of Brown's singing, but t...

Terrorvision were/are a funny one. Even in their heyday, I can't say I was much of a fan. Easy to forget, now, that they were a heavy ro...

I'm all out of posts, so am recycling something I did once before that was semi-popular (for me, at least - all things are relative). ...

In which I continue to haemorrhage readers... I don't know much about Maurice Ravel, to be honest, aside from the one thing everyone my...

The Royston Club are not from the Hertfordshire market town of the same name. In fact, the four-piece are from Wrexham, and have been plying...