Some Diurnal Aural Awe

Collaborative Royalty This is a wonderful album of collaborations hosted by Canadian band Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. The guest list is ...

If a parachute school was to open next to my house just after midnight [which is when I would have had a few] I'm sure I'd be up for...

Trilogy As I've been referring today to contemporary rock bands I might as well make it a threesome and mention Rose Hill Drive who do...

Rock Genes Having posted about The Dallas Explosion and its 60s/70s rock lineage, along with Rival Sons, it won't be surprising to al...

Brussels Explosion This is brilliant. Based in Brussels, this would appear to be a young band who have assimilated all that is good from ...

People walk past the open gate then stop turn and look back into the flame, see me beyond in the garden chair and glow, and assuming I'm...

Troubadours: The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter I finished yesterday watching this documentary about Doug Weston's Troubadour club in We...

Blooded The ghost of Nico haunts beautifully opening track Storms That Breed , and the spooky instrumental psychedelia nails this echo to...

When the mosquito went to bite, the sweat on the chest was like a lake so it dived and skimmed then slipped away, taking perhaps comfort in ...

Just a Rascal Of course, rascal that I am, I didn't finish my marking today before listening to all three Rascals' albums mention...

Well, it seems only fair as I've mentioned her....

Eclectic Examining I've been listening to a wide variety of music today as I have also studiously and stoically soldiered on to finis...

Carpet This is simply the most lavish and lush, thickly woven and deeply filled, wall to wall multitracked vocal and orchestrated carpet ...

3. Fishing Did someone further down the Missouri snare my bamboo fishing pole, maybe by accident, and later when the river slowed and lowere...

2. Damp Patch He walks down the street, a damp patch on the trouser legs of each knee where he'd knelt in the borders tending to voluptu...

1. Cul-de-sac It's another suburban cul-de-sac and a grown man cycles home on his boy's bike, a full case of beer under one arm, and...

Harrowing Harmony My title overstates, but it allows me to more aptly refine my alliterative observation to the mesmerising melancholy of...

Fill Your Head With Rock - CBS Two Lp Sampler Choosing this as one of my top fifty albums is a cheat, but I'm Prospero over my musical w...

Clarence Clemons - January 11, 1942 – June 18, 2011 The picture says it all: Bruce looking to The Big Man with affection and respect. As Spr...

Adam Ant Seaside Tour - Exeter Phoenix, 17th June, 2011 Going to this gig reminded me of just how necessary live music is. Whilst variable f...