Few songbooks so consistently capture the post-2016 sense of life coming apart as Jeff Rostenstock’s poppy humanist punk.
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15 short films about Oasis
A few further reflections on Oasis after the reunion.
The Hold Steady and the story of 21st century America
A delayed 20th anniversary piece on The Hold Steady’s seminal 2005 album Separation Sunday, an album and band that, their way, tell the story, private, public and political, of 21st century American life.
Cool Calm Pete – Heart
The final song of a criminally underrated Korean-American indie rapper.
Billy Bragg
My workplace Crikey held a fascinating and invigorating interview with singer-songwriter and activist Billy Bragg last night. Bragg has written a handful of the songs that mean the most to me in all the world, and he everything you’d hope, talking with wit, optimism and clear-eyed scepticism about empathy, music, politics and going to Glastonbury …
Pat Thomas Introduces Marijata
Pat Thomas, The “Golden Voice of Africa” has had a career that spans more than 50 years. In that time, he’s turned his hand to a seemingly endless array of genres – Big Band, Reggae, Soul, Disco and Funk – but he’s a true master of Highlife. Highlife originated in Thomas’ native Ghana in the …
Youth, Pop, and “Surf Music”
On a singular and lovely (in baffling sort of way) album by comedian Paul Willliams
Lyrical Wax: Yvonne Fair The Bitch is Black
A lost funk masterpiece from a woman who was present at many of the key moments of 20th century soul.
Gerry Marsden
Farewell to the reedy accented voice behind one of the 1960s great anthems.
MF DOOM
Farewell MF DOOM, the first and last of his kind
Dancing to Architecture 