Music today comes from Nederbeat heroes Q65 rediscovering themselves as they enter the seventies. It keeps their energy and has something of The Kinks meets Eric Burdon at The Stones’ house, still a little stuck in their heyday stylistically. The album is called Afghanistan and is supposed to be their more Psychedelic period but that […]

Music today was The Spencer Davis Group’s first two albums and these albums inspired by the Blues and R&B are sung by the incredibly talented Steve Winwood who was 14 when he joined the band. You might not even like this kind of music but Steve Winwood’s voice is something else. Songs Of The Daze […]

Music today comes from my original copy of a record coming to RSD this weekend, Booker T. & the M.G.’s McLemore Avenue, originally released in 1970 (I have the original Stax release). It’s an instrumental tribute inspired by Booker T. Jones after he heard Abbey Road and showing his admiration for The Beatles’ continued musical […]

Music today has to be Bob Dylan because we need to record one of his songs, long story, I’ll tell you all about it at the end rather than the beginning. I started off listening to random tracks on Spotify but I soon wanted to hear a complete album and picked Bringing It All Back […]

Music today was The Moon And The Melodies (November 1986), a collaboration between Harold Budd and members of Cocteau Twins that features ethereal effected pianos from Budd and ethereal effected guitars from Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde played bass with Elizabeth Fraser’s otherworldly voice intoxicating the listener. Richard Thomas of 4AD label mates Dif Juz also […]

Music today comes from that lovely band The Sundays (of course) and their debut Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. They haven’t made a record since 1997. There were signs of slowing down from the beginning. It was five years between their 2nd album Blind and their third album Static And Silence, it’s now been 23 years. […]