There are many times when I really feel my age - but this last weekend, I really felt it on account of taking my daughter to look at her...

After focusing on my favourite drummers a few months back, this time it is all about the bass. The bass player is often the hardest...

They came. They conquered (a bit). They went away. They came back again (briefly). They disappeared again (possibly indefinitely).......

Yes, it's time for another playlist, and this time we are off to mainland Europe. Here we have ten more interesting (well, eleven...

Most songs written have fallen into one theme or another - there have been songs about love, day and night, good and bad, life and...

I have been listening to, and enjoying, the Talking Heads since the mid-80s - but it never occurred to me until very recently...... they...

It's the end of April, post number 193, and the second anniversary of this site. Incredibly, in that time, over 450 people have visited...

The next few weeks has a few fairly random anniversaries with one central connection - and that seemed a good enough reason for our next...

For this playlist it's time to delve back into the cupboard of cover versions. We all know there are plenty of terrible and mediocre...

It is often written that bands who put out a critically well received debut album, then face the daunting prospect of the 'dreaded second...

The history of Muscle Shoals as a hotbed of artistic creation is an interesting one, where one studio became two, and totally put this...

Is being a married couple in a band a good idea? Does it help with creativity, or lead to creative tension? Here are ten bands that...

Well, we've done all Irish playlists before, so for this March 17th we needed a new twist.... I know - we'll pick bands that have a...

Don't fret if you are an American reading this - we are not doing ten songs about the US taxman! This is I.R.S. Records, founded in 1979...

We were recently down in Bristol. We were wandering the back streets around St Pauls, a suburb immediately on the north side of the city...

We're a bit late in celebrating Chinese New Year, which fell on 10 February this year. But fret not - in addition to this year being the...

For some reason, I have always struggled to get to grips with poetry, which is perhaps somewhat strange considering the passion I have...

Scotland has always provided a rich source of musical pleasure over the decades, but Glasgow alone has produced myriad great bands,...

Depending on whether you were on the inside or outside of the band, Uncle Tupelo may have been one of the key architect's of what would...

It's time for another playlist for you. This one, for absolutely no reason at all, is linked to animals. So here you go - ten top tunes...