November 1st and 2nd is a holiday period particularly important in Mexico - known in Spanish as el Dia de Muertos or el Dias de los...

With a family member currently visiting us from the Lone Star State - what better time to pull together another great playlist for you....

We haven't done one of these for a while, so it is high time we roll out another bunch of interesting cover versions. Some people can get...

I first became aware of this interesting character when I watched Penelope Spheeris' 1981 LA punk documentary, Decline Of Western...

Earlier today (29 September), the Great Britain baseball team beat Germany to reach the final of the European Championships - a great run...

So, another musical icon from Liverpool passed on this week. While he had an association with the Cavern Club scene of the 1960s, it was...

Fifty years ago this week, violent upheaval led to the overthrow of a regime and the untimely murder of a cultural icon (along with...

Following on from the 'hidden' treasure trove of Australian songwriters you may not know... Here is my (somewhat) definitive Aussie...

For those of you of a certain age, you might think that Australian songwriting begins and ends with Nick Cave, Colin Hay (Men At Work),...

Well, since I have been boring the rest of my family rigid this last week, by watching an hour or two of the World Athletics Championship...

And so we continue. With things still somewhat of a struggle, we are keeping on with our series of decade playlists. This time we roll...

The mood in the Birds That Are Blue camp is still requiring an uplift. So we will continue with our theme of playlists by the decade -...

I felt the need to keep the good vibes going from last weeks Ultimate 60s playlist - so it seemed natural to move on a decade. Here is my...

I was in the middle of putting a completely different post together the other day, but it was quite a dark one, and after a rough couple...

I thought , since it is Glastonbury weekend, we needed to celebrate the world's greatest music festival with some kind of playlist. But...

One of the joys of Calexico is that they constantly offer up a wide range of flavours in their music - folk, country, rock, americana,...

No-one will believe when I say that it wasn't that recent low-key event in London that put this theme in my mind, but rather that I heard...

We salute Neil Mullane Finn, one of the pop world's great songwriters, who turns 65 today. He was born in Te Awamutu, on the north island...

Time for something a little different. I thought I would take a look at music through a different lens this time - using what I do as a...

I'm a little late to my own first anniversary party! It was actually last week, but we had to celebrate Willie Nelson's 90th birthday...