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...

Tonight and tomorrow night at the Hollywood Bowl, an array of musical stars that spans many eras and genres, will come together to...

As we approach the first anniversary of this website, I thought I would take a look at one of the acts that ties in with one of the main...

So, there are songs with made up names in them and there are songs about real people that the wider world won't know (parents, ex-lovers...

With the children away on a school trip in northern Italy - we search the snowy slopes of the Italian Alps and beyond for inspiration for...

Sixty years ago this month, legendary country star Patsy Cline lost her life in a plane crash. This story is about her, and the...

The Muppet Show became a 'must have' on any self respecting celebrities checklist. It was always labelled a family show, but we all knew...