After fully embracing the blues in our first playlist of 2025, reflecting on what a dismal, torturous month January can be - now we look...

January is a time, at least for much of the northern hemisphere, for huddling together for warmth, wondering when you will next see more...

Well, I think we can all agree that was definitely a year.... I'll leave it up to you to decide whether it was good or bad - for me it...

Now, I am generally not one to embrace the festivities - but tis the season, and all that! Like my daughter's college buses - you wait...

It's that time of year again. The weather in the northern hemisphere has grown colder, the nights are longer than the days, and I try and...

Most people have trouble naming the capital cities of more than a handful of countries - but what about US State capitals? Well, most...

Well, right here in the heart of the Northern Hemisphere, as October heads warily towards November, it is clear that we are entering...

There have been two waves of musical greatness from the city at the western end of the M62 motorway (Liverpool, obvs), first in the early...

A couple of things this last week - one a sadly unfolding saga of a band crumbling in front of our eyes, the other a very specific (and...

It is time for another of our geographically themed playlists - and this time we focus on the large, mysterious continent of Africa....

It was a random song on a playlist I had on in the car yesterday that I hadn't heard in a while, coupled with the fact that there were...

As another wonderful summer Olympiad draws to a close, it seems only fitting that we mark it with a playlist - and I think that this...

It used to be assumed that decent cover versions were few and far between - but the fact that we are now on to our fifth set of covers,...

It is hard to believe, but somewhere around this day thirty years ago (yes, really), I attended my university graduation ceremony! I...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...