The Garage, Highbury, London - Saturday 23 August 2025 Is this a covers band or tribute act, or something greater than that? The fact...

Last week saw us embark on operation 'distract our daughter from exam results day'* - with a trip to the cinema. I hadn't set foot in a...

This day forty years ago (10 June 1985), was a transitional day for one of America's rapidly developing and emerging key bands, as its...

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,...

Last night, the four original members of R.E.M. were back together one more time, receiving their induction into the Songwriter's Hall of...

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...

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...

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

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...

On this day in 1958, Michael Edward Mills was born in Orange County, California. He would go on to be the bass player in perhaps one of...

So, everyone's gone through a period where they really wished they could drum in a rock band; where they've been sitting in a pub and...

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

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 -...

For this geographically themed playlist, we are going, somewhat topically, given that it is the current centre of US political focus - to...

Well, it's getting to that time of year where it is tending to get a bit damp and dribbly outside - so what better way to mark that than...

I think I can be fairly confident in calling this playlist Covers 1, in that there will almost certainly be at least a part 2. If nothing...

There have been many musicians over time, that are indelibly associated with a particular artist, as a well known side person; Mick...