This one was bought in the time honoured way - sending a cheque for the required amount to Geoff of Probe Plus Records at Sydenham Avenue...

Like many of my age and background, I seem to recall that my first proper exposure to hip-hop was Grandmaster Flash and the Furious...

If you get too far down the Canterbury Sound rabbit hole, this is the sort of place it takes you. I'm pretty sure I picked it up of...

As part of getting to know jazz, I've picked up a couple of cheap, low budget compilations of the 'greats'. Clarinetist Benny Goodman...

This is the second of the Cure albums I picked up last week, as I try to visit the more mature music after the first two albums. What's...

Picked up for a couple of quid a few years back in the charity shop on the basis of "this looks interesting", I have listened to this a...

I loved the Cure's first two albums, but never really took much notice of them after that. I've no idea why. At various intervals over...

I bought this in a sale in the short-lived Soundhouse Records in Deal, just because it looked interesting. Cowpunk wasn't a genre I was...

I think I picked this up in a CD shop in Soho for a quid, having heard one track on a compilation that came free with a music magazine. I...

Originally released in two parts in 1979, Zappa's 'rock opera' Joe's Garage is a satire on everything from the music industry and sexual...

In the town where I was born, lived four lads who shook the world. Having decided a year or so ago (when I was 64 - I can keep this...

Continuing the charity shop haul from last week, is this 1957 Miles Davis album, playing with an orchestra conducted by, and music...

This is another charity shop purchase from last week, and like so many other names from the 1970s, Tangerine Dream is one name which has...

This is one of a number of CDs picked up from the local Oxfam shop last week, on a particularly fruitful visit. This was a Zappa album...

A recent buy from Oxfam in Market Harborough, who seem to have had a plethora of decent donations recently, as we'll find out over the...

I reviewed another one of Scott Cossu's CDs about two years ago , and recounted the tale of how a number of CDs from the US jazz label...

Otis Lee Crenshaw, is, of course US comedian Rich Hall's alter ego as a country and western singer, so the emphasis here is comedy,...

In 1989 I was too busy becoming a father for the first time, and living down south to take much notice of a group of young scallies from...

I bought this online many moons ago, keen to hear a collaboration between Costello and American jazz guitarist, Bill Frisell, recorded at...

What I know about Billy Childish could be written in one paragraph at the start of an uninspired review. He's a Medway based artist,...