Tribute albums with a variety of bands doing covers of old favourites. I've been thinking, what makes some good and some awful. I've come...

In the mid-1990s, R.E.M. were arguably the biggest pop sensation on the planet, and this album, their tenth, was the fourth in a run of...

Back after a bit of an absence while we moved house and we start with a recent purchase. Mick Jones' first work after quitting The Clash...

Shane McGowan died yesterday. Given his lifestyle, it might surprise many that he reached 65, but a sad loss, nevertheless. From the very...

I bought this album at the time, and while I enjoyed it, I found subsequent albums more satisfying. I'm not sure the raw, jagged songs on...

Is this the first punk album? it's certainly an argument I've tried to make in the past, usually incoherently after a drink has been...

Now here's an admission. Echo and the Bunnymen were alright. They weren't the best thing Liverpool had produced since the Beatles, and in...

Bought on a whim for a quid in a charity shop, I was pleasantly surprised by this Newcastle band and played the album a few times when I...

Back at the time, Bristol's trip-hop first team were all the rage, and this album was a firm favourite. I suspect I might have been drawn...

In 1977, listening to John Martyn albums would have been very low on my to-do list, and it would be many years before I heard anything by...

One of my favourite jazz albums, yet to be reviewed is Miles Davis' In A Silent Way. A young guitarist from Doncaster, John McLaughlin...

Nick Lowe is most definitely a 'good thing'. Erstwhile bassist and songwriter with Brinsley Schwarz, go-to producer to get top tunes down...

Arto Lindsay is an American musician, who grew up in Brazil, and much of his music shows these dual influences. I've mentioned how I...

By 1980 The Jam had conquered all before them, and seemed to churn out great hit singles for fun. Following two absolute classic albums,...

I've just counted and I own 16 Neil Young CDs. Now I quite like a lot of Young's music but I'm no megafan and can only put this down to...

This one was a bit of a punt, that I don’t remember buying. I’m speculating that the album cover showing Kirk playing two saxes at once...

An ever-present album throughout my teenage years, even though I was only eleven when it was released. Every mid-seventies party would...

Joni Mitchell was 80 years old yesterday, so it seemed apt to look at one of her albums at last. Happy Birthday if you're reading, Joni....

Lapis Lazuli are a Canterbury band who seem not to have been active since 2020. There was a phase in the last decade with various bands...

I knew little about Leo Kottke, apart from having seen him on Old Grey Whistle Test a couple of times in the 1970s, and being aware of...