Another recent purchase. I didn't really need another Dead Kennedys CD, but it looked lonely in the Oxfam Shop. There's no surprises...

Nine Inch Nails are the brainchild of Trent Reznor. That was the sum total of my knowledge of the band before buying this at a charity...

Despite my teenage (and beyond) love of the so-called 'Canterbury Sound', it was a complete coincidence that I ended up living for 40...

This was the first Banshees album I owned (pretty much as soon as it came out), but I've listened to their first one, The Scream far more...

In 1978 it was "God save the Queen, she ain't no human bein'". Forty years on, Sons Of Kemet make a similar statement with more subtlety...

I pretty much got up to speed with all of Steely Dan's albums while at university, yet this, their final album before a 20 year album...

I had never heard of Silver Apples until this was the featured album on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone. I hadn't heard anything like it, and...

I first came across Joe Zawinul in my teens when a friend lent me a Weather Report album, and certainly wasn't aware of his pedigree in...

OK, I'll fess up. When I bought this cheap on Ebay earlier this month, I thought I was buying their first Cherry Red album Degenerates. I...

I hadn't heard of Sauna Youth until they appeared on Marc Riley's All Shook Up, under the name Monotony, performing the song of the same...

The Ruts were just one of the host of second division punk bands around at the end of the 1970s, who churned out a couple of decent...

At the time I had Rush written off as one of those annoying metal bands from across the Atlantic, loved by people whose hair was longer...

Cale and Reed hadn't spoken for years until Andy Warhol's memorial service in 1987, but made enough of a connection to want to work...

I've never really liked classical music as a genre (yes, I know the term classical music is as broad a term as music). I've never liked...

I first heard Rundgren in the early 1970s, I Saw The Light being a song I liked, and that seemed to be played only on pirate radio and...

In 1980, Gong's Daevid Allen was at a loose end, and found himself in New York, hooking up with former Gong champion and producer Giorgio...

Karl Wallinger died earlier this week, far too young at 66. I'm not too familiar with his music, really only through one unconvincing...

One album wonders - bands and artists who recorded one album only. This NME article lists its top 21 of these, and there are many which...

This one is deep into the Canterbury Sound rabbit hole. Pip Pyle, who sadly died in 2006, aged 56, was drummer with Gong, Hatfield And...

John Lydon has been in the news today, doing some public racism for attention. But it's nicer to think of the times when he was relevant,...