In League With Paton

There's suddenly really rather a lot to get through, especially as we're now entering the peak period for album releases before it a...

Back in 1997, when I was 16 and maybe a little too in awe of Spiritualized's magnum opus 'Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Sp...

Oh well. Just when you think you have the Mercury Judges sussed, they return to blatant populism, and The Arctic Monkeys are confirmed as 20...

Bob Dylan's 'Modern Times' That title is loaded with mischievous irony. 'Modern Times', like 'Love and Theft' be...

I'm becoming very bored with the current focus on singer-songwriters, and the rather lazy clustering of musicians with completely differ...

...Love, sweet love? Well, it would certainly help - but does the world really need another 'best of' compilation from R.E.M.? In fa...

Well it certainly blessed us with a fantastic Grand Prix (just when it was most needed), and the rain in London this weekend has mercifully ...

My Dad often bemoans the lack of committed political protest songs these days. I'll certainly concede that you're unlikely to hear a...

Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche Not content with setting himself the surely unachievable goal of recording an album for every US State, Sufja...

I really need to do something with the Links section of this blog. As a useful resource, it's fast becoming obsolete. A lot of the URLs ...

What a great weekend! In this stifling heat, it was good to get away to coastal Wales (for the Aberystwyth Arts Festival), where it was stil...

Sorry, a bit late with the news, but just in case anyone out there doesn't already know - these are this year's Mercury Nominations:...

All my own opinion, not work related etc etc.... In an extraordinary spirit of generosity, when one of my colleagues handed me a copy of Raz...

Deciding an album of the year for 2006 is going to be a particularly tricky task. We’ve already had highly worthy contenders from TV On The ...

A good description of some of Haruki Murakami's best novels, which apparently can be useful props when trying to impress the object of y...