Author: Alex Deley

Song of the Day: Lou Reed “I Love You, Suzanne”

Lou Reed came out swinging with his infectious 1984 single, the neo-rockabilly number “I Love You, Suzanne”.

Categories: Blog, music, rock, Song of the Day Tags: Lou Reed, music, robert quine, rock, rock 'n' roll, song of the day

Jah Wobble teams up with The Edge and Holger Czukay to craft some brilliant left field boogie on “Hold On To Your Dreams”.

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers absolute tear it up on this incandescent read of Dizzy Gillespie‘s “A Night in Tunisia”.

Japanese electronic music pioneer, Haruomi Hosono, merges international music influences with acid house on the insistent, “Laugh-Gas”.

“Carcrash” is a bouncing dance track from Factory Records stalwarts and first wave UK post-punk group, Section 25.

Mogwai‘s “Ether” is an once a warmly exhilarating and slightly existentially chilling soundtrack to a film about the birth of the atomic age.

Categories: Blog, indie, music, Song of the Day, soundtrack Tags: indie, Mark Cousins, Mogwai, music, post rock, song of the day, soundtrack

Aimee Mann turns in a gorgeous read of “The Other End Of The Telescope” (co-written with Elvis Costello), plus 2 other versions of the song!

Ryuichi Sakamoto‘s title theme to the ‎Nagisa Ôshima 1983 POW drama, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence strikes a hopeful note for the holidays.

With his 1983 single, “In The Mood”, Robert Plant appeared to have embraced the ’80s without quite letting go of the Led Zeppelin legacy.

Categories: Blog, music, rock, Song of the Day Tags: music, Robbie Blunt, Robert Plant, rock, song of the day

Ichiko Hashimoto delivers a wonderfully bent alt-punk read of read of her own French language should-be classic, “Naja Naja”.